As part of my position I have the opportunity to be involved in a lot of Professional Development. This professional development comes in many forms and from many ends of the spectrum from learning to leading. One of my favorite things about Professional Development is the promise of change and…
Why Change?
Change is never easy. For the most part, people don’t just wake up one day and decide to take everything they are comfortable with and throw it away to take on unknown challenges. Change is a process, it’s the culmination of the small things in life that can result in…
Dream Big
Sometimes it is important: To step out of your comfort zone To advocate for those who can’t To ask the hard questions To challenge the world as it appears around you To believe you can make a difference To believe you can change the world I’m thankful for a week…
My continued Journey as an Aspiring Leader
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working hard to complete my Principal’s Qualification Practicum. As part of the journey, I completed 100+ hours of work related to leading Collaborative Inquiries with a variety of groups of teachers. I spent a lot of time with the teachers exploring…
Reflecting on “Innovation Age Learning”
I just finished “Innovation Age Learning” by Sharon “SM” Sakai-Miller. This book reconfirmed my belief and work for the last few years. The main idea of the book, that we are now entering the “Innovation Age”, the age where the creation of solutions for unique issues and problems are…
Digital Citizenship #ISTE2016
One of the amazing workshops I attended at #ISTE2016 was a conversation around the idea of digital citizenship. This was a refresher for me, as I had the pleasure to have heard these ideas and had these discussions back in 2010. Over the last few years, I keep coming back…
What I learned about Sketchnoting at ISTE2016
A few months ago I attended a session at BIT15 with Sylvia Duckworth and learned the art of Sketchnoting. She talked about the tools she used and the techniques she had tried and perfected over her short time learning the craft. After the session I went home and and successfully…
Reflecting upon my Time at ISTE2016
I’ve just had an amazing opportunity to spend 3 days learning at ISTE 2016. This amazing educational technology conference was held in Denver this year. 15,000 + educators, vendors and students attended this massive international conference to spark our interest, plan our next steps and in many ways, just to…
Exciting Times – Expanding Experiential Learning
A couple weeks ago, the new “Community-Connected Experiential Learning” policy framework was released in Draft form. This document, set to replace Cooperative Education and other Forms of Experiential Learning: Policies and Procedures for Ontario Secondary Schools, 2000. The new policy is now K-12 and includes a new framework for Experiential…
Aspiring to be a Good Leader
A couple weeks ago I started on my next educational learning pathway. I’ve spent the last 12 years learning and developing my educational skills and abilities. I’ve taken courses to become Specialists in both Special Education and Guidance. I’ve enrolled in not-for-credit technology courses. I’ve taken a couple of university…