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Welcome to the Expansive Education Network
The Expansive Education Network is a professional learning
network for teachers
Expansive Education - is an approach to teaching that focuses on developing dispositions that help young people to be fulfilled and successful in their lives Why choose to be an Expansive Educator? |
Expansive webinars with Bill Lucas dates to be confirmed for 2020/21 academic year |
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Catch up on our webinars! |
1st July 2020 How to thrive in crazy times: 9 rules for changing your life and a suggestion for action research next term Covid-19 is forcing us all to rethink the way we do things. In his last webinar of the term Bill draws on research from his award-winning book rEvolution: How to thrive in crazy times to offer some timely end of school year thinking for busy teachers to reflect on. |
Webinar with Bill - click here to listen to the recording 16th June 2020 Why we need to stop talking about twenty-first century skills and start embedding dispositions for learning in all subjects in all our schools
As we neared the end of the twentieth century, with the Internet gaining in pace and scope, it was inevitable that we'd be thinking about what schools might look like in the new millennium. Many of us used 'twentieth-century skills' as a short-hand for a different kind of education. But the trouble is that the phrase has increasingly become an evangelical shout-out which polarises debate between knowledge and skills, often antagonising the many thoughtful teachers who do not see the debate in this binary way. In this webinar Bill Lucas urges us to move on from the rhetoric and focus on the evidence. Bill will outline some of the best frameworks for blending dispositions and habits of mind with knowledge and skill in schools. |
What is zest? Why does instilling curiosity matter? Why do we need all young people to find purpose and balance in their lives? How do we promote student engagement? How best do we work with outside organisations to add gusto to all that we do in schools? All of this and more will be explored!
|  Talk about character education at an interactive workshop aimed at educators
Listen to Professor Bill LucasThis was an interactive session which allowed discussion and the opportunity to ask questions to Bill Lucas Here are some of the points that came up in the discussions: |
Developing Student Creativity
Listen to the webinarDeveloping the creativity of school students has never been more important. It improves employability, enhances well-being and is needed to address the pressing problems of our Age. More than 50 countries across the world have it as an explicit part of their national curricula.
| Engineering habits of mind: what they are and how they can help us develop engineers in schools Listen to the recordingListen to Professor Bill Lucas talk about character education at an interactive workshop aimed at educators.
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Addditional holiday reading - new book Zest for learning
Authors: Prof Bill Lucas & Dr Ellen Spencer
Zest for Learning: Developing curious learners who relish real-world challenges
Zest for Learning: connects the co-curriculum with the formal curriculum, building both theoretical and practical confidence in the kinds of pedagogies which work well. It draws together a far-reaching literature exploring zest and zest-like attributes, offering schools and organisations working with schools a model of how it could be at the heart of children’s educational experiences.
Zest for Learning: is a call to action for school leaders to broaden their horizons of what school can be and to take heart from the ideas which others are already using. It is the third book in the Pedagogy for a Changing World series, which details which capabilities matter and how schools can develop them.
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