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SUMMARY:Learning from Our Community: Stories and Strategies from the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:On 2 July 2026\, the Learning Community did something different. The first two workshops had a facilitator at the front. This one handed the floor to the teachers. Four members of the community shared stories from their own classrooms: what they tried\, what worked\, and what proved hard. It became\, by common agreement\, the strongest session the community had held. \nWhat we explored\nThe theme was theory meeting practice\, the ideas from the first two workshops tested against real classrooms in Senegal\, Uganda and beyond. \nAdama Djimera took his twelfth-grade class outside onto the new campus lawns to write poetry in groups. With only a loose brief\, be inspired by what is around you and write two quatrains – the students organised themselves\, chose their own note-takers\, debated topics\, and produced four poems they could scarcely believe were their own. His reflection: change the environment\, trust the students\, and thinking becomes visible in the disagreement itself. \nFerdinant from Uganda teaches in a school inside a refugee settlement\, in classes of eighty to a hundred\, with neighbouring schools running classes of three hundred. His answer to the impossible class size was Think\, Pair\, Share: a minute to think alone\, then a pair\, then a larger group. The shy child who will never speak to the whole room will speak to one partner\, and gain the confidence to go wider from there. Every learner takes part\, even when the teacher cannot reach each one. \nBetween the stories\, the community reflected together\, drawing out the threads of collaborative learning\, student ownership\, and the vulnerability a teacher shows when they say\, in front of the class\, “I don’t know\, and I learn from you too.” \nWatch the full session\nThe complete workshop\, with every contributor’s story and the discussion around it\, is on our YouTube channel. \n \nVoices from the room\n\n“I am not a policeman. I am a big brother\, an uncle for some\, a teacher. I never hesitate to say I don’t know\, because you are not the only one learning. I learn from you too.”\nAdama Djimera\, Senegal \n\n\n“The shy learner will speak to one partner when they will not speak to the room. That is where the confidence begins.”\nFerdinant\, Uganda \n\n\nNext in the series\nThe Power of Our Words: how what we say shapes what students believe they can do\nWednesday 3 September 2026 · free · live on Zoom\n16:30 WAT · 17:30 CAT · 18:30 EAT · 15:30 GMT · 10:30 EST \nTeacher language\, teacher feedback\, and the words that build a learner – or quietly take them apart. This is the only page in the series that points to a live event\, so it carries the registration call. \nRegister free → Click Here
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SUMMARY:The Power of Our Words: How what we say shapes what students believe they can do
DESCRIPTION:On 3rd September 2026\, teachers from Senegal\, Nigeria\, South Sudan\, Uganda\, Zimbabwe and beyond gathered for The Power of Our Words\, the fourth workshop of the TLI Learning Community and the largest so far. Many joined for the first time. Ric Campbell led the session\, drawing on Peter Johnston’s Choice Words. \nWhat we explored\nThe workshop was about teacher language: the words we use with students\, and how what we say shapes what a child comes to believe they can do. \nWe looked at the difference between praise and description. “Great job” tells a child little; noticing what they actually did (“you worked steadily at that problem for five minutes”) helps them see themselves as a learner. We explored how the questions we ask position students as thinkers in charge of their own learning\, and how the language of identity and agency (“what are you doing as a writer today?”) builds a young person’s sense of who they can become. \nThe heart of the session was a story a teacher shared: a shy girl who began an answer with “I think”\, whose teacher first stopped her\, then caught herself\, recognised the child was reasoning exactly as she had hoped\, and led the class in applause. As Ric noted\, the most powerful part was that the teacher reflected and changed what she said\, in front of her class. That teaches students something too. \nWatch the full session\n \nWhat we read\n\nJohnston\, P. (2024). Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning. Taylor & Francis.\nAnderson\, M. (2019). What We Say and How We Say It Matter. ASCD.\nDenton\, P. (2013). The Power of Our Words.
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