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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: engagement
Easy Movie-Making Alternative
In a recent post, I described a Digital Storytelling session in the Digital Sandbox for Administrators that fellow administrator, Antonio Vendramin and I offered for other Surrey School District administrators. You can read about that session here. During this session, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, etmooc, Leading the Learning, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged animoto, engagement, family, involvement, learning, literacy, sharing, video
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Inspiring Educators and Great Pro-D.
Currently, our school has 10 iPads. We have also ordered another 28 (which I am kind of kicking myself now about since the iPad3 will be out in a matter of days). When these arrive, we will have a full … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Curriculum, Differentiation, Instructional Leadership, Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Technology
Tagged apple, collaboration, engagement, engaging, fun, headquarters, ipads, learning, pro. d, professional development, surrey, teachers
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Letter Grades and Learning
My students started their self-assessment for Term 2 today (in the 2 French classes I teach). I also managed to start the individual conferences with my students. During these conferences, we discussed the Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs) for the term … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Connections / Relationships, Curriculum, Reporting
Tagged alfie kohn, degrading, engagement, grading, learning, letter grades, motivation, reporting
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Attendance and Engagement
Engagement is what makes the difference for kids! I am the vice principal of an inner-city school. It has been determined that our school is in the top ten percent of schools in our district of 124 schools with the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Personalized Learning, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged assist, at-risk, attendance, ego, engagement, fu, help, robotics, students
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Powerful Collaboration
A couple Monday’s ago, we provided one of our Grade 1 teachers with the opportunity to visit another Grade 1 teacher in our school district. She was going to observe the teacher doing morning routines, Guided Reading, calendar, math and … Continue reading
Powerful Student Engagement
All 4 of my classes completed their 100 Minutes of Genius this week (my take on Genius Hour). It was a powerful experience for all of us. Here are some things I noticed: Students didn’t need any direction. Students knew … Continue reading
Powerful Digital Discovery
This past Thursday afternoon/evening, our district hosted our first of three, Digital Discovery sessions for administrators for this school year. I am fortunate to be one of the Digital Coaches for this series. What a night it was. There were … Continue reading
The Primary Pad Buzz
After hearing about one of our teacher’s experience and witnessing the excitement of the students, I knew I wanted to give PrimaryPad a try with my own classes. It went really well, for the most part. The second class I … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Curriculum, Lessons Learned, Reflection, Technology
Tagged collaboration, engaged, engagement, grade 6, group work, Primary Pad, PrimaryPad, rad, reflection, technology
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A Lesson in Persistence and Collaboration
One of our Grade 5 teachers tried something new a couple of weeks ago. It turned out fabulous, but not without a few hiccups. Her class is studying the environment, so she wanted to have her class collaboratively answer a … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Leading the Learning, Lessons Learned, Reflection, Technology
Tagged buzz, collaboration, computer, engagement, excitement, laptops, learning, persistence, school, student, teacher, technology
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