Cassie Janisch
DESIGNING THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
When I first decided that I wanted to start a school, I thought long and hard about the organisms called “human beings” and how we are...
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Cassie Janisch
Sep 11, 20238 min read
LET'S MAKE LEARNING GREAT AGAIN...
This morning I was reading a book to Kwandokuhle, a three-year-old Zulu girl in our Misty Meadows preschool group, and I started to think...
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Cassie Janisch
Aug 27, 20235 min read
The Difference Between Being Wise and Being Clever
My educational life was a glorification of being clever, rather than being wise. I think many can relate to this – all that striving for...
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Cassie Janisch
Aug 21, 20238 min read
GET IN THE ARENA
How many people do you know who live life tentatively? Always keeping one foot out of the door ready to move on when there is the...
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Cassie Janisch
May 15, 20239 min read
WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH SOMETHING
Someone shared the acronym VUCA with me this week to describe the times we are living in right now – VUCA stands for volatility,...
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Cassie Janisch
May 15, 20238 min read
ENABLING LEARNING, CREATING COMMUNITY, FINDING JOY
A few months ago we had a lady visit school and I received the following thank you message from her. I think she summed up so much of...
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Cassie Janisch
May 15, 20236 min read
SUPPORTING CHILDREN TO "KNOW THYSELF" IS OUR TOP PRIORITY
Thinking about what to prioritize as educators in these times: Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens), in his book “21 Lessons for the...
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Cassie Janisch
Oct 5, 20226 min read
WHAT IF KIDS DON'T LEARN WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO?
Imagine if every thought you ever had, and every connection you made in your head, that made perfect sense to you, was evaluated by...
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Cassie Janisch
Oct 3, 20226 min read
NURTURING NATURAL LEARNING
The Human Learning Principle: Every person continuously self-constructs their own unique meaning from all that they subjectively...
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Cassie Janisch
Sep 30, 20226 min read
HOW HUMANS LEARN
Imagine you are conducting a street quiz and you ask everybody the question: how do humans learn? No doubt lots of people would say “they...
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