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Damian Rentoule
Dec 15 min read
Innovation in Education: Authenticity and appreciative inquiry
Innovation in a school context is the process of thoughtfully implementing new practices that enhance teaching and learning. This may not...
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Damian Rentoule
Nov 94 min read
The Changing Face of Inclusion in IB Education
There is no shortage of disturbing news flooding our social media channels on a daily basis. However, if we can turn our attention for a...
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Damian Rentoule
Jan 23 min read
The Origin of School Culture (Part 1)
We all exist within complex bubbles of interconnected and ever-shifting cultures whenever we step through the front doors of our schools....
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Damian Rentoule
Oct 2, 20215 min read
A Child’s World and Language Learning
Young children develop language in order to make sense of their world through a process of inquiry. In order to support our children to...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Transferred posts & a wave or two
As I have only recently opened this website, most of the blog posts below have been transferred over from my original blog, Principal...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Just keep paddling
After some time in the water yesterday morning, I thought I’d share a few reflections on life using seven images that I had the...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
We decide who we see in the mirror tomorrow.
(Image: Me, on the right with a green shirt that says, ‘Here comes trouble’. I had just started Grade 1 which meant, in the early 70s at...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
A few notes on ‘3 of Me’ – an upcoming project by @AmyBurvall
(Image: My old friend Soba, responsible for takeaway number three. I loved our walks.) I was recently asked by the inspirational...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Creativity requires us to cultivate our procrastination, not reject it.
(Image: Me, roughly 15 years after learning to write. Just finished a degree in English Literature. All dressed up and nowhere to go,...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
You have to walk the dog.
(Image: Me, 40 years since I walked into my Grade 1 classroom not knowing an A from a B. Having learnt a few lessons along the way and...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
A wooden brain
(Image: A human brain, of sorts. Beautiful shot by @amyburvall.) What does the image represent to me in an educational context? A...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Enthusiasm & Engagement
(Image: A house holding her story. Image, with appreciation:http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-HorseChestnut-Hist...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Wild meat, bully burgers & honest advice
Students received some very honest advice last week from Lois-Ann Yamanaka, prominent contemporary Hawaiian author. As a former English...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Intellectual Risk: What tethers us?
One of the ten International Baccalaureate (IB) Learner Profile attributes is Risk-taker. As we know that our brains react to both...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
True Beauty
(Image: Self portrait by Abbie Rentoule) The image above is one of my favorite pieces or art, a self-portrait by my wonderful younger...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Thinking multilingual
(Image: When a building is not just a building. Words are like this.) Our basic unit of meaning is the word. Each word matches an image...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Lessons learned on the bikes
It was a 450km cycling trip over 6 days, camping along the way. I accompanied the group of 6 high school students and 3 teachers for the...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
Patterns in conversations and what they can teach us
(Image: Going further with your conversations. These two questions are posed to an Early Childhood 3&4 year-old class at Hiroshima...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20202 min read
What me I’ll be?
(Image: I never would have thought that part of the ‘me I’ll be’ would involve raising chickens, among other surprises along the way.)...
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Damian Rentoule
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Love, Respect & the Legitimacy of a Child’s World
(Image: ‘To have respect for children is more than recognizing their potentialities in the abstract.’The Hundred Languages of...
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