What a month! I had to complete 5 assessments for my Masters. This was achieved Friday! It has been a super intense 10 weeks. (I did sneak out to watch Wild Robot!, more on that another time).

I connected with 10 people for a study on Innovation in Education, and was so intrigued by their stories. I used Quirkos for the first time to do analysis of qualitative word data.

Another life long dream project is progressing well. I have found potential collaborators and backers who seem to be on the same wave length. I can’t say too much more yet. It definitely feels like this project is going to reach its goals! It has been a life long quest.

I have lovely compassionate online learning advisors. They helped me keep motivated to get those final assessments in. We had a few interesting discussion board dialogues. I also had one of my best ever online collegial assignment teams. Thanks so much to Travis and Amethyst. You are going to be awesome teachers.

It was wonderful studying leadership. Some of the cool tools I learnt about were Johari windows, the Skill Wills Matrix and the leadership tools and videos in AITSL.

This quarter I found out about super principals in Australia and globally, and how good leaders can be made and need not just be born.

It has been such a fulfilling time, where my passion for education, and access to education for all, has become my heart. I especially love the role that the arts, storytelling, music and dance can play in that.

In the midst of studies I was able to take a little bit of time off to attend a PNG independence day event. Next year is the 50th! Mum is heading up here for that one. I saw and spoke with some dancers from West Mekeo. They were kindly posing for photographs with everyone who came and asked for them.