by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
This week I’ve tuned into lots of online chatter about the purpose of blogging. How do we reflect? How do we share? Where are the conversations? What technology makes reflection easier? In the back of my mind for some time, has been this piece by Dean Shareski: I Don’t Read Your Blog It made me […]
“The balance between leading and learning is essential.” (Fullan 2017, p. 62) Back in early December, we met with our Assistant Principals in Western Region (NLESD) to talk about Learning Leadership. We shared that Learning Leadership was an essential approach to effective practice in schools. The feedback from that event was that overwhelmingly, the biggest […]
On this last day of 2017, I am going back over my year of learning. The purpose of this post is mainly to help me reflect, and to organize my work into one place for easy access. If you are reading this, I invite you to take a quick look at some of the topics […]
Today our Programs Leaders took time to dig into the work of Stephen Katz and Lisa Ain Dack (Intentional Interruption, 2013). Here are some of the resources we looked at today. We began by examining our own definitions of learning from our earlier work together this year, and then considering the idea that learning is […]
This week, in #nled, principals in the Western Region are meeting f2f. At one of our sessions, we are learning about the connections between the networked lives of our students, and their mental health. The slides for the session are shared below. Thanks, in particular, to Dr. Alec Couros for posting his slides on Slideshare. […]
This week, in the Learning About Learning Newsletter, we are looking at resources shared this week around the purpose of school (in 2017), and the debates that are framing our pedagogical decisions. The purpose of the newsletter is to share some of the key conversations among educators on social media, including the readings that contribute […]
