Damian RentouleJun 21, 20201 minTransferred posts & a wave or twoAs I have only recently opened this website, most of the blog posts below have been transferred over from my original blog, Principal Int...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minJust keep paddlingAfter some time in the water yesterday morning, I thought I’d share a few reflections on life using seven images that I had the opportuni...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minWe 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 ...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minA 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 @AmyBurv...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minCreativity 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, lit...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minYou 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 ex...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minA wooden brain(Image: A human brain, of sorts. Beautiful shot by @amyburvall.) What does the image represent to me in an educational context? A #blimag...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minEnthusiasm & Engagement(Image: A house holding her story. Image, with appreciation:http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-HorseChestnut-Hist...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minWild meat, bully burgers & honest adviceStudents received some very honest advice last week from Lois-Ann Yamanaka, prominent contemporary Hawaiian author. As a former English t...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minIntellectual 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 physic...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minTrue 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 dau...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minThinking 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 i...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minLessons learned on the bikesIt 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 ...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minPatterns 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 Intern...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minWhat 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.) Wh...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minLove, 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 Children(20...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minA lesser place in your absence…(Image: A surfer at Sunset Beach, Hawaii – not quite making it over. The waves would break just as well, even if she wasn’t there. Life c...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minProcrastination and the magic of ‘otherness’(Image: Look at your reading selection. These happened to be sitting on my desk as I was writing. It’s an indication of the range of diff...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20201 minThe mystery of identity(Image: How much do we choose to reveal?) This hauntingly beautiful creature gave me a bit of a fright last summer on a trip to Australia...
Damian RentouleJun 6, 20202 minCuriosity and language learningAttempting to explain relationships between concepts that language ability does not accommodate – yet. (Image: An image by an anonymous G...