The Spark of Determination In a journey spanning five decades, the transformative power of education and community involvement has reshaped the lives of many, including mine. At the age of …
Awe-some Classrooms
How do we re-imagine education if we are not teaching in awe-some classrooms? One accepted definition of AWE is…“Awe is a feeling of being in the presence of something vast …
Bring The Conference To Your School
Keller Education have a new, exciting offering which many Partner Schools are showing interest in. Instead of spending ridiculous amounts of money on attending local or international conferences which add …
Changing the ‘Norm’ – Remove the ‘Bad Stress’
We know that there is good stress (eustress) and bad stress (dis-stress). We want to avoid/remove bad stress at all costs and allow sufficient good stress to accelerate the learning. …
‘Unmasked’ in Education
It is all about the environment. The classroom, the teacher, the students and the atmosphere – matters. We are connected. Our ability to perform in a learning space is determined …
Is the Cell Phone the new ‘Box of Cigarettes’?
Meet the schizophrenic dopamine dispenser in your pocket! We ask the question, is the cell phone the new box of cigarettes? When I was in High School in the 1970’s, …
Self-determined Motivation
Unmotivated students are not likely to learn much at school. If this is true, how do we move them all into the motivated group? Student’s self-determined motivation is associated with …
Outsourcing Parenting
The 21st century will be remembered as a time when parenting was outsourced. It’s a unique phenomena in this particular time. Scan the internet and you can find someone to …
How Smart Am I vs How Am I Smart?
Smart Meta-Cogs in the Classroom Metacognition is the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s own thinking. It is often referred to as thinking about one’s own thinking. In order …
Pygmalion in the Classroom
What we expect of a student produces pure magic. George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, that many of us older educators may remember by the sentimentalised musical version My Fair Lady, tells …
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