Our first module this semester is called Professional Reflections. We will have several teachers and guest lecturers. We just finished our first two weeks with Linda Mitchell from New Zealand and it’s been amazing. She not only looks like Natalia’s grandma, but is very inspiring and nice to listen to (because of her accent).

She has been telling us a lot about Centres of Innovations in New Zealand. The staff in these centres work with researchers from universities to investigate areas of their practice. I would love that job. I would love to be one of the educators inquiring into practice with my colleagues and a researcher, and I would also love to be the researcher who supports the team of teachers. Unfortunately, funding has been cut to these programs and I will not be sending resumes to New Zealand…