First we must check-in....
September, 2021 - First, we check in , stabilize as needed and then we can talk about amplifying. First, we need to check in….. I think a...
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Feb 9, 20214 min read
Building practices for great equity: Careful engagement in Collaborative Learning
Collaborative learning and collaboration are terms we use loosely in education and yet they represent complex concepts. We want students...
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Nov 5, 20204 min read
Unpacking Key Learning Myths
Very suddenly, it seems, our educational contexts were transformed because of Covid19. All learning contexts at all levels of education...
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Aug 11, 20204 min read
Moving towards reporting Progress..... Personal Coaching Notes
– Beate Planche Ed.D. June 2019 How do I assess/collect evidence in Reading? We collect evidence through oral reading – fluency and...
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Aug 4, 20203 min read
Reflections on school leadership in uncertain times.
In thinking about the journey to become a school leader, my years in education have reinforced that becoming a leader is clearly complex...
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Mar 30, 20206 min read
Learning in the time of a Pandemic:
It is surreal to reflect on how much our lives have changed in the past few weeks – from visiting with friends and family to waving at each
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Jun 18, 20192 min read
How can schools become learning arboretums?
In 2006, Stephanie Pace Marshall wrote about the fact that science was becoming increasing clear on the interdependence of living...
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May 17, 20192 min read
How can we harness the conditions for sustainable improvement?
“If theories of action do not include the harder questions – ‘Under what conditions will continuous improvement happen?’ and,...
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Mar 23, 20192 min read
Momentum and the positive side of constraints
Momentum and the positive side of Constraints! March 22, 2019 Educators are often people who like to move forward, do something,...
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Feb 26, 20192 min read
Momentum – what does it mean to school improvement efforts?
What does it mean to move learning forward as a school? Momentum is movement with some force or power behind it, in my opinion. How do...
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Jan 23, 20191 min read
Welcome to my updated website!
Renewal is a good thing! I will add new blog writing on a monthly basis and I hope you can check it out and offer me some further...
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Jan 14, 20192 min read
A protocol to analyze successful professional learning
Happy New Year! The best thing about a new year is the new opportunity we have to continue our learning as educators – another...
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Dec 7, 20182 min read
EMOTIONS AND LEARNING
One of the sessions I attended recently at the CSLEE conference in Houston was on the role of emotions in moral decision making. It was...
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Aug 7, 20182 min read
LEARNING FORWARD ONTARIO’S ONE DAY INSTITUTE IN STRATFORD, ONTARIO
Blending coaching and facilitation skills for positive impact in schools. School Improvement August, 2018 School improvement efforts...
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Apr 18, 20188 min read
Growing Understanding – An Important Part of Transforming Learning
By Beate Planche |Originally published in The Learning Exchange Blog April 18, 2018 As the Ontario Ministry of Education report on Phase...
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Sep 10, 20173 min read
REFLECTIONS ON BUILDING ASSESSMENT LITERACY
As a team, with members across areas and schools, we put our understandings on the table – and supported each other’s thinking as we...
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Sep 6, 20177 min read
Leadership Resiliency – A Personal Attribute and an Organizational Necessity
Abstract: Leadership resiliency is increasingly a needed personal attribute as well as an organizational necessity. This article...
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Apr 17, 20174 min read
Deepen Classroom Collaboration by Refining Your Leadership Skills
By Beate Planche | Originally published in The Learning Exchange Blog April 17, 2017 Applicable to every level of a school system,...
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Aug 11, 20163 min read
SUPPORTING AND NURTURING THE GROWTH OF OTHERS
“Am I good enough, can I contribute enough, will my ideas be accepted?” This candid reflection by a teacher leader remains with me years...
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Sep 15, 201014 min read
TEN POWERFUL LEARNING CONDITIONS FOR TEACHER LEARNING
Capacity building efforts in schools in Ontario, Canada have taken root and promising improvements in student achievement are evident in...
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