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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: teachers
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
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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Learning From My Kids
I’ve really been enjoying my time these past couple of weeks. It’s been nice to “get away from it all” and just take some much-needed time to relax, reflect, and rejuvenate. I had some lofty plans on getting caught up … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Family, Learning, Reflection
Tagged administrators, challenging, connection, educators, family, parents, relationships, teachers
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Life-Long Learners
This summer, I read a number of interesting, informative and inspiring books. The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall was one of the books I read. Not only does The … Continue reading
Twitter for Beginners
We are about to embark upon our Staff Digital Learning Journey. We are calling our sessions “Digital Discovery”. It is an exciting time for us all (and probably filled with some nervousness). In an effort to make this new learning … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Connections / Relationships, Professional Development, Technology
Tagged 24-7, digital, Digital Discovery, discovery, learners, learning, pro. d, teachers, Twitter
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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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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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School is Home
While I have always known it, from personal experience, this year made me realize once again just how important school is for our students. School is a safe place for many students. The ONLY safe place. Our students know what … Continue reading
Posted in Connections / Relationships, Family, Instructional Leadership, Lessons Learned, Poverty, Reflection
Tagged care, connections, home, leaders, leading, love, opportunities, place, Poverty, resiliency, resilient, safe, school, teachers, teaching
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Top 10 in 10 Series: Web 2.0 Tools 5/10
For the past 8 months, I have been introduced to and have used many Web 2.0 Tools – personally, with my staff and school, and with my students. I would like to briefly share some of the Web 2.0 tools … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Lessons Learned, Technology
Tagged administrators, engaging, fun, helpful, inspiring, teachers, tools, useful, web2.0
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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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