Tag: engagement

A Common Understanding of Engagement

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on A Common Understanding of Engagement#essentialconversations, Allison Tucker, engagement, literacy, Regie Routman, Stephen Hurley

Participate on Twitter using the #essentialconversations hashtag.  Join the Twitter chat Thursday March 14, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. Newfoundland time,  and don’t miss Episode 2, Thursday, March 21, 2019 Newfoundland time (First day of spring!) on VoicEd Radio.  Please join in! When we speak of student engagement, what are we really talking about? What is our shared understanding of “engagement” in the context of school and learning? What is the at the heart of the word “engagement”? According to Regie Routman, engagement is different […]

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Essential Conversations

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Essential Conversations#essentialconversations, Allison Tucker, engagement, literacy, Regie Routman, Stephen Hurley, Stephen Katz, VoicED Radio

Why should you participate? Teachers matter. “If we really want to impact on student learning and achievement, we do it through the quality of classroom instruction and practice. That there is in fact no single bigger predictor of student learning and achievement than the quality of classroom instruction that kids are exposed to.” Dr. Stephen […]

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A Profound Shift: Seeing Children as Capable and Competent

Donna Miller Fry2 Comments on A Profound Shift: Seeing Children as Capable and Competent#nled, #nledDPAG, #npdl, belief, deep learning, Donna Miller Fry, Dr. Jean Clinton, engagement, hope, Michael Fullan, SHAD, Valmont Academy

“This is a profound shift to view the child as a capable, competent, rich in potential rights-bearing individual rather than as an empty vessel waiting to be filled.” Dr. Jean Clinton How do we shift our image of the learner? Recently I had the privilege to listen to Hailey Noseworthy, a Grade 12 student from […]

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Sharing Deep Learning

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Sharing Deep Learning#deeplearning, #nledDPAG, #npdl, engagement, makerspace

Recently, several Principals from our Director’s Principal Advisory Group (DPAG, #nledDPAG) travelled to New Brunswick to observe and learn about examples of #NPDL – New Pedagogies for Deep Learning.  Today they shared their observations with us. Ryan Kelley: When we visited schools in New Brunswick to see Deep Learning in action, some of the things […]

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Flourishing

Donna Miller Fry5 Comments on Flourishing#5Days5Words, #nled, #nledDPAG, change, collaboration, engagement, flourish, learn

What do you need to flourish? For me, 7 hours of quality sleep in fresh air, freshly ground coffee, and a morning run are a perfect start.  Fresh food, great books, interesting and caring friends, love and laughs with family, sloppy kisses from a chocolate lab puppy – these all contribute to the feeling of […]

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Learning Leadership is Like Sauerkraut

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Learning Leadership is Like Sauerkraut@djakes, @giuliaforsythe, @plugusin, #nled, #nledDPAG, engagement, Pak Tee Ng

Sauerkraut, it it’s day, was a major innovation that saved thousands of lives – the lives of sailors who ate sauerkraut and didn’t get scurvy.   In fact, without sauerkraut, James Cook may never have made it to my current home town of Corner Brook, NL. Sticking with that food theme, we know that most […]

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From Rich Task Projects to Rich Task Teaching

Donna Miller Fry1 Comment on From Rich Task Projects to Rich Task Teachingcollaboration, engagement, Rich Tasks, TLLP

Today I was invited to work with a group of teachers who are trying to implement rich tasks into their practice. They have spent some time defining a rich task by carefully considering the categories of characteristics, including global competencies. Some of these characteristics include: Multiple entry points Opportunities for enrichment and remediation (such as […]

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Where’s the Beef? – 6/10

Donna Miller Fry6 Comments on Where’s the Beef? – 6/10@fryed, #abed, #onted, #uLead15, Andy Hargreaves, engagement, Eric Sheninger, George Couros, learning, ossemooc, visible learning

When we talk about “Visible Learning” and “Visible Thinking”, can we now focus more on the Thinking and Learning than on the Visible? This post is part of a 10 day posting challenge issued by Tina Zita. You can’t be a connected educator if you don’t contribute. Sometimes we need a nudge to remember that […]

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“Engagement” is a Low Bar

Donna Miller Fry2 Comments on “Engagement” is a Low BarBill Ferriter, David Jakes, empowerment, engagement, George Couros, Innovator, learn, Mark W Carbone

Have you ever experienced so much learning that your head hurts? Tonight, amid the beautiful sunset, the lightning show and the Perseid Meteor Shower, many educators are reflecting and thinking about today’s amazing learning at #CATC15.   I started to write some notes about today’s learning, but why should I hide those ideas away in […]

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Disrupting Content Delivery in Ontario

Donna Miller Fry1 Comment on Disrupting Content Delivery in Ontario@fryed, #elADSB, #eLonted, #GEDSBLead, collaboration, connect, Donna Fry, eLearn, eLearning, engagement, George Couros, mindset, online community, online learning, Ontario, technology, visible learning

We have come a long way in Ontario from the idea that eLearning required a “learning management system” to deliver content, to the understanding that building relationships is at the centre of all learning (f2f or at a distance).   As we work with eLearning teachers through their collaborative inquiries into best practice, I often […]

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