It’s been months of brainstorming and planning with some fantastic organizations and educators for a visit to Australia and Tasmania in July.

I’ll be partnering with Trevor MacKenzie at many of these events, bringing our range of experience and perspectives to the group while of course leaning and also learning from the fantastic wisdom in the room (If you were at the Kaleidoscope event in Vancouver this past April you’ll know this phrase, as shared by Kath Murdoch, quite well!)

It’s spring time here in the states which inevitably means “testing season”. And while assessment should be something that happens with our students throughout the course of a school year, the hyper focus on testing, overall performance, and summative assessment is quite high. Teachers and students are fatigued and our stamina and focus is also something that feels like an extra challenge.

Leave it Toddle to organize a special Assessment Meetup to refresh and revitalize our mindsets and recenter ourselves to what really matters…

I talk a lot about the power of intentions as it relates to our professional practice as inquiry educators. Whether I’m leading a school through a professional learning session or I am working with a small group of teachers on my own campus, I begin with a collection of intentions to bring a presence and mindfulness we all need to arrive with one another.

I talk a lot about the power of intentions as it relates to our professional practice as inquiry educators. Whether I’m leading a school through a professional learning session or I am working with a small group of teachers on my own campus, I begin with a collection of intentions to bring a presence and mindfulness we all need to arrive with one another.

It’s the end of the year and my, what a year it’s been for us all hasn’t it?

Currently, our campus is wrapping up our last few weeks of school. We are doing a lot of celebrating of the growth of all of our learners, hand holding and affirming one another to joyfully hang on for a few more days and reflecting to document and evidence the learning we’ve done together this year.

Seeing the warm welcome and celebration of Leading with a Lens of Inquiry has really been quite something special this past month.

Your DMs, sharing with your PLN and invitations to continue the work beyond the book you have in your hands is so very much appreciated (an understatement for the gratitude I have!) ☺️.

So many of you are venturing out on holidays and tucking the book into your carry on, sitting with the words…

Seeing the warm welcome and celebration of Leading with a Lens of Inquiry has really been quite something special this past month.

Your DMs, sharing with your PLN and invitations to continue the work beyond the book you have in your hands is so very much appreciated (an understatement for the gratitude I have!) ☺️.

So many of you are venturing out on holidays and tucking the book into your carry on, sitting with the words by the pools with your families and friends and tagging me in some of your favorite pages to share your thinking, requests to sign your books in person and questions and overwhelming enthusiasm…

I’m really excited to share that I will be presenting at Region 13’s Instructional Coaching Conference: Press Play this summer. This event was one of the very first I attended when I stepped outside of the classroom and into a leadership role. This two day event is packed with keynotes and sessions focused on student centered coaching and the nuances of the influence instructional coaches have in their role, think tank opportunities to connect with other leaders to brainstorm, share experiences and learn from one another.

Today I submitted the final round of edits and revisions before Leading with a Lens of Inquiry goes to layout. This portion of the publishing timeline means that the Google docs I’ve been working from for the past fourteen months get turned in the layout of the book, the very one you will be holding in your hands in a little over a month.

Today I submitted the final round of edits and revisions before Leading with a Lens of Inquiry goes to layout. This portion of the publishing timeline means that the Google docs I’ve been working from for the past fourteen months get turned in the layout of the book, the very one you will be holding in your hands in a little over a month.

Going further is a stage in the inquiry cycle.

During this stage, there’s a depth and complexity to learning as connections are made and questions are answered and evaluated to determine next steps in the process of learning. Our findings and conclusions are shared with peers and help cultivate the landscape for conversations and dialogue. We take our learning deeper by inviting different perspectives through more collaboration as we continue to make sense of our learning and reflect on the ways it’s changed over time.

Lifting up the voices of educators who are not afraid of taking risks, finding innovation within the systems we are given and connecting a global network and audience are all attributes of what’s behind the publication, STEMED Magazine.