Kristen Smith

Assistant Principal - Primary at Hume Anglican Grammar, Melbourne. IBPYP workshop leader excited by teachers' students' and my own learning.

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Did a Celebrations-Next Steps brainstorm with my team. Achieved a lot in year 1 of a brand new campus! Bring on year 2!

[Rachel McLeod @RachelMcLeod11]

Getting ready for our staff Orientation and preparing prompts for reflection and reference for learning space design!

[Jessica Mattei, MEd @JessMattei]

14 Variables that Impact Thinking in the Classroom 💭

What an incredible list to guide my support as an instructional coach!
#thinkingclassroom @pgliljedahl

[ACER @acereduau]

We’ve partnered with @LEGOfoundation to develop a new framework to help educators better understand and improve the quality of learning through play in the school classroom. Discover more >
https://t.co/fBVj82iDAh

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Very useful resource https://t.co/wSDZRAQJeq

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Improve your #ClassroomVibe with better teacher clarity by making it clear to students what they will know, understand and be able to do by the end of a lesson @DrTimOLeary

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Ideas to develop teacher credibility to improve your #ClassroomVibe ⁦@DrTimOLeary⁩ https://t.co/4Yl4kKnu6r

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

To enhance your #ClassroomVibe know and understand your students as little people @DrTimOLeary

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Teacher improvement efforts need to focus on an evidence based need not a personal interest but should include agency over how to go about it and what it looks like. #ClassroomVibe @DrTimOLeary

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

To enhance Classroom Vibe school leaders need to improve staff room Vibe with teacher credibility and teacher clarity #ClassroomVibe @DrTimOLeary

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

@MrsOCinOz1 @steven_kolber @DrTimOLeary @vanweringh @whartonag @lfurze @keithheggart @blakeacutler @BeckRSaunders @yasodaiselva @debsnet @teacherasleader @OlivierElzingre Written by a mate of mine. Definitely worth a read.

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

Socially constructing knowledge about the #learnerprofile @ISNS_School @ibpyp

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

My classroom for today! @ISNS_School @ibpyp #learnerprofile #internationamindedness

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

What’s your favourite instructional model? #inquirymindset #EdLeadership #edchat

[Jay McTighe @jaymctighe]

Making the Most of PLCs. As the new school year ramps up, here is an article that may be relevant if your school has a structure for Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). Feel free to share this as you wish.
https://t.co/I3Ijjcpsjs

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

10 Reasons To Use Inquiry-Based Learning In Your Classroom https://t.co/FCudMvwPP6 via @TeachThoughtPD

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

#couchpeloton #toursnacks

[Markus Munday @markus_munday]

It’s astounding what students achieve when exploring and investigating. Orthography has taken off in year 1 - we have sorted word families, constructed word sums and developed a class grapheme-phoneme chart. Phonics is a part of SWI - build it with them and see what they notice🤯

[Kristen Smith @ksmith237]

I'm attending Make Math Moments Virtual Summit. Free high impact MATH PD from your couch! Hosted by @makemathmoments #mmmsummit2020

RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌

https://t.co/xOJkIwc8RK

[Markus Munday @markus_munday]

So much positivity from me to all those who are teaching, learning and helping with remote learning ✨ we’ve done it before and we can do it again! In our class we reflected on our previous Zoom agreement and made improvements - Introducing an agreement using ‘I can’ statements!