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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: July 2012
Important Message
Important Message by an Inspirational Adult I would like to introduce you all to Riia Talve. I really wanted to feature Riia on our Inspirational Kids blog, but she is no longer a student. She is an adult with a … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Reflection, Uncategorized
Tagged artist, inspiration, inspire, learning disabilities, speaker
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Inspirational Kids
I started a new blog last night. Kind of a spur of a moment thing, really, but I think it will be fun. The blog was inspired by George Couros (@gcouros on Twitter) who posted a wonderful video about an … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned
Tagged blog, inspiration, inspirational, inspiring, kids, learning, lesson, lessons
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Inspiring Video
While on Twitter tonight, I can across a tweet by David Culberhouse (@DCulberhouse on Twitter) to Chris Wejr (@ChrisWejr on Twitter). David was recommending Chris watch a video by Simon Sinek (@simonsinek on Twitter). It was a recent talk that … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Uncategorized
Tagged relationships, simon sinek, small, start small, start with why, why
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It’s All About Relationships
I have been back on Twitter for a year now (I was originally Twitter in April, 2009, but didn’t really see the point of it, so I left it behind for a few years). It has been truly an amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged blogging, connections, relationships, social media, socialmedia, Twitter, wees, wejr
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My Resilient Little Girl
My 7-year-old daughter continues to amaze me every day. A little over a week ago, she broke her elbow playing on the monkey bars (or more specifically, falling OFF the monkey bars). It was a very bad break so she … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Family, Lessons Learned
Tagged accident, arm, cast, daughter, happy, hurt, learned, learning, lesson, resilience
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We Need to Get These Kids Reading!
I was reading a blog post tonight written by someone I admire in my PLN, Jessica Johnson (@principalj on Twitter). She is a principal in a K-5 school in Wisconsin. She is a principal whom I’ve been following for the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Curriculum, Lessons Learned, Professional Development
Tagged cafe, daily 5, daily5, improving, improving reading, lifelongreading, reading
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Power of Your Words
“What if . . . ?” ”Yeah, but . . .” These two phrases include only a couple of little words each, but they are very powerful words which can either change the way things are done or … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Reflection, Technology
Tagged "What if", "Yah but", administrators, excuses, innovate, innovation, questioning, questions
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Personalized Learning
The great debate in education, particularly where I live in British Columbia, seems to be Personalized Learning or Personalized Education. There was an #edchat chat this Tuesday with this as the topic. The focus for the chat was based on … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned, Personalized Learning, Professional Development, Uncategorized
Tagged administrators, British Columbia, change, difficult, growth, learning, model, modelling, open, personalized learning, prod, students, teachers
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