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SeeSaw in Year 5 - A Sketchnote

16/8/2018

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Been practicing sketchnotes every chance I get these days. Grateful my team leader asked me to capture out team discussion and agreements about Seasaw in our classrooms.
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My Hopes & Dreams As A Support Teacher

9/8/2018

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Teaching Team Alignment for Teaching Success

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An important part of getting in alignment with a new teaching team setting up for a successful school year is developing a shared understanding of the conditions which will maximize the chances that everyone can reach their point of highest contribution as well as achieve what they hope and dream for the school year ahead. 

That that end, we were asked to first write down two things that we hoped and dreamed for the school year ahead with our new teaching team. 

My hopes and dreams for this school year are:
  • to grow and learn together with colleagues and kids
  • to provide meaningful and helpful support that enhance the learning experience

Our next steps were to share our hopes and dreams with others on our team and have a talk about the  possible conditions that we will all need to do our best and achieve our hopes and dreams for the year.

We drafted the initial thoughts and used these conditions to guide our agreements. It's important we've co-constructed them together.

The Year 5 Team agrees to...
Keep it fun
Listen twice as much as we talk
Bring out the best in each other
Respect time as a precious resource
Assume we’re all giving it our best
Care for each other and our work
Be friendly
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Who Am I? Back-To-School Heart Mapping 2018

8/8/2018

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Who Am I? Who are You?

It was the first day of school for me today. It's always an exciting going back to school after the summer holiday each year. I've never actually left school. And, I love that. It's great. I was talking to my wife Palm the other day about how much I enjoy the cycle of things being a teacher. The back-to-school shopping and fresh haircuts in the fall. The bells and recess breaks throughout the days. The birthday songs and cakes too. It's all a wonderful routine. Refreshing, renewing and greatly rewarding.

Each year, our school leadership always does a great job at staging things by connecting us as teachers and building our teaching community school culture of trust and identity. As part of the elementary teaching staff tuning engagement this afternoon, we were given some time to reflect on our whole-school year-long Who We Are central Idea. This reflection included representing our thinking in a Who We Are Heart Map. Simply draw a heart and represent (draw, write) what's in your heart in 5 mins. Mine is pictured here.

Starting with Palm (my wife), Chester (my cat) and me in the top left, in no particular order of priority, here is a list of the things my heart map represents: Palm, Chester, Moms, Dads, Brothers, Sisters, Creation, Drawing, Painting, Carving, Time, Possibility, Wonder, Nutrition, Positive Mind, Weightlifting, 110%, Movies, Nature.

That what's in my heart today.
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