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meredithspragg@gmail.com

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Literacy Consultants & Consulting Services | Erin Kent Consulting

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About the Community | Erin Kent Consulting (EKC)

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A few special gifts for signing up now: a strategy call with Erin Kent or an EKC Senior Strategist to get started using the EKC Community to support your current literacy initiatives; and 5 free spots in our live, virtual winter courses ($1495 value!)

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Making Learning Visible: Children As Individual and Group Learners

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Making Learning Visible- Children As Individual and Group Learners 

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The Art of Awareness, Second Edition: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

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The Art of Awareness, Second Edition- How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

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Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education

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Learning Stories- Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education

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Purposeful Play

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Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Play and Inquiry

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The Language of Art

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Inquiry-based Early Learning Environments

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Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition: Transforming Early Childhood Environments

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Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition- Transforming Early Childhood Environments 

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Strive for Five

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Visual thinking Strategies for Preschool

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Visual thinking Strategies for Preschool

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Choosing and Honing A Question: Project Zero

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SFS EY_Planning for and Responding to Play

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On this page you will find Learning Stories from Aotearoa/New Zealand, and from all over the world. Some of these stories come from previous Celebrating Learning Stories conferences, others have been written and shared with ELP as part of teachers's learning journeys. We hope that you can enjoy these stories, and find inspiration in writing your own!

Please also take a look at our ELP Learning Story Assessment Facebook Group. This group has been created by ELP as a place for teachers to share Learning Stories. Important: please remember to seek parental permission if the learning story has a photo or alternatively take out or blur the photo before uploading.

Browse through the stories below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the options below on the right.

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On this page you will find Learning Stories from Aotearoa/New Zealand, and from all over the world. Some of these stories come from previous Celebrating Learning Stories conferences, others have been written and shared with ELP as part of teachers's learning journeys. We hope that you can enjoy these stories, and find inspiration in writing your own!

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I got a better understanding of how to use both Approaches to Learning and the Gold Standards

I got time to work and connect with my fellow Early Years teachers

We got time to come to a common understanding of what documentation will look like in the early years

I want more time moving forward to collaborate and reflect with other members of the Early Years Team

Thank you Michael for organizing this meaningful time. Thank you Damian for approving it. Thank you Meredith for sharing your knowledge and expertise. Thank you Early Years team for being so supportive, open-minded and fun to work with!

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I got a better understanding of how to incorporate academic subjects into exploration time as stations. It is really great to think about different ways to make more meaningful play in the classroom for the children.

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Got- better understanding of GOLD standards+ATL- how they can work together, time to collaborate with the team including the specialists and begin to develop a command understanding, time to explore our weekly planner and begin to use it

Want- time to continue developing our command language on documentation as a team (including learning stories), time to put GOLD standard and ATL together and develop consistent language (so we can use for documentation).

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Got - Importance of documentation, different ways of making documentation, how is a documentation different from a learning story. The learning lab in the classroom was very helpful getting ideas from different perspectives. Most of all, it was great to have time with the entire EY team discussing about learning stories and coming to an agreement.

Want - continue to have some time with the entire EY to discuss, develop and share our learning stories.

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Got- I now have clear idea of how to teach with more of a transdisciplinary mindset, also have a big picture of how to set exploration time

Want- I want more sessions like these in the future! Time to reflect together and think of best practices collaboratively

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GOTS:

clear understanding on how to mingle the ATLs and the GOLD

shared understanding on what is a learning story

shared understanding on the expectations on documentation

WANTS:

collaborative time once a month to share our learning stories and plan together

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Opal School and Project Zero - Asking Big Questions

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Cultivating Children's Creativity Through Art