Learning and Growing

 I highly recommend "Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well." This book as been essential in my further understanding of providing feedback but more so receiving feedback to better support my overall growth.  I throughly enjoyed the peer feedback process. I greatly appreciate my peer's expertise and am grateful for this opportunity to receive her feedback.  My partner and I choose to use the dissertation rubric to guide our feedback. Using this took was effective in guiding and framing our feedback to each other. It was clear what elements of each chapter we would focus our feedback around and supported in my overall understanding of the feedback that I received.  I'm learning to embrace my own personal challenges to better support in my overall growth as a learner, a professional and as a transformational leader. By acknowledging my blind spots I have a sense of accepting feedback that I may disagree with but am able to take a step ba

 Something to think about......the thing that needs to change is the habits.  Habits by James Clear

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Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. Richard Louv

1. Play allows multiple opportunities and mode to reach various standards. 2. Children at play can often be found re-enacting favorite stories. 3. Play is it's own method of instruction. 4. Play is a natural learning environment for children. 5. Play give access to content and higher levels of thinking for a variety of learners. 6. Not all learners use language as a primary mode of learning and expression, some benefit from movement and physicality while learning, others express themselves through drawing or painting. This book has endless tips, strategies and research that supports play based learning. This book is a must read for all early childhood educators. Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day By: Kristin Mraz, Alison Porcelli and Cheryl Tyler Mraz,K., Procellli,A., Tyler,C. (2016)Purposeful Play:A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day

"It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act" -The Dalai Lama