Tag: resilience

Drawing #mindset #grit #resilience #flow #learning

Posted by | Published on February 4, 2017

I cannot draw. This has been my mindset since about 8 years of age. Aged 48, I now understand how it came to be that […] 

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Mindfulness and Grit

Posted by | Published on December 20, 2016

In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as the best predictor of success.  And it wasn’t social intelligence, it wasn’t good looks, physical […] 

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7th Annual Optimism and Resilience Conference

Posted by | Published on December 18, 2015

Staff Development Days provide great opportunities to reinvigorate professional enthusiasms as well as to reflect on learning and life at school. For the last six […] 

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Nurturing Wellbeing: Sixth Annual Optimism and Resilience Conference

Posted by | Published on December 19, 2014

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”  Today, and I do feel a little sad about it, was our sixth and […] 

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Optimism & Resilience: Fourth Annual Conference

Posted by | Published on December 21, 2012

It is clichéd to comment about the impossibly rapid passing of time but I do find it difficult to believe this is our school’s fourth annual […] 

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Optimism & Resilience: Third Annual Conference

Posted by | Published on December 21, 2011

Our annual school conference is a special way to end the year on a high that we all look forward too. I blogged about our last […] 

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Australian English teachers have not flocked to twitter in the way I envisaged back in early 2008. I have been guilty of spamming email distribution lists, evangelising at conferences and publishing traditional […] 

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Our annual school conference is a special way to end the year on a high that we all look forward too. I blogged about our last two events and this year we […] 

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“The teacher’s job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features of effective learning environments are […] 

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“I want to do something I am interested in. I want to pursue my passions and live happily.” Quiia Cheng (17) “China is getting rich now. But if you look […] 

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