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Thank You for Guiding the Inner Spark, Teachers
Thanking teachers for guiding the inner spark in every learner they engage!

Karen Walstra
Oct 61 min read
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Screen time & Children - Find a healthy balance
Create a balance of being on devices and exploring nature.

Karen Walstra
Feb 173 min read
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Education & AI: Relevant, Focused, Sustainable.
Education & AI - schools could use AI to be relevant, focused and sustainable

Karen Walstra
Feb 28 min read
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Leap Day, Leap Year - Teaching Ideas.
Are you discussing Leap Year with your learners? Thursday 29th February 2024 is Leap Day, an extra day in calendar.

Karen Walstra
Feb 28, 20243 min read
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Learning Spaces: Caves, Waterholes and Fireside, for your Learners
Learning Spaces: Caves, Waterholes and Fireside, for your Learners - how and where do your learners learn

Karen Walstra
Mar 7, 20231 min read
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School Environment and Technology
Create a learning environment, in your school garden often the first impression of visitors see. A resource we don’t use enough.

Karen Walstra
Jun 5, 20225 min read
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Examples Of Being Truly Responsible Citizens
Inspire learners to be responsible citizens. Thousands of people in communities are assisting with clean up after protests and looting.

Karen Walstra
Jul 17, 20215 min read
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Earth Day 2021 - Restore Our Earth
Earth Day 22 April get involved, as a family, school, community. Do projects to assist in sustaining our Earth

Karen Walstra
Apr 20, 20212 min read
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World Wetlands Day #RestoreWetlands
World Wetlands Day 2 February. Consider ways to create an awareness among your students.

Karen Walstra
Feb 2, 20212 min read
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Strategic Planning is Vital for Every School
Strategic Planning is vital in every school to plan for the future, to be sustainable and remain relevant.

Karen Walstra
Nov 23, 20203 min read
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Tips for “New Family Life" with COVID-19
"Lockdown" life with COVID-19 is very different, let's find the positive and thrive

Karen Walstra
Apr 1, 20203 min read
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Spaces to inspire learning - Learning Spaces
Create and design venues for learning and teaching differently. Create learning spaces to inspire learners.

Karen Walstra
Nov 10, 20192 min read
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TECHNOLOGY IN ALL AREAS OF SCHOOLING including in FET
TECHNOLOGY IN ALL AREAS OF SCHOOLING including in FET

Karen Walstra
Sep 24, 201910 min read
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Recreate and Evolve your Tech or D&T Classroom into a MakerSpace
Many schools have a Technology Workshop or Design and Technology Room, with a range of hand-tools and machine tools. This is often a...

Karen Walstra
Jul 24, 20173 min read
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Classroom Furniture & Arrangement for learning and e-learning spaces
Why change the classroom layout? Why change and rearrange the classroom furniture? Our classrooms are often so stayed and old fashioned,...

Karen Walstra
Mar 3, 201412 min read
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Colours for the Classroom
Colours for the Classroom, for example: using a variety of colours in a classroom reduces passivity and boredom.

Karen Walstra
Jan 7, 201412 min read
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Exercises for the brain, in the classroom - exploring neurobics
Neurobics encourages us to use, as many senses as possible to create strong and multiple associations, therefore when we remember the...

Karen Walstra
Jan 6, 20148 min read
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Girls and Boys Draw Differently
Have you watched the children on the playground or in the classroom? Girls and boys play differently. They fight differently. They...

Karen Walstra
Jun 12, 20133 min read
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Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments
Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments. Playing is an essential part of growing up

Karen Walstra
Feb 7, 20133 min read
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An Inviting Learning Space - The Classroom
Organizing and changing the classroom to suit what is being taught, in a fun and interesting manner, helps one feel comfortable and prepared

Karen Walstra
Feb 4, 20134 min read
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