Last season taught me something fundamental: balancing agency in transdisciplinary learning isn’t just about student choice — it’s about creating collaborative curriculum design that honours multiple perspectives. That insight has become my through-line, the thread I keep pulling because it connects to everything else I’m trying to figure out. The unfinished business? How to best…
Balancing Agency in Transdisciplinary Learning
This is a journey of collaboration. My Cohort 21 Action Plan centered around the question: “How might we leverage and balance student agency and teacher agency in a transdisciplinary course?” This focus emerged naturally from my PhD research on teacher inquiry and transdisciplinary curriculum design, creating a meaningful bridge between my academic work and classroom practice. What…
Values Exercise
Last night, C21 coaches we were taken through a Values Exercise with Garth Nichols (@gnichols) and Graham Vogt (@gvogt): “You are the average of the 5 people that you spend the most time with.” We made a list of the 5 people, and then I used Brene Brown’s – Dare to Lead, List of Values…
Action Plan
How might we design/deepen our curriculum for educators + students in order to learn and amplify missing voices and perspectives? This question guided my inquiry and action plan – and I was surprised I didn’t change it too often! I wrote it in my notebook, on a sticky note on my desk and kept seeing…
Next Steps + Sharing
It has been nice to take part of March Break to reflect on the year that seems to be flying by, as they all do, but this year even more so. I’ve had a chance to read, listen, meet and talk with other educators and it has been inspiring. Some highlights: Listening & Learning from…
Setting Intentions…
Like many, I started out with SO many questions and worked them down to one (so far): How might we design/deepen our curriculum for educators + students in order to learn and amplify missing voices and perspectives? This is a guiding question for me in all the areas of my work – teaching Digital Wisdom,…
Urgent vs Important – Reflections on the return to school
Urgent vs Important What happens when they are both? Or which one takes hold of you on a given day? For myself, at the centre of this is most likely, anything to do with my students – they are always important and at times urgent as well. So the matrix points us to DO. As…