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The Top 5 Benefits of Local SEO Marketing

If you have a brick-and-mortar business, local SEO is very important to bring customers your way. Google uses local ranking factors to send customers to your doors if you’re situated close to them.  If you don’t take advantage of local SEO, you’re limited to competing online with large co

Written by Maggie McGrane July 19, 2020July 21, 2020

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Why Clean Air is Vital for You and Your Family

The problem with air pollution is that it is often invisible to the naked eye, meaning that you’re inhaling it without realizing it’s there. Once the harmful toxins in the air enter your body, they can wreak havoc at will. While some of them may not do much harm, others could be deadly. You’ve

Written by Maggie McGrane July 1, 2020July 3, 2020

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What’s New and Different: The PYP Exhibition

This is my final post about what is new and different in the Enhanced PYP. Moving on from this I am going to start a series of posts about the areas of the PYP that are seeing a deeper focus and guidance in the Enhancements such as learning environments, a community of learners, inquiry, concept-bas

Written by Maggie McGrane June 11, 2020June 11, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Assessment in the PYP

This is almost my final post about what is truly new and different in the Enhanced PYP.  I still want to do a post about the Exhibition, and beyond that will start to explore the areas of the Enhancements that are more of a deeper focus or where there is more guidance.  This post is

Written by Maggie McGrane June 9, 2020June 9, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Learner Agency in the PYP

Until a couple of years ago I’d never used the word agency, and it took a bit of getting used to.  This was definitely a new word in my PYP vocabulary, but I used it all the time now, so let’s first think about what it means.  According to the section on Learner Agency in 

Written by Maggie McGrane June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Action in the PYP

I started this series of posts at the beginning of this year.  I think one of my motivations to do this was that when I visit schools or conduct workshops I’m often asked about what is new in the Enhanced PYP, and I wanted to have a clear idea in my own mind about what

Written by Maggie McGrane June 7, 2020June 7, 2020

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Dealing with difficult times

I’ve been designing a series of learning experiences for the Toddle Community and these have included sets of PSPE experiences for students around how best to deal with difficult emotions and feelings during the time of COVID-19.  With schools around the world closed, students have had to

Written by Maggie McGrane May 25, 2020August 7, 2020

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Designing engaging and rigorous learning experiences

Yesterday I led an online workshop for Toddle at the Inquiry Educators Summit (TIES).  It was amazing, even though there was a Zoom outage in the UK and eastern USA during the time of my presentation.  Thanks to the amazing support in India, I was still able to deliver my presentation R

Written by Maggie McGrane May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

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Lockdown: 5 Small Daily Goals

I’ve been at home for 7 weeks now.  For me this is a very unusual experience.  Last year, for example, I travelled overseas for 24 different jobs, doing workshops, consulting with schools and visiting schools to evaluate or authorise them for the IB.  Of course schools around th

Written by Maggie McGrane May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

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A free webinar

Living in the UK I’ve been in lockdown for the past 7 weeks – and while in some respects it has driven me crazy, it has also given me time to do many things that would not have been possible before.  One of these is a free webinar that is being organised as part of

Written by Maggie McGrane May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

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Books for Upper Primary

My third (and final) booklist has now been published – and it’s for upper primary students.  This is an age when many parents and teachers feel that students can read alone very competently, and so read-alouds often diminish – yet students of this age and older still love bein

Written by Maggie McGrane April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

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Books for Lower Primary

My second booklist has now been published!  This one is for supporting the Learner Profile attributes with lower primary students.  Of course, children of this age can read to themselves, but what better to promote a love of reading than having an adult model this by reading aloud to them!

Written by Maggie McGrane April 15, 2020April 15, 2020

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