SOLO Taxonomy

What can SOLO Taxonomy offer gifted and talented students that other approaches cannot and do not?

March 1, 2015

“Gifted and talented education has too many bandwagons, too many good intentions, and too many students whose early promise fails to develop into adult eminence.”  Hook 2015 It has been a while since I have met with educators charged with meeting the special learning needs of students labelled as “gifted and talented”. I turned my […]

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SOLO Taxonomy: Thoughts on how to implement

February 8, 2015

“There should be one … and preferably only one obvious way to do it” versus “There is always more than one way to do it”. Over the past 12 years I have seen many different approaches to implementing SOLO as a common language of learning across a school. Much like teaching and learning the same […]

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HookED SOLO Taxonomy “When Less is More” Postcards

November 13, 2014

The HookED SOLO Taxonomy “When Less is More” Postcards have arrived by courier from Hummingbird Print. I tasked Volstagg the Vainglorious – the expert at doing less around here – with checking out the new cards – you can see which SOLO level captured his full attention. Created with flickr slideshow. The ever fabulous Nick […]

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Unboxing SOLO Taxonomy in Mathematics

November 4, 2014

As anyone who reads Artichoke will attest – unboxing PIG was exciting – and I am happy to report that he has quickly settled into life in the corridor and is keeping a steadfast and focused snout on my desk from his perch on top of Quoll (Tasmanian). Unboxing PIG proved a useful dry run […]

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Imagining the future in your school: Transport Agency curriculum resources

October 22, 2014

Asking how we identify the future – and how we bring the future into the present form a large part of current educational discourse – especially in those edu_conference keynote conversations and breakfast sessions. Jensen (Witnessing the Future pdf) cites Serres and Latour and suggests that “assemblage”, “design”, “finish” and “slickness of advertising” all play […]

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Take away the descriptors

October 20, 2014

We are reckless jargon users in education. Just ask anyone coming out of your local supermarket what they think “effective pedagogies” or “student agency” means. Jargon is used to: exclude; disguise; imply expertise; and to market product.  No one benefits when words are used to divide and confuse. Nine notable offenders have agreed to have […]

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SOLO Taxonomy @edchatNZ

August 10, 2014

New Zealand educators tweet about #SOLOTaxonomy.
@edchatNZ Conference August 2014

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HookED SOLO Literacy Stickers

August 3, 2014

This post acknowledges two ever fabulous teachers – Lynley Cummack and Rachel Saxton – and the work they do with primary and secondary students using classroom based approach to SOLO Taxonomy in New Zealand. When I worked with Lynley Cummack (Team Leader for Hurunui Team at Waimairi School) last month, she set me up for […]

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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 SOLO Map Postcards

July 31, 2014

“There has always been art in cartography. Maps by definition are utilitarian, of course; they bear implicit promises of routes into and out of the unknown. Yet the language of maps as developed over time is a beautiful one, filled with artistic potential.“ Katharine Harmon “The Map as Art” from Princeton Architectural Press I am […]

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On “being a mole” days

July 28, 2014

“Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror – indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows I am working from […]

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