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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
Category Archives: Lessons Learned
Student Achievement to Me
I was asked recently to share my thoughts on what student achievement meant to me and how an elementary principal contributes to student achievement. What interesting and powerful questions. These questions are both huge and could be the topic of … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned, Reflection
Tagged achievement, creative, creativity, powerpoint, principal, student, thoughts, video
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Leadership Lessons
I’ve been reflecting a great deal lately about what I’ve learned (and continue to learn) about leadership and leading. I would like to share a few of these reflections here. During my nearly 8 years as a vice-principal (with two … Continue reading
Power of Sharing
I still haven’t finished my “Introduction” to ETMOOC post, but will do that soon. I just had to get this post out of my head tonight. This afternoon, I attended Dean Shareski’s Sharing as Accountability session in the #ETMOOC (Educational … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Leadership, Lessons Learned, Professional Development, Technology
Tagged #etmooc, accountability, administrators, couros, educators, learning, mooc, shareski, sharing, teachers
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No One Knows Everything
As I reflect on my holidays, and think of the new year upon us, a conversation I overheard stands out. I was standing in line at a grocery store in San Francisco. Two people (obviously tourists to San Francisco) were … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons Learned, Reflection, Uncategorized
Tagged absolutes, always, communication, education, lesson, never, parent, student, teacher
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But, He Can Do It At Home….
Have you ever had a parent tell you, “But Johnny (insert any child’s name here) can count to 100 by 2′s (insert any skill here) at home with no difficulty at all. He does it all the time!” As a … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Family, Lessons Learned, Personalized Learning, Photography, Reflection, Uncategorized
Tagged learning, lesson, parent, patience, son, student, teacher, understanding
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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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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, Lessons Learned, Curriculum, Professional Development
Tagged cafe, daily 5, daily5, improving, improving reading, lifelongreading, reading
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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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