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Phew! Time flies when you’re busy! It’s hard to believe we’re on week three of summer holidays already and our first trip back to Germany since we last lived in Munich three years ago is already over. Clearly I’m going to be doing very little writing over the next six weeks or so (not so [...]

I just had a fantastic meeting with two of our wonderful grade 5 teachers, Sandra and Diane, to brainstorm ways to naturally embed 21st century literacy skills into our (Lucy Caulkins) Readers’ Workshop (RW) units of study for next school year (Reading is a school focus for next year). The grade 5 team is looking [...]

This year I’ve been fortunate to meet many of my edublogger friends in person. It started with Learning 2.0 where I got to meet Jeff Utecht, Clay Burell, Wes Fryer, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson (and I also was fortunate to spend lots of time with Susan Sedro, who I had met the year before [...]

Wow! It’s hard to believe the Comment Challenge is almost half-over! The past week has been insanely busy with our move downtown and three sets of friends arriving in Bangkok back-to-back. It’s been an absolute pleasure to host our guests (including the wonderful Susan Sedro and Chrissy Hellyer) in our lovely new apartment, but having [...]

As much as I would like to post all of the activities day by day here on Always Learning, we are just about to move into our fantastic new apartment in downtown Bangkok (we currently live out by the school in the suburbs of the city), and I have no idea when my internet will [...]