An Article about learning and creating change

Let's Try Reframing article by K Christopherson

This article looks at creating change
An excerpt ' Creating an environment where ideas thrive is foundational to making changes that substantially change the learning environment of a school. High expectations are important — helping people reach them is the role of leader. Holding people accountable is important but providing them the opportunity to try new things, make mistakes and deeply reflect on the what they learn is essential to improvement. People who are afraid to try will stop if they perceive that the consequences for trying are negative or are not connecting to a vision of improvement in learning. To give people room to meet the challenges ahead, leaders need to provide the support for taking risks while also having the expectation that if something isn’t successful there will be reflection making adjustments and moving forward. Leaders create an atmosphere for growth when they use questions to challenge others to see where things might lead, to introduce different perspectives, and provide opportunity for there to be multiple solutions.
Another good question is asked
“Would students still come if school wasn’t mandatory?”
As I look to plan content for my classes next year I wonder- would students come to my classes if they didn't have too? 
I want to challenge my students to explore, question, collaborate, create and share with others as they are learning. 

Socrative Rocket Race

Today I assigned a measurement time quiz to my middle group of Year 9 students. There were three randomly selected rocket teams and Magenta won. Students were pretty good at 24-hour time but I see that we still need to work on calculating the length between two times.

For the rest of the period students found  a table of links to various online measurement games which I posted on Classroom. It was great to see pairs of students getting really competitive with their scores.

Google Classroom and a Statistics Assessment using Google Doc

Today I chose to upload a google.doc statistics investigation to Classroom for my Level One students. The assignment was shared to each student's folder. The students found their random sample from CensusAtSchool and pasted the graphs and stats into the google doc. They continued to analyse the data (with quite a bit of scaffolding) and write a conclusion.
The advantage of this is that I can open each students doc and see the work they did today and write comments very easily. I can also attach a marking rubric using doctopus and this can feedback to students by email.
A couple of students found it difficult to analyse their graphs on the computer screen and preferred to print out the graphs.
This photo shows the first page of the assignment where the student has written a brief question and plan and pasted in the graphs