As I travel the world giving keynotes and supporting schools in the development of teaching and learning, I am struck by the wonderful quality of innovation in education. This is where I share some of the best ideas in the hope that it will inspire and help you to connect with others. For overseas friends, there is a Google Translator and a Glossary of Terms at the bottom of the page.
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Thursday, 26 February 2009
Thinking Schools Network
A new Partner Finding Site for Thinking School People has been launched (Thinking Schools Network) Available in English and "Scandinavish", the site is beginning to fill with the details of interesting schools, thinkers, innovations and speakers. The site has been set up by Bengt Lennartsson and Bitte Sundin, following their hosting of the 13th International Conference on Thinking in their home town, Norrköping (Sweden) in 2007 and the subsequent Nordic Re-Thinking conference the following year.
The aim of the site is to offer a free facility for people interested in thinking in all it's forms to share resources, ideas and contact information with each other. Members of the site can find schools interested in becoming partner schools, making student-to-student contacts and finding out about future conferences and seminars. Already there are members in many of the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. JN
Having taught in primary, secondary, middle and special schools, I am now director of my own company. Committed to the creation of world-class education through improvements in teaching and learning, communication, creativity and leadership, I have a reputation as an inspirational keynote speaker and presenter. In 2008, I was listed among the Future500 by the Observer newspaper, a "definitive list of the UK's most forward-thinking and brightest innovators"
Along the way, I have trained with Edward de Bono at the University of Malta, qualified as an EAL teacher, co-founded a multi-million pound, award-winning regeneration project (N-RAIS), been an industrial quality controller, childcare officer at a school for deaf children and done some charity work in apartheid South Africa.
Today, as well as director of Sustained Success, I am the European coordinator for the international Community Designed Education network, and co-founder of p4c.com, an international resource and collaboration website for philosophy for children
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