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Our facilitators and associates love to write about what they are passionate about! Please browse through our articles below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the category options above the images below.
Let’s slow down: Shifting from directing and correcting to a culture of connecting. Author: Harriet O’Sullivan
What busy lives we lead. Always rushing from here to there, structuring our days, and time, to fit as much in as possible. Where does all of this over-scheduling leave us in...
Connection: The beating heart that drives learning. Author: Lorraine Sands
Connection, with each other and with our environments, is crucial to the act of learning, and thus as teachers we must strive to improve the connections for children in our care with...
So what is different about Learning Stories? Authors: Ann Hatherly and Lorraine Sands
Just as the word 'curriculum' became so much part of early childhood discourse ten years ago, so 'Learning Stories' is slipping easily off the tongue in early childhood circles these days. In New Zealand, at least, most of us now...
Learning Stories: Are these powerfully reflecting the learning culture of your setting? Author: Lorraine Sands
Learning Stories are teachers individualised planning for children. Teachers write the narrative (story) followed by an analysis and then think how to grow this learning further (planning). These three parts...
Learning Stories: Tracking learning progress, making a difference in children’s learning lives….. Author: Lorraine Sands
Stories have been told ever since we could scratch marks onto cave walls. They have been powerful forever, across all cultures, all time. The ones we remember are the funny,...
Learner Identity: The ways we contribute to shaping this through the messages we share. Growing an awareness of the impact of our everyday ways of being and doing. Author: Marianne MacPherson
This quote was put up on our website a little while ago - I am not sure who wrote it. But it struck a chord with me immediately in the...