We have been maintaining this blog for a few years now. We blog on it quite sporadically. Sometimes I think that’s because when we are working with teachers, the stories we have are their stories, and we might break their trust by telling them. I can tell my own stories, but I can’t tell your …
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Transformation Components Revised
I’ve been making some revisions to the initial thinking around our Tranformation Components. After an initial year of exploring different PD components in service of Transforming Learning Everywhere, a few changes are necessary. Digital Citizenship isn’t a separate component: it is a key piece in the character building elements required to create a safe and …
Week 3: Components of a Transformed Learning Environment
The shift to a “Technology-Accelerated” (Fullan) inquiry-based learning environment requires personalized, job-embedded professional development opportunities that meet the teachers where they are, rather than large group presentations that fail to differentiate for the broad spectrum of adoption seen within our classrooms. Within each one of these six pillar components there exists a continuum of adoption …
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Week 2: Transforming Learning Everywhere: iPad Distribution Nights
Tonight we embark on our first iPad Distribution Night at the elementary schools. These are the resources we will be using at the seven TLE phase one schools. These are different than the resources we utilized at Henderson Secondary. We will be working in the classrooms with those previous tutorials where applicable, to contextualize the …
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Week 1: Transforming Learning Everywhere
We’ve started distributing iPads to the students. This project, which began at seven elementary schools in the North end of Hamilton last year with teacher devices and classroom kits for approx 70 Grade 4-6 classrooms, has now expanded to include Henderson Secondary, and Mountain Secondary, and will see iPads deployed to all students and teachers …