Joanne Harris Educational Consultant
Helping dedicated teachers to teach and inspire with passion
Joanne Harris Educational Consultant
Helping dedicated teachers to teach and inspire with passion
Where do I start as the memories come flooding back to the day my eldest niece was born? The first time I met her, I held her awkwardly, not because of inexperience, but because I was in plaster from the top of my arm to the tips of my fingers. Embarassingly I had broken my …
This was a question posed to us in a private group. But it has stayed with me for well over a week. The facilitator has an excellent way of leaving lasting impressions like this. For me the I had not actually considered it all before being invited to explore it… in the days since it …
It has been a long time coming, but my youngest niece Maddi’s text was so welcome to receive. She had just completed her final hospital placement and was beyond excited to share her news. The pathway to this milestone was most certainly not a straight line; with many delays and hiccups she was beginning to …
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Why is it that some of us are feeling more tired now that we have been ‘asked’ to stop in an attempt to control the spread of Coronavirus? It’s certainly more than a physical response to the world and the ‘new normal’ around us – it …
How can it be 30 years since I was a bridesmaid for my sister at her wedding? Who could have known that in 2020, which seemed forever away that we would be living life in lockdown and as if we are in a dream that you can’t seem to wake up from?? Everything seemed so …
I received a surprise gift today – completely unexpected. I was in the middle of a Zoom call when I heard someone outside telling me they were leaving a package on my door step. At first I didn’t even hear her, until she called out again to try and get my attention. A little parcel …
Today was one of those one of a kind days that was made all the more magic in its ordinariness because there were no expectations. Starting on the path it was muddy….slippery and messy…but before long it was worth persisting through it as the track dried-up and became a pillow of pine needles. It was …
I have just discovered a few new apps that I have been trialling over this long weekend. Besides my job as a preschool teacher and educational leader, I am developing teacher training programs and programs to share my best learnings with others. There are so many things that interest me, but one area that I …
Dear Teachers, What are you doing to take care of yourself right now? If like me, you have been spinning a few plates in the air since the beginning of term two you may have been thrust into a chaotic world of online learning… as well as re-acclimatising children from remote learning at home back …
For most, like me, I think I always knew it’s what I wanted to do; there might have been a clue by the way I set up my dolls and teddies facing me as I taught them to count and spell! However, who could have ever predicted that one day, well into the future that …