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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Dapto HS Executive at WIN TV  →

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Uncategorized, YouTube

Andrew FitzSimons interviewed by WIN TV after a presentation about the digital future(s). [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1579220&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Dapto HS Executive at WIN TV“, posted with vodpod    

'NSW pulls out of computers-for-schools program'  →

Posted in Professional development

The term ends and one would hope for more inspirational news from our political and system leaders. The above headline is from the ABC website and I am assuming it […] 

The Digital Revolution at DHS – Laptop Proposal  →

Posted in Professional development

DHS needs to plan creatively and carefully in order to position the school effectively to reap the benefits of the Federal Governments funding of the ‘digital revolution’ for 2009 and […] 

March 2015: My Reading  →

Posted in Education, Popular culture, Professional development

“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.”  Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has been made finding novelists writing […] 

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