Shane Leaning

Use retrieval practice to make conference learning stick:

Retrieve: Explain one idea from memory.
Check: Compare with a reliable source and fill the gaps.
Space: Return to it later.

Our own learning deserves the same attention as our students’.

I’ve shared quite a few of my strategies for managing the intensity of conferences. Here’s one of my favourites: opting for a cold, lighter lunch.

We’ve all felt that urge for a post-lunch snooze! 😴

I find this really helps me avoid that afternoon slump. Plus this was YUM!

Great start to the International Curriculum Conference.

We are focused on making sure learning from this conference is effective for all. So before everyone headed to their workshops, I spent half an hour guiding them through one of my favourite pessimistic tools, the pre-mortem

Today I had the treatiest of treats spending time with some of my favourite leaders in Singapore!

Thanks Chris Timms for inviting me along and to the awesome David Ingram and Tom Nolan for the chats and INCREDIBLE food.

Dulwich College - What a school!

A child gets pulled from history for intervention. They come back to a gap.

Alex Fairlamb on why that’s segregation, not inclusion, and what to do instead:

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