Hello everyone, I hope you
are all happy and well and if you are a teacher or student, looking forward to the new academic year! I am so excited about what this year holds ahead for myself, my students, my colleagues and the school community where I work in terms of learning and the achievement that comes from it.
So yesterday Room 21 joined the learning revolution! First things first, I would
just like to say thank you so much to my family, friends, my colleagues and my past,
current and future students, who have allowed me the opportunity to follow my imagination
and who inspire me every day to be the best teacher that I can. I would
particularly like to thank the Year 9 and Year 11 students at St. James’ Catholic High School who
have been instrumental in helping make my imagination a reality. Thank you so much for all you have done
to help me, I will never forget it. A quick message to my past, present and any future students who read this...if you learn one
thing from this process I hope it is this…never be afraid to follow
your dreams and ambitions and never be afraid to make a mistake! As a genius
once said,
“anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new.”
A. Einstein.
I would also like to say a
special thank you to a person who provided the initial spark that captured my
imagination, informed me that there is a different way to educate the most
important individuals on our planet and began this little adventure of ours! If
you don’t already know who Ken Robinson is (unlikely, I know!), after you have
finished reading this, I can not recommend enough watching/listening to his
inspirational talk (see below) and simply imagining his vision of education. It
is truly wonderful!
Over the 2014-15 academic
year, we would like to share with fellow teachers and educators everywhere,
Room 21’s vision of the future of education. We would like to see if our vision
resonates with you and if it does, we need all your passion, intelligence and
help to make our vision a reality, as we truly believe it is achievable and
realistic in our life times. Events have already
transpired in the last three years that have made everything that we have done
so far already so incredibly worthwhile. I very much hope to be able to show
you everything that has occurred in the near future. Please stay tuned to find
out!
I wish everyone a very happy
and enjoyable 2014-15 academic year, full of learning and the achievement that
comes from it. Here is the inspiration and why we do what we do in Room 21.
