Jill Sims
Planning for Positive Student Impact, Part 2: Supportive Practices
In thinking about how to plan supportive practices that might be implemented for positive student impact, we will focus on the question,...
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Jill Sims
- May 2
- 2 min
Planning for Positive Student Impact, Part 1: Process and Focus
A common goal for education is to positively impact students so that they can flourish as learners and human beings. Such a simply stated...
Jill Sims
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 4: Reflecting on Intercultural Experiences
“Reflection is a central feature of experiential education and serves the function of solidifying connection between what a student...
Jill Sims
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 3: Interacting and Empathizing for Intercultural Understanding
“A classroom full of empathetic kids simply runs more smoothly than one filled with even the happiest group of self-serving children. ” —...
Jill Sims
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 2: Actions for Nurturing Intercultural Understanding
“A Senegalese poet said ‘In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what...
Jill Sims
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Creating Caring Cultures, Part 1: Intercultural Understanding
(About the Zulu greeting, Sawubona) “It invites us to communicate why are we here at the same time? What has this moment in time given...
Jill Sims
- Jun 3, 2021
- 2 min
Inquiry Series, Part 4: What Does Inquiry Look Like from the Students’ Experience?
“If you know where they need to go you can plant the clues to help get them there.” -Madly Learning This is the last stop on our look...
Jill Sims
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Inquiry Series, Part 3: What Does the Teacher Do to Create a Community of Inquiry?
“Curiosity facilitates engagement, critical thinking, and reasoning. We nurture children’s curiosity and other life-long learning skills...