Each year I stop to reflect on the year that’s been. This year has been one of finishing and consolidating. It’s quite a different feel to what I have felt in my other recent years. Its calmer, quieter and not as hectic. Or is that just because I’m getting older, my children have grown up, [...]
Continue Reading Add comment December 31, 2012
I’m a sucker for knowing the story behind things. Whether it is a biography about a famous person, a film about an event in history or an interview with an artist. I think as humans we want to make sense of things in the world, especially when they are just off centre with the norm. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment September 28, 2012
It’s Friday night. Another busy week has just passed. A school council meeting, a trip down to the year 5/6 camp at Cottage by the Sea, a careers excursion to the costume department at the Arts Centre, a research circle for Play for Life and preparation for a local community festival this Sunday. This is [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments August 31, 2012
Sustaining relationships and friendships over time takes effort. This weekend I am having lunch with six other women who were my friends way back in primary school and secondary school. That’s pretty amazing, since that was a long time ago! We don’t always see each other, and sometimes one of us may be temporarily on [...]
Continue Reading Add comment July 27, 2012
My blog is a means for me to tell my story, to reflect on what I have learnt, heard or experienced. It helps me to build meaning through my writing and links to multi-media, such as images and video clips. It is a place where I can pull things together and a place where I [...]
Continue Reading 5 comments March 31, 2012
With my my third semester of my Masters of School Leadership started, my mind is now back into full reflective and thinking mode. Not that it wasn’t before, but once again the readings and discussions related to my studies have helped to bring things together. There are many things happening in my workplace; my school. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment March 24, 2012
It’s been nearly a decade since I first started exploring the importance of emotions in teaching and learning. For me there have been mixed messages. That students need to be resilient, that teachers and leaders need to keep calm at all times, that teachers are too emotional and that is why we are not a [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment February 11, 2012
Today it has been four years since I first started my blog, “More Than Just Knowing Stuff”. The title was chosen to reflect my philosophy of education, that is, that it is more than just knowing a whole heap of stuff, but rather being able to learn, grow, reflect, experience, challenge thinking and collaborate. It [...]
Continue Reading 4 comments January 5, 2012
With 2011 being a fast train ride for me I wasn’t able to reflect and share some of my experiences and learnings as much as I would have liked. Thought Leadership was something I first heard about at the Apple Distinguished Educator institute back in March 2011. As a new ADE we were able to [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment January 3, 2012
2012 was described to me as being a year of good luck. My school council president is Timorese and he told me that it was going to be the Year of the Dragon. This apparently brings good luck, but as I have also researched possibilities of a wild and exciting year too. For me personally, [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments January 1, 2012
