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Teaching “Fair”

One of the concerns I have heard lately from teachers is worry about how we can teach children to understand and respect environmental and instructional accommodations for other children. We often say...

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Critical Thinking and Inclusion

As our Critical Thinking Lead Teacher for two years, it makes sense that much of the co-planning and co-teaching that I am invited to do centers around just that.  I expected this, and welcomed it!...

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Learning Through Collaboration…Different Perspectives Are Powerful

In recent months, I have had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative book study focusing on Autism Spectrum Disorder.  This has been an excellent opportunity facilitated by Learning Services,...

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Mental Cheat Sheet

Knowing there are definite stumbling blocks in getting to the point of coaching heavy, I felt like I needed a couple of key questions that I could keep in mind to ask myself and the teachers in my...

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Subtle differences…Big shift

It’s happening! I’m noticing more and more teachers seeing Inclusion as a positive for the students in their classrooms. The conversations I am having with teachers this year are less about “this...

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Sharing Our Vision

Finding the time to pause and reflect on the past busy months, I notice that my thoughts are still spinning from all the learning and growth I have experienced with staff. At the start of the year, I...

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Happy New Year

As we move into 2014, it is a great time to reflect on the past year, as well as look forward to the year to come.  Many of us have come up with a New Year’s resolution or two, and I am no different....

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Strength-Based Staff

Being able to see, hear and experience every classroom in the school is one of my favourite parts of being a Learning Coach.  Part of this is selfish (I am constantly “stealing” ideas to add to my...

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Change is Messy Work

In the book, The Art of Coaching by Elena Aguilar, she defines the “trans” in “transformation” as meaning “across, on the other side of, beyond – where we are going is unknown and yet to be defined”....

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Summer…Rest, Rejuvenate and Take Some Time to do …Nothing.

It’s June.  The sun shines warmly this week as schools across Parkland School Division push through the final exciting last days before summer holidays officially begin.  Provincial Achievement tests,...

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Find a Way or Make a Way

Photo Credit: FutUndBeidl via Compfight cc So excited to share with all of you another amazing speaker that I was fortunate enough to see this year.  I have followed Paula Kluth for quite awhile and...

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