{"id":200,"date":"2010-01-29T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:52:12","slug":"collaborative-networking-starts-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Networking Starts Locally&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>posted by Robert Price<\/em><br><em> Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/em><br><em> January 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Collaborative Networking is a key element of Thinking Schools. Collaborative includes: cooperative learning; collegial coaching; community building; connections regionally and globally&#8230; Thoughtful exercises that build an understanding of one another, a collaborative spirit amongst the group and stimulate a collective support of one another is important. And why I believe such exercises should be a regular part of gatherings: for fun; for understanding; for growth; for students and educators and community people. The video clips (1-community building exercises; 2-reflections on community building exercises) below shares the use of community building exercises that are an important part of the professional development (so we learn deeper with one another) as well as for use in the classroom with students.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Who are community building exercises for?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ethiopia community exercises\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhhSWMlOXTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;Reflections by educators on doing community building exercises&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ethiopia community exercises\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhhSWMlOXTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>posted by Robert Price Addis Ababa, Ethiopia January 2010 Collaborative Networking is a key element of Thinking Schools. Collaborative includes: cooperative learning; collegial coaching; community building; connections regionally and globally&#8230; Thoughtful exercises that build an understanding of one another, a collaborative spirit amongst the group and stimulate a collective support of one another is important.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=200\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collaborative Networking Starts Locally&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-3e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=116","url_meta":{"origin":200,"position":0},"title":"Start Your Lesson with Community","author":"admin","date":"March 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"posted by Bereket Aweke \u201cCommunity Building not only makes students physically refreshbut also set their mind for learning\u201dMr.Habtamu \u2013 Science Teacher at CHA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Grade 5 students at Children\u2019s Home Academy always start their Science lesson with community buildings. 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