Active supervision in early childhood gets reduced to "keeping an eye on children."
But the research tells a much richer story. 🧵
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We say we want agency—students who own learning, teams who take initiative, leaders who empower.
But here's the gap: we ask people to "own" work they had no voice in shaping.
That's what my new 📗 is about. It drops Apr. 28.
Where do you see this tension in your work?
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What a joy to reunite w/ the G5 team at International School of Kenya! We tackled the ? many teachers ask: How can students move from collecting notes to actually making meaning?
Synthesis = the thinking work between note-taking & drafting 💗
(Image: 1 of 4 strategies we explored)
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Getting ready for my Toddle #TIES session on Tiny Shifts for Inquiry.
Inquiry doesn’t need more hype—it needs clearer design & smarter, smaller moves. I’ll be sharing practical, research-informed shifts you can use right away.
Plus: #TIES is free.
Register - hubs.li/Q03-7lGg0
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A card filled w/ reflections from folks at CWBS in HK—strategies to try, ideas to explore...
This is what happens when professional learning honors teachers’ expertise & local context, & stays grounded in real classrooms.
Grateful for the trust & generosity of this community. 💝
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Punitive vs. restorative: it’s more than words. It’s a mindset shift.
Teachers at the International School of Bucharest explored how small shifts in language = stronger community, safer classrooms, and more durable behavior change.
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An orange moon over Hong Kong last night—after a day of professional learning at Clearwater Bay School.
Today: inside classrooms at Renaissance College Hong Kong, seeing agency-rich Writers’ Workshop with students.
Research illuminates. Teachers make it live.
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Arrived in 🇭🇰 just in time for sunset after a long, delayed journey thru Europe. Grateful to collaborate w/Clearwater Bay School & Renaissance College HK on research-informed literacy.
Tomorrow, we get to work—listening closely, thinking carefully, & learning alongside one another.
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Final Tiny Shift of the season!
Real instructional growth doesn’t happen in isolation.
It happens together.
Co-planning. Co-teaching. Shared sense-making.
That’s where improvement becomes sustainable.
🎥 Tiny Shift No. 16: Improve Together, Not in Isolation
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Tiny Shift No. 15: Start at the edges, not the center.
#UDL isn’t about adding supports later.
It’s about removing barriers before students ever hit them.
Low floors. Wide walls. Reinforced corners. High (or no) ceilings.
That’s how learning becomes expansive.
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Tiny Shift No. 14:
Design for everyone, not just someone.
UDL isn’t flashy—it’s simple moves that remove barriers before they appear:
• sentence stems
• icons
• body language
• clarity that supports all learners
When access comes first, deeper learning follows.
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Fog lifting over Tirana. ✈️
Off to the International School of Billund for two days of learning around UDL, differentiation, and inclusive design across the IB.
Here’s to light, clarity, and learning that helps everyone rise. ☀️
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🎧 Listening is leadership.
Because trust—the soil where agency grows—starts when people feel heard, not managed.
🎥 Tiny Shift No. 13: Listening as Leadership
Filmed while working on a puzzle 🧩 because that’s how the pieces come together.
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W/ incredible leaders at IS Älmhult—testing the Evidence-to-Action Framework in action.
Tiny shift, big impact: Ts stopped chasing levels & started asking, “What might this student need next?”
The framework makes that simple. Download here: www.tonyagilchrist.com/evidence-to-...
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We talk a lot about what to add to teaching.
But real growth? It’s just as much about what we’re willing to unlearn.
Sometimes, letting go IS the learning. 🌊
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I loved closing the loop w/ Radford College’s IB PYP specialists this week—after a year of building assessment-capable learners together! 🌿
I'm grateful for leaders who invest in specialist-specific PL & in growth over time, not one-off learning.
#just4you #EDUsky #IBPYP #assessmentcapablelearners
With AISG’s G5 team this morning, we explored a few tiny shifts that help students reason and problem-solve more deeply in mathematics (and beyond!)
Wait. Revoice. Compare. Connect.
When students can say their thinking, they can grow their thinking.
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I ❤️ working w/ G3 at AISG!
We explored how healthy scaffolds can keep expectations high while opening access for plurilingual readers & writers.
Sometimes it’s the tiny shifts—a sentence stem, a sketch, a multilingual partner talk—that raise participation for everyone.
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The best professional learning doesn’t fade—it lives.
Tiny Shift No. 11: See learning not as an event, but as a way of being.
When we LIVE what we learn—through our language, our choices, our planning—it sticks.
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A great lit coach in Seoul shared this: Tiny Shift 6 in the teachers’ restroom!
“...We need to see literacy not as a subject, but as the current that flows through everything we teach.”
I love that this message is literally part of the daily current of school life.🌊😉
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Within an hour of our Conferring for Every Reader session ending, I spotted this on the G1 planning table—created by a G1 teacher for teammates who couldn’t attend.💛
That’s the kind of community you’ll find at IS Kenya: reflective, collaborative, & committed to growing together.🌿📚
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I'm excited to spend the week at the International School of Kenya! 🇰🇪
All week, we're exploring The Reading We Need—how reading + UDL nurture agency, access, and deep learning for every child. 💛📚
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#WordStudy doesn’t need to be complicated.
With AISG’s G5 team, we explored tiny shifts that make Word Study both more equitable & more sustainable.
One shift: short, 5-minute Word Study routines that spark curiosity, build shared language, & connect across reading & writing.💡
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Thinking is powerful.
But when students have agency in HOW they think—that’s transformative.
A tiny shift w/ a big impact: use positive presuppositions in your talk.
“Can you explain?”→simply tests.
“What led you to that idea?”→assumes capability.💗
I ❤️ed exploring this w/ AISG!
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Labels flatten learners.
Evidence reveals them.
Tiny shift: less labeling, more listening, noticing, and responding.
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Sometimes the most powerful teaching move isn’t what we say, but the silence we hold.
When we pause, we give students space to think, process, and find their own words.
That’s where learning sparks. ✨
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Teachers at IS Billund co-created what UDL, differentiation, & responsive teaching mean in their context. 🌱
From Early Years through the IB MYP, we built a shared vision. I can’t wait to keep going when I’m onsite in November!
#just4you #EDUsky #UDL #Differentiation #StudentAgency
Just wrapped 3 days at SMIC Private School, diving into UDL + differentiation.
Elementary: Workshop approach to maximize both
Secondary: Differentiation across disciplines + teacher choice sessions
Featured in Tiny Shift #7: Warm Demander stance 👇
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