Lifelong learning, one reflection at a time.
There is no great time to launch yet another initiative. After our second face-to-face we were in the throes of the pre-December rush, and it seemed like a bad time to start. After the winter break we were in the throes of gathering data for Semester 1 final reports, and I wouldn’t have dreamed of […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Now that I am back to blogging it seems that at some points during my day I am thinking through ideas for several blog posts at a time if I let my brain ‘flow.’ My recent thoughts for posts surround topics such as: Christmas feelings and what to do about them; How failing forward looks […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
I am leading a photography club during the winter trimester at Rosseau Lake College. The premise is simple: I issue a challenge each week and each student attempts to meet the challenge, either during one of our times together or at some other moment during the week. It’s pretty loose, and the point is to […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
I woke up this morning thinking about Conference of Independent Schools schools. Aside from knowing that CIS exists and that Cohort 21 is for CIS Ontario educators I felt rather ignorant overall, so I made coffee and sat down to do some data mining. We have been given a Cohort 21 WordPress account for blogging, […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Step 1: Back when we were all riding high on the good vibes of our first face-to-face encounter I was sure that the urgent needs of the learners in my charge boiled down to skills development: problem solving, resiliency, and making connections. The inability of students to troubleshoot problems with their own computers stood large […]
Written by Leslie Farooq