Collaborative planning at my school continues to be a precious time where we listen to each other’s perspectives, challenge our thinking and explore new possibilities and solutions.

The pandemic stopped me from being engaged, focused, curious and creative. So, here it is, an acknowledgement of what I am grateful for this past year.

Students use the materials in our small creative recycling centre in new and unexpected ways.

Looking back on our first unit, we decided to create a piece of pedagogical documentation to reflect on what we learned as a group about ‘who we are’.

25 days of relationships building with people, spaces and materials is now behind us. There has been time to play; to discover shared interests, new possibilities with materials and develop friendships.

When children choose to engage with something, that magical moment of wonder and curiosity, they show us what they want to learn and think about.

I stumbled across an online conversation about agency. The thread contained fascinating comments and poignant questions, yet it left me with a slight sense of discomfort.

I took part in an educational retreat at the Opal School in Portland Oregon, where we were invited to consider the connections between empathy, agency and change-making.

Eliminating the word ‘just’ from our vocabulary will help us to focus our thinking on children’s competencies and their ability to learn.

Learning and teaching in my classroom changed significantly when I started intentional documentation.

Materials can help us with both expressing and developing our ideas, perspectives and understandings.

While in today’s world change is constant, the ‘Developmentally Appropriate Practice’ (DAP) seems to remain unexamined.