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I went to the blogging drop in center to do a little reflecting and type up a few blog entries. Unfortunately, I was so busy talking with people like Jim Wenzloff, Jack McLeod, and Will Richardson that I never got a chance to! Then I went to the afternoon reflection time and was […]

Christopher Tan, Tamil Selvam Chareston, and Mohd Paruk are presenting Learning Communities in a Singapore Primary School. I’m looking forward to hearing some more about what they’re doing, Chris really piqued my curiosity yesterday.
The school is called Shuqun primary school. The main focus was the pedagogy, the process itself of the […]

Mike Lloyd, Education marketing Manager Microsoft UK. The tile is expanding minds for a shrinking planet. I didn’t realize when I came here that he was working for Microsoft, but I won’t hold that against him. It does explain why he was one of the only people who asked to hear the […]

Note: Jack MacLeod blogged this session as well, and got quite a bit of information that I missed. You can read his summary here.
Keynote for Day 2 is Sir Dexter Hutt on Transformational Leadership in Schools: the journey from good to great. He had a great little icebreaker which I won’t even try […]

Jon and I decided to grab some dinner at the bar downstairs. We saw Paul, Mike and John looking for a table and invited them to join us. After a spirited conversation about sports, TV and the most repulsive food items you can possibly imagine, we were joined by Jim and Chris, a […]

Just got back from doing a little canoeing with the rest of the crew. Once it started raining, there didn’t seem to be too much of a point to trying to stay dry. I think that’s about when the splash wars started up! Anyway, you can check out all of my photos […]

Reflection time. One other thing that I really like about this conference (amongst all the others) is that everyone gets together at the end of the day and reflects together. You would think that it would be common sense for a conference to build in reflection time, but it’s actually pretty rare. […]

This session is being presented by Paul Bradshaw (p.bradshaw@liverpool.gov.uk). I met him last year at BLC and have been looking forward to hanging out again this year. I didn’t even know he was presenting, so this was a pleasant surprise.
I love the fact that he has CD’s for everyone with all […]

I’m about to see Diane Lewis do the same keynote that she did last year here. I wonder how many other people go for second helpings of workshops they really enjoyed before. It was one of the most memorable presentations from last year, and I know I’ve forgotten a ton from it. […]

Good morning! It’s interesting that I feel obligated to lead off with greetings dependent on time for some odd reason. We’re just getting started at the opening session. The conference does seem to have a podcast, but I couldn’t find the feed last night (of course, I didn’t look TOO hard) and […]

Welcome to the first post of what is sure to be an onslaught from the 2005 Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
I’m here with a few co-workers and it didn’t take long for the world to start feeling a little smaller. I stopped by the front desk to ask how I […]