by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 30, 2016 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I was honoured to be invited to facilitate a workshop for Canadian World Studies teachers around the topic of inquiry-based learning. As I began to plan, I realized that they were scheduled to be in a very small meeting room and no other space was available. As a...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 19, 2016 | Aligning Resources with Practices, Engaging in Courageous Conversations, Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures, Using Data
Monitoring and measurement are things that I know I am supposed to do in my role as Literacy Consultant, but it is something I find the most difficult to do. In a recent collaborative inquiry with teachers on inquiry-based learning, my colleague Sonia Racco and I...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 17, 2016 | Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m on Spring Break or because today is St. Patrick’s Day, but I feel compelled to write about how absolutely blessed I feel right now. I have been working on a writing project (which I don’t want to elaborate...
by Jennifer Casa-Todd | Mar 1, 2016 | Engaging in Courageous Conversations
What if we believed that everything that we had to make great schools was already within our organization, and we just needed to develop and share it? (Couros 117). This is the first What If, in George Couro’s list in the Innovator’s Mindset and is the one...