A journey of learning, growing and reflecting
Background: In 2015, our school purchased a new mathematics programme, called Oxford International Math for implementation in the 2015-16 academic year. Teachers quickly complained about the sequencing in the programme.…
A few nights ago I was reading to my son, Aidan. Part way through the chapter we had the following conversation: Aidan: My schema popped!! Me (hoping that my understanding…
I’d been working at my school in Potsdam, Germany for a few months when they sent me on my first PYP workshop in 2000. I remember sitting through the first…
When I was pregnant, I had frequent nightmares about my babies drowning. And when they were actually born, I was a water nazi! My boys were in swimming lessons at…
I will confess that I was a little disappointed with the first couple days of the study tour I took to see the pre-schools and infant-toddler centers in Reggio Emilia.…
I was fortunate enough to work at a lovely little international school in Vancouver, called Greybrook Academy. We were only at Greybrook for 18 months before it shut its doors…
One of my most profound schema pops occurred when I was preparing the reflection questions for my Grade 5 students, who had just finished presenting their Exhibition. I was working…
