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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
Tag Archives: education
Nurturing Learning Without Limits
A colleague recently shared with me a video about training fleas. She used it with her staff at the beginning of a professional development activity she was leading on differentiated instruction. What a great connection to differentiated instruction! A … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Instructional Leadership, Leading the Learning, Learning, Reflection
Tagged adminstrator, challenging, education, encouraging, fleas, learning, mom, role, schools, students
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Educational Change: It’s Personal
We had our first session of the Engaging the Digital Learner dinner series last night. It was a great night with Dean Shareski as our main speaker (which I hope to blog about more in the coming days). First of … Continue reading
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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Learning Learning Learning
We just completed our first week with our school full of students, educators, and parents. What a great week it was. It’s always so much better once the staff and students arrive. They make all the planning and hard work … Continue reading
To Lead is to Live Dangerously
About 1 week ago, I began reading, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, by Heifetz and Linsky. It was a recommendation that I think will be very beneficial and will help me as I continue … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged discouraged, education, hopeless, leadership, leading, leading on the line, linsky, sad, skeptical
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Top 10 in 10: Influential Tweets 7/10
10 Interesting/Influential Tweets I’ve Read on Twitter Your messages on Twitter must be 140 characters or less. This can make sending a message quite challenging at times. Often, people will include a link to a blog post, article, or other … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged education, inspiration, leaders, quotes, thinking, thoughts, tweet, Twitter
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Top 10 in 10: Celebrating my 1ooth Blog Post 6/10 – Top Tweeters
As I have already shared, there are many amazing educators whom I have learned a great deal with and from during the past 8 months. I have mentioned some influential-to-me bloggers here and here. I would like to continue by … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Technology
Tagged education, follow, leaders, recommendations, social media, technology, to follow, tweet, Twitter
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Top 10 in 10 Series: Celebrating my 100th Blog Post 3/10
There have been many people who have influenced and continue to influence me on the web. In fact, it is very difficult to limit this to 10! I probably could have made my entire 100 list based on those who … Continue reading
Obsession? or Passion?
For the last 8 months I have been focused on my learning, in an effort to help others, including myself and my colleagues, but, most importantly, the students in my school. During this time, I have been blogging regularly as … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Lessons Learned, Reflection
Tagged be inspired, blog, colleagues, education, inspire, learn, life, love, obsession, passion, passionate, reflection, students
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Positively Positive – Attitude IS Everything!
Attitude is everything. Everywhere. In every situation. A person’s attitude not only contributes to one’s own feelings, but also the feelings of others. A person’s attitude is contagious. If you have a positive, optimistic, attitude, that is what you will … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Personalized Learning, Photography, Reflection
Tagged attitude, education, educators, green card, positive, reward
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