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Blogging Trends in 2020
Over the last few years, I’ve done an end-of-year wrap up in the form of a short summary. Just like the rest of the world, I find December to be a good time to pause and reflect and the year. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Ill, blogging, books, end of year, grace, leadership, learning
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Blog Word Cloud 2019
What matters to you? How is that visible to others? How do you communicate your most important values and beliefs? In the past, I have generated a word cloud from my blog’s URL to see what words I use most … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Illingworth, beliefs, core values, leading, learning, possibility, reflection, shine, word cloud
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Learning to Lead: A Self-Reflective Survey
I’ve read the book Learning Leadership by Kouzes and Posner twice now – once on my own and again as part of a book study with all the principals in my district. With each new reading, I take away a … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Illingworth, beliefs, challenge, core values, energy, inspiration, learning, reflection
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Teacher Leadership Academy
This is a blog co-written by a group of teachers who participated in the first Teacher Leadership Academy (TLA) in our district during the 2017-18 school year; I was one of the Amy administrators who created the TLA. Teacher Leadership … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Illingworth, collaboration, education, learning, reflection, teacher leadership
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Empowered Leaders Empower Learners (#IMMOOC Season 3, Week 4)
I am participating in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with hundreds of other educators across the globe, about The Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros. These are my reflections for Season 3, Week 3 of #IMMOOC, and the prompt: Relationships and collaboration … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Illingworth, collaboration, education, empower, IMMOOC, innovator's mindset, learning, reflection, relationships
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Even More Quotes That Resonate
When I read I annotate my books by underlining key words and phrases and making notes in the margins. Sometimes I underline a quote that I just can’t stop thinking about. Here is another post in my series of quotes … Continue reading
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Tagged Aguilar, Amy Illingworth, books, coaching, education, failure, leadership, learning, professional, quotes, reading
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Breaking Out of the Boxes
I recently successful broke out of two Digital Breakout EDU games by myself! Having succeeded in my mission, I reflected on why this matters. These digital challenges were created by a colleague of mine who is very creative and is … Continue reading
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Tagged adult learning, Amy Illingworth, challenge, creativity, design thinking, education, growth mindset, inquiry, learning, teaching, technology
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Five: A Survey
I read a number of healthy blogs. Many of the bloggers I follow are friends and colleagues. When one of them publishes a cute blog survey, others quickly follow. I have now read 4-5 versions of this survey and finally … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Illingworth, books, education, educoach, inspiration, leadership, learning, read16in16, survey, talent
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Question Week
Mark 13-19 is Question Week, according to Warren Berger. I appreciate that the site’s goal is to elevate the art of questioning, because “asking good questions helps us identify the right problem and generate creative solutions”. There are some … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, curiosity, education, learning, questions, teaching
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Turning Talents into Strengths
Strengths are becoming a new theme on this blog. Three years ago I wrote Coming from a place of strengths, about my reflections on my first Strength Finder experience. A month ago I wrote Using your strengths at work . When I wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged ambivert, Amy Illingworth, introvert, learning, strengths, talent, team
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