It’s back to my #morningroutine, which gives me just over an hour to myself (with the cat) before I tackle the day. But it’s making me think about what I should include for students’ this year. What’s important for you? #IB #Learnerprofile #socialemotional

Self-care isn't selfish, it's essential 💕 Join us for Self-Care September and find ways to be kind to yourself as well as others actionforhappiness.org/self-care-sept… #SelfCareSeptember

For #IBteachers new and old, a great way to get your thinking going.

Yesterday as we got down to the nitty gritty of planning, my brother distracted me with some truly terrible jokes. Which made me #reflect. While we’re planning how are we bringing the #joy into the classroom? What are your top tips? #IB #ApproachesToTeaching

Some great strategies to use as we go into a new year with new colleagues.

1st day of school today for the students. My own child is in full on panic. I’m between niggle & spiral, where are you? How will you deal with all those first day worries? #IB #learnerprofile #caring Pic from Nadia Shireen Ace books to open up discussions about feelings.

🎉 Our first version of our #DigitalCitizenship program! 🌐 We engaged different stakeholders including a AI specialist, in a design thinking process to create it. While it's not flawless, our scope & sequence is part of a system to foster critical engagement in the digital world

Who will pop out the end? Met my students for the first time yesterday, and for now they are all still a mystery, but I’m #curious to learn who they will become. What have you learnt about your students? #IB

How do you gather data about playful learning? Apart from photos and anecdotal notes. Yesterday, I read a post by @pedagogyofplay about PD and #playfullearning that got me thinking I need to dive deep in Project Zero amazing freebie about play. #agancy

Don’t forget to keep the discussion going every day about anything related to PYP using the #pypchat hashtag

How do you foster #inquiry in your context? Joined in with my first #pypchat last night. Apparently it was a slow start as it’s the first one, but search the # and share your learning.

Transfer is the practice of applying knowledge or meaning from a familiar context to an unfamiliar context. Cognitive Transfer: 14 Ways Students Can Transfer Knowledge bit.ly/3LCxhz9

Psst… if this is 3am for you, you can watch it later.

Amazing examples of #inquiry, yesterday. How do you?do a cartwheel? … start a fire with 2 sticks? arrange the pipes to water the tree? What insects live here? The thing is these are all my ??s so now the Ss need to make these inquiries their own. #IB #agency

Collecting observational and conversational assessment information is an important part of decision making. Here is a template to support this work. I hope it is helpful. #triangulation #ATAssessment solutiontree.com/ca/authors/kat…

Finished reading Danielle Jawando’s When our worlds collided. It made me laugh, cry, sad and angry. If you want to understand #DEIJ read it. Librarians, secondary teachers put it in the hands of teens because it’s a damn good book. #YAbooks

What do you do when well made plans go awry? Do you stick with it, or try to figure out what happened? (FYI this intrigued me, but when I asked, the reader said they would discuss and compare the books later -which they did, sitting in a circle.) #IBLP #reflective

Following on from yesterday’s ‘when things go awry’ post, it rained solid meaning the Ss were in the same room from 10:45. So what do we do with the rambunctious Ss. Is agressive hugging a thing? What do you think? raisingchildren.net.au/preschoolers/p…

What are your rays of sunshine this week? There’s a bit of a theme for me, dodgy printers, excessive rain, but during a ray of sunshine I observed some amazing #collaboration and #thinkingskills #IB #lowfloorhighceiling #maths