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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: students
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
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
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
Pushing the Envelope
We are about to embark upon an exciting new school year! Our school received an Innovative Learning Designs Grant which 10 of our teachers are involved with. Those teachers formed small groups and wrote inquiry questions in April of last … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Technology
Tagged 21stcenturylearning, change, george couros, growth, learning, school, students, teachers, technology, tools
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Be Curious
For the past three years we’ve taken a family road trip to Disneyland. Even though we end up at Disney, this vacation is much more than a Disney trip. We take our time driving down, stopping at many forests, playgrounds, beaches, … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Photography, Reflection, Uncategorized
Tagged beyond exterior, curious, learning, new year, questions, real, reflection, reminder, school, September, students
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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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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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It’s Not About Power and Control
Whether you are a mother, father, sister, brother, teacher, administrator, or anyone in management, it is important to understand that trying to exert power and control is usually not very effective. Too often I see and hear about people trying … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Reflection
Tagged children, control, family, influence, personal, positive, power, professional, relationships, students
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Self-Assessment – Oh the Horror!
Self-Assessment … it’s a (long) process. We all know the importance of Assessment AS learning …. This is when students (and adults, for that matter) reflect, and self-assess their learning that real long-term learning and growth can occur. When the … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Personalized Learning, Reflection, Reporting
Tagged Assessment, assessment as learning, grades, grading, reflection, student, students
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