Successful schools work continually to develop a culture of student, teacher and leadership learning success. Cognitive Coaching is integral to this.

Participation in this intensive workshop will equip you and/or members of your team with a set of strategies, a way of thinking and a way of working that invites self and others to shape and reshape their thinking and problem solving capacities to achieve learning success.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• The ANSN Annual Forum: An Intergenerational Youth Compact – Follow-up presentation in Canberra, plus wide media coverage
• Connecting Lives and Learning – Check out the website
• Turnaround teaching, learning and outcomes – Hubs and workshops
• Habits of Mind videos on YouTube
• Bee Bots Workshops in Queensland and Victoria
• Media coverage of the ANSN Annual Forum
• Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub – invitational sessions in Victoria
• Reminder of major Habits of Mind event #1: Creating a Mindful School 3-day workshop, Melbourne
• Reminder of major Habits of Mind event #2: Next Steps 1-day Conferences in Brisbane on 5 November and in Sydney on 6 November
• The WA Interactive Whiteboard Hub
• ANSN directions in 2009 for Dimensions of Learning and Habits of Mind 
• Curriculum Design Research Circle – progress report
• Some interesting reading (three items)
• Reminders of ANSN activities

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Digi Kids Workshops held in South Melbourne
• Digi Kids Adelaide workshop report
• Curriculum Design – a three-day Research Circle in Melbourne
• Curriculum Design – two-day intensive workshops in Melbourne and Adelaide
• One-day Early Childhood Bee Bot workshop in Melbourne
• Habits of Mind – Next Steps Conference – Brisbane and Sydney
• Connecting Lives and Learning – Website launched
• Introducing Dr Sarah Prestridge
• Two-day workshop: Communicate, Collaborate and Create
• Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Hub information sessions in Victoria
• Cognitive Coaching – Research Circle forms
• Some interesting reading
• Reminders of ANSN activities

By Hanan Harrison

Participants of the Adelaide Digi Kids continued to be challenged on their digital journey when they attended Days 3 and 4 of their Hub workshops. Their first challenge was to develop and create a claymation. The focus was not only to develop skills for the production, but also to develop a philosophy of technology integration where participants would reflect critically on their own pedagogical practices, to develop a meaningful context for introducing claymation as an additional medium for story telling, which could be used to support various literacy outcomes including recount, narratives and procedural genres, as well as a tool for reinforcing other curriculum outcomes.

Learn Coaching Skills to Support Teaching and Learning in Your School!

Australian National Schools Network and The Center for Cognitive Coaching present:

Schools conversing together: Action Learning through Coaching.

Overview

The You Yangs Learning Community Cluster (YYLC) has worked with Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies (CERES) and other environmental sustainability education agencies to enable schools to work effectively with community partners.

For the last 2 years the Australian National Schools Network has been facilitating a new professional learning program for teachers focusing on the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Over 200 teachers have taken part in the program since 2006 and participants gain a wealth of technical knowledge as well as taking part in the pedagogical discussions around the question “How do interactive whiteboards improve teacher pedagogy and student learning outcomes?”

During August and September we would like to give you and your school the opportunity to attend an information session to learn more about the Interactive Whiteboard program being offered again in 2009.

Edited by Keith Redman

Topics covered in this edition include:

• Third Annual ANSN National Forum
• Dimensions of Learning (DoL) Hub meets in NT
• Digi Kids workshops in Perth
• Digi Kids and Bee Bots: Workshops in QLD, SA and VIC
• Upcoming Habits of Mind (HoM) Conferences and Workshops with Art Costa
• Connecting Lives and Learning (CLL) – A book in the pipeline
• The Use of Protocols in Schools – Victorian workshop
• New on the ANSN web site: two key documents
• An interesting web site
• Reminders of ANSN activities

The 2 day Digi-Kids workshop was enjoyed by all participants over the school holidays.  Big thanks to Hanan Harrison and the ANSN (Australian National Schools Network) for presenting, as well as Mary Vajda from ECU for hosting the sessions.  The participants certainly had a good time and came away with an enormous amount of open ended ideas to implement into their classroom next term.

The 2006-2007 annual report is now available as a pdf download.