As I have only recently opened this website, most of the blog posts below have been transferred over from my original blog, Principal Int...

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 opportuni...

(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 ...

(Image: My old friend Soba, responsible for takeaway number three. I loved our walks.) I was recently asked by the inspirational @AmyBurv...

(Image: Me, roughly 15 years after learning to write. Just finished a degree in English Literature. All dressed up and nowhere to go, lit...

(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...

(Image: A human brain, of sorts. Beautiful shot by @amyburvall.) What does the image represent to me in an educational context? A #blimag...

(Image: A house holding her story. Image, with appreciation:http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-HorseChestnut-Hist...

Students received some very honest advice last week from Lois-Ann Yamanaka, prominent contemporary Hawaiian author. As a former English t...

One of the ten International Baccalaureate (IB) Learner Profile attributes is Risk-taker. As we know that our brains react to both physic...

(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...

(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...

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 ...

(Image: Going further with your conversations. These two questions are posed to an Early Childhood 3&4 year-old class at Hiroshima Intern...

(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...

(Image: ‘To have respect for children is more than recognizing their potentialities in the abstract.’The Hundred Languages of Children(20...

(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...

(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...

(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...

Attempting to explain relationships between concepts that language ability does not accommodate – yet. (Image: An image by an anonymous G...