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Beyond knowledge to deep learning

Beyond knowledge to deep learning

As we embark on a new chapter at NBCS, we have been reflecting on learning, and what, in the end, it entails. Student learning operates on a number of levels as they learn content, skills, attributes and character. The content in any given class or lesson matters, and...
Beyond knowledge to deep learning

People and purpose

 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. – Matthew 6:33-34 Correction does much, but...
Beyond knowledge to deep learning

A lesson in love

  This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.  – 1 John 3:16 “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love” is attributed to the German writer Goethe. It’s a phrase...
Beyond knowledge to deep learning

The long game

I have made a career from believing in students more than they have believed in themselves. I encourage others to do the same. It helps students to see the world, and their place in it, in a different light. Their world grows. They understand that they are agents in...
Beyond knowledge to deep learning

Reading for success

In 2012, the Education Standards Research Team in the UK compiled the Research Evidence on Reading for Pleasure report. It found that reading for pleasure had educational benefits, supported personal development and had a positive impact on reading including: reading...
Beyond knowledge to deep learning

Principles that guide and inspire

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,...