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Tia Henriksen
It's All About Learning
Learner ~ Leader ~ Educator ~ Mother
Passionate about learning and sparking the learning in others. I believe in modelling my own learning. I feel strongly about developing relationships with students, parents, teachers, and my colleagues (near and far). It is through developing these relationships that the most profound learning can occur.
It’s All About Learning
Monthly Archives: October 2011
My Struggle With Letter Grades
Much of my teaching experience, prior to becoming a vice-principal was teaching primary students. When teaching primary students, we do not assign letter grades. Instead, we look at each prescribed learning outcome for each student on a continuum of learning: … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Personalized Learning
Tagged alternatives, Assessment, grading, kohn, narrative, report, report card, reporting
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Soft Eyes and a Warm Voice
On Friday, for the Provincial Professional Day, a group of us from our school heard the second part of the workshop by Colleen Drobot on Supporting the Inner City Teacher. Specifically, her workshop was entitled: “Working With Immature, Sensitive and/or … Continue reading
I Heart Pro. D.
If you’ve been reading my blog, you probably know that I love learning. So, it wouldn’t surprise you that I love Professional Development Days and today was one of those days. While I will discuss my Professional Development Day experience … Continue reading
We Did It!
Yesterday was the day that I committed to myself and, more importantly, to my students that we were going to have our Health & Career Education class in the computer lab. I’d been planning this since the summer, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Leading the Learning, Reflection, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged computers, Edmodo, enthusiasm, learners, nervous, students, technology
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Leading the Millennials
As part of my professional growth I am involved with a study group of administrators. We are focusing our growth in the area of technology and 21st Century learning and education. We have chosen to read Leading 21st Century Schools:Harnessing Technology … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Leadership, Leading the Learning, Technology
Tagged 21st century, leading, learning, millennials, technology
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Confession
I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. Over the past few months I’ve been doing a great deal of learning online and that has been so very exciting! It allowed me to start the year very excited and … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned, Personalized Learning, Reflection, Technology
Tagged 21st century, computer lab, concerned, confession, leading, learning, scared, students, technology
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I’m Thankful
The Thanksgiving long weekend is here already. It’s amazing to me how fast this year has gone so far! I can’t let this weekend end though, without blogging about the 10 things for which I am most thankful (I’m sure … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Reflection
Tagged children, family, reflection, teachers, Thankful, Thanksgiving, work
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Exciting Things are Happening
We have such an exciting, innovative district! I am so excited about what the future holds with our district. Let me share a few initiatives that were shared with us at our admin meeting on Wednesday. Administrators can choose to … Continue reading
Engaging the Digital Learner – Part 1
The first night of the Engaging the Digital Learner dinner series planned by our District Helping Teachers was this past Thursday night (September 29). What a great event! It was a full house (well over 100 people), full of excited, … Continue reading
