LEARNING CONNECTIONS

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Ideas | Connections | Reflections
Thoughts on leadership, learning, and building meaningful school communities.

I am an international school leader and educator focused on designing learning environments where students thrive, educators grow, and communities flourish through thoughtful leadership, innovation, and care.

This space is where I reflect on learning, leadership, and change. It is written for educators, leaders, and anyone interested in how people and organizations grow.

I hope something here resonates, challenges your thinking, or encourages you to pause and reflect along the way.

  • Connecting to Inquiry

    Last year, I had the opportunity to experience teaching within the IB Primary Years Program at Tokyo International School. I found that although I had always considered myself a teacher who effectively used inquiry, the PYP framework allowed me to take student learning to a place where students were making…

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    Remembrance Day

    An excerpt from today’s Remembrance Day assembly at Ridgeview Elementary. Good morning everyone and welcome to today’s Remembrance Day ceremony. At the front today we have a number of special guest representatives that I would like to introduce. Garett is here to represent you the students, with his writing piece…

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  • As educators in West Vancouver we are focussing on our Professional Growth Plans for this year. These provide the framework that guide our professional learning in the areas we would like to further develop, challenge or investigate. As we carefully reflect on our current practice, we try to select goals…

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  • This fall our District Leadership in the West Vancouver School District challenged the School Administrators to put ourselves out there, and create professional blogs that contribute to the conversation around education in British Columbia and abroad. I was inspired while sitting in those meetings and began brainstorming ideas for blog…

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