The Learning Project at St Mary’s

As you may remember, the word wiki comes from Hawaii and means ‘quickly’. Our learning projects wiki is now established and will be the repository for all our research materials, our wide reading and the data from our enquiries. In time, it will be made available to our Board of Directors and our parents.

Each coordinator has been given a folder on the wiki, which you can do with whatever you please! Keith has already begun to work on his blog, so I’m sure his wiki will not be far behind.

It would be appropriate to place copies of documents, surveys, images and recordings into this space so that they are accessible to other researchers and so that we can offer each other support and critique as we proceed.

No need to get too carried away… we don’t want people suffering from Wiki-envy!

Well that is what the subject coordinators have been given for 2008.

They headed in to this new year with the resources to study, measure, design and implement a plan to improve student engagement and learning outcomes. Using the principles which underpin the NSW Quality Teacher Framework, these leaders and their teams will create a cycle of action learning as courageous and innovative as their imaginations will allow.

This blog, and the associated wiki is the repository for our research.

70 hours! Imagine how many questions you could ask in 70 hours! Imagine how much our students could tell us if we listened with intent to their voices! Imagine how we could grow as teachers if we took the time to read, reflect, argue and dream.

Any teacher will tell you time is precious – but this time is sacred.