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Learning from Learners
Elevating Student Leadership What a privilege it is to be a teacher and school leader. For me, at the heart of this is empowering and enabling students to see themselves as leaders. When I started out teaching I realised pretty quickly that I found my happy place in those moments when you observe others finding…
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Nurturing a Sustainable Culture of Active Thinking
As the school year launches, teachers prepare for their new and returning students, school leaders to welcome new and returning staff and the focus turns to designing ways in which learning communities can come together, develop and thrive. In my experience this often means that team building activities are dusted off and there is a…
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What’s in a name?
I miss the puzzle of learning names. As a School Principal I used to love greeting families, learning student names and being part of the early morning routine welcoming everyone into school. I struggled, I got names wrong, I mixed up pronunciation, put the accent in the wrong place and from time to time muddled…
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Agency, Advocacy and Multilingualism
Empowering young learners to share their voice, to take action, to advocate for themselves and others, and to engage in all aspects of learning in local and global issues is crucial. Communities hold space for this agency and are central to creating and fostering a climate in which this can thrive. It seems logical that…
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“Thank you for your feedback.” – Feeling ‘feedback’
‘Feedback’ is an essential part of continuous growth and improvement. As I blogged about in my previous post Goals, Habits and Growth we all benefit from ‘feedback’. We all get feedback in different ways from different sources. Feedback is, in its essence, someone’s response to a situation or another’s actions. I have been pondering lately…
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Goals, Habits & Growth
Pick a goal, write it down and commit to it. Having a goal is part of the learning process, right? It is embedded in our idea of supporting growth, evaluating achievement and encouraging reflection. We need to articulate where we are headed, develop SMART goals and then work towards these with criteria to assess how,…
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Why I replaced ‘Should’
We often use the word should. To express obligation or duty, to elaborate on a choice that could have been taken, to shame ourselves or others, or perhaps to express what we wish had happened. Think about it, since you woke up in the morning have you ‘shoulded’ yourself? Have you self-talked ‘should’? ‘I should…
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Multilingual Voices
We often hear and use phrases like ‘student agency’, ‘student voice’, ‘student action’ in our daily conversations about learning. I continue to be fascinated about language acquisition and growth; the factors that accelerate and foster this, and those that inhibit language development. In an international school community, in fact I would argue in the majority…
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Reframe our Language – From ‘Lost’ to ‘Leverage’
In a world where information is so easily accessible and communication is immediate, it isn’t long before a phrase begins to ‘trend’ on our news feeds. A storyline of a particular issue or topic is quick to dominate the narrative. This has most definitely been the case with the current trend to refer to our…
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Jenny O'Fee 