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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: learning
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
Inspired
The other day, I was asked a question about who inspires me. What a great question! I could go on and on for hours about all the people who inspire me each and every day. As administrators, we are fortunate … Continue reading
A Smackdown and More
A couple of weeks ago, I received a surprising, but very pleasant, direct message on Twitter that went something like this, “Going to be in Surrey in a couple of weeks… want to get together?” Umm… Yeah! Absolutely! The message … Continue reading
Battle of Technology and Pedagogy
First of all, I have a bit of a confession. When I started on Twitter again almost 2 years ago, I didn’t deeply understand when I read, “It’s not about the technology.” Yes, I understood it on a surface level, … Continue reading
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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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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Year End Blog Wordle and My Rock
Every so often, I make up a word splash (wordle) of words that are most commonly used in my blog. This was inspired by fellow vice-principal Erin Paynter from Ottawa. The words you use more often are larger than the other less-used … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged learning, lifelong learning, motivation, rock
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