This page will host an occasional series in which I hope to share with you some of my thoughts prompted by my (usually) morning walks. What often happens during these walks is that I find myself trying to make sense of two different threads that seem to collide.
Questions and concerns – Making meaning together
As we continue to explore better ways for children to learning and teachers to teach, how can we think together, relaunch our thinking and search for meaning together?
A Cabinet of Curiosity
What arouses wonder and curiosity for you? For your team? Could creating a collective Wunderkammer be another way of getting a team of people to identify intentions and directions, to develop a common language and find ways of maintaining their individual and collective curiosity? What do you think?
Rethinking behaviour
Rethinking ‘behaviour’ as ‘actions, reactions and interactions’ can refocus our own actions, reactions and interactions and help us support others to learn and use strategies and build emotional intelligence
Traces of learning
We often photograph the beautiful provocations and environments we create for learning. But there is beauty in the traces of learning after deep free-flow play too.
Learning Conversations
Years ago, I co-facilitated ‘soirees’. People would gather to talk about things they cared about. It was like a book club but focused on issues that were confronting, challenging or emerging. I wonder if there is interest in an on-line version?
Belonging
Relationships matter. Belonging is important. Policies set directions for action. Reviewing and refining policies can renew and revitalise communities. Facilitating Conversations can help schools (or any organisation) to engage the people who will be affected by a policy to shape its content so that it meets the demands of the context and can be implemented.
Facilitating Conversations 