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Environments speak (and not so softly)

Posted on 11 September 20114 July 2019 by Jill McLachlan

Our educational environments speak powerfully about our expectations of students and our beliefs about what learning can look like in schools. Only last week, I found myself reconsidering the ‘space’ I work in. Three days a week I work as a Year 4 teacher at my local public school. My space just fits me and…

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Be kind

Posted on 1 June 20114 July 2019 by Jill McLachlan

Introducing Vivian Gussin Paley Conversation with Young Children: Fantasy, Friendship, Fairness & Other Urgent Topics on Every Child’s Mind Recorded November 14 2008 Click here to watch video on YouTube. Two wonderful titles from Vivian Gussin Paley: A child’s work: the importance of fantasy play The kindness of children

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Struggle – a decided advantage

Posted on 24 January 20114 July 2019 by Jill McLachlan

I was encouraged today as I read from one of the many unfinished books lying on my desk: “Far from being a disadvantage, struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would lie dormant forever without it” (Napoleon Hill, 1928, p.103). That’s a relief. I struggle with so many things. I struggle to…

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Sticking together

Posted on 23 November 20104 July 2019 by Jill McLachlan

“The project of democracy must never be transformed into or understood as a singular and individual struggle… teachers should always stick together as they challenge the system so that their struggle is effective” (Freire, 2005, p.12). I am reading Freire’s (2005) work, Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to those who dare teach. Already I am challenged,…

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