by Mark Brown | Jan 19, 2023 | News
DRAFT – IF YOU’RE HERE THIS BLOG IS IN PROGRESS BUT I’D LOVE TO TELL YOU MORE… CALL US! After almost 17 years of teaching you’d think I’d have it figured out. Yet there I was, teaching in the “ideal school” that I...
by Mark Brown | Oct 4, 2022 | News
“Hope for a better plan and a better teacher and a better outcome is merely that – hope. Hope means nothing until it meets action.” Midway through my career, in another country than this, I found myself sitting at a team meeting. The regular...
by Mark Brown | Aug 1, 2022 | News
Over the last few days I have had the opportunity, while out representing our school at local events, to speak to members of the general public. To my surprise many people have heard how we were open post March Break 2021 for many weeks while the public schools...
by Mark Brown | Jul 20, 2022 | News
I was sitting in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom with 41 Heads of School. Our professor, Sir Chris Woodhead, her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, who famously was fired shortly after remarking that there were “15,000 incompetent teachers” in the UK, strode...
by Mark Brown | May 24, 2022 | News
Spending Time versus Spending Money On Thursday evening our students hosted a ‘Student Spectacular’ that was designed to share some of our recent learning at Headwaters. We had close to 50 attendees, most of them (naturally being) parents and...
by Mark Brown | Oct 21, 2021 | News
“The mainstream is a myth that those in power create to relegate, to adjudicate, and to ensure that the social power structures of society prevail. In complying with this system we miss so much possibility, we squash far too many dreams, and we lose too much of...
by Mark Brown | Sep 16, 2021 | News
Traditional Values; Modern Approach; Excellent Outcomes “This is what school should be. I mean, not to take anything away from what you’re doing – it’s so obvious that this is how kids learn. [Long pause]… thank you for...
by Mark Brown | Jun 21, 2021 | News
The New Grade 9 Math Curriculum: An Error in Design or Dismantling Excellence? The Ministry of Education in Ontario recently released a new Grade 9 Mathematics curriculum. The biggest change, by far, was a move to de-stream Grade 9 Math. Math will...
by Mark Brown | Mar 18, 2021 | News
When You Get it Right “Something right is happening at that school”. “They are such a wonderful group.” “Impressive.” We had a field trip today – something that has been...
by Mark Brown | Mar 14, 2021 | News
How Excellence Happens “Schools are for the education of children.” I was sitting in a 17th century church in Britain, just arrived off my overnight flight to start my Masters of Education. Our professor opened with this statement and then stood...
