by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Case Studies
At Penrhos College in Perth, Australia there is some big learning happening. We’ve been lucky enough to take part in it, too. With the help of the Essential Fluencies and the 10 Shifts of Practice, young students at Penrhos are taking charge of learning and... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Case Studies
“We can no great things, only small things with great love,” Mother Teresa instructed. This is certainly true of the Pre-Primary students of Penrhos College in Perth, Australia. But they recently put this wisdom into practice when they used Solution... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Case Studies
Fostering positive classroom environments is the easiest and most valuable thing we can do for our students as educators. Besides providing relevant connections to learning and mindful assessment practices, this matters perhaps more than anything. Why, then, must we... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Case Studies
Is the idea of primary students solving world hunger hard to believe? Not according to Lindsay Doughty, a primary school teacher at GEMS Dubai American Academy. She became inspired recently by a story we shared about students reporting what they considered the world’s...