‘Why are you in such a bad mood?’ ‘Experience!’ Lord Berric to the Hound, in Game of Thrones. Todays post outlines some of my reflections on the TSR, and to be clear, they are wonderings that I have personally. I wear a number of hats in the educational world, which include sitting on a number of…
Author: Principally Mused
School Choice – You Are Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea
You are not everyone’s cup of tea – and this is ok! Today when I was scrolling my social media feeds, I came across a meme called ‘you’re not everyone’s cup of tea’ and I started to think about how this applied to school choice and that it is ok if your school is not everyone’s…
There is Trouble Brewing on the Horizon
Please note – this is a longer post than I anticipated so feel free to skim the bolded bits I began writing this as we drove through (stress not, I was a passenger) the leafy green suburbs of Vancouver.Vancouver you ask? Long story – I will fill you in another time as there is indeed…
Intuitive Assessment, Teacher Agency and Being a Disobedient Educator – Part 2
At the beginning of term three, my SLT (Senior Leadership Team) and I provided our teaching team with the opportunity to be a little ‘disobedient’ and to try something a little different and unconventional in relation to assessment. You can read the blog post that outlines the process and background as to why and how,…
Intuitive Assessment, Teacher Agency and Being a Disobedient Educator – Part 1
I have been thinking, wondering and considering various innovations around assessment. It has been sparked in part by a request that was made in a closed leadership environment on social media by another principal, and by the timely words in the latest hit book about education, which is currently going viral in New Zealand, Disobedient…
When Your Blog Goes On Sabbatical! (6 Reasons to do it)
I have been a little quiet of late. To clarify (before those of you who know me personally start piping up to argue the ‘quiet’ bit) I mean quiet on the blog writing front. I am not going to jump into a whole pile of excuses and blame it on being busy, because I am…
The Case of Professional Curiosity
Dear reader, let me begin with a small apology. I have just noticed that I have not actually published anything since what appears to be the middle of the last ice age! Ok, that might be the smallest of exaggerations, but I have had a bit of a sabbatical from publishing and now I realise…
Leadership Hack Playlist – 12 Songs to Blow off Steam
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Back in early November I wrote a blog post, The Fear in the Belly, 11 Leadership Hacks to Overcome It, more of a reminder to myself that I was quite capable of getting through the tough days that are Term Four. In that post, under leaderships hack number Four –…
Beware the ‘Creep Up’
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Let me begin with a clarification. By bewaring the ‘creep up’ I am not referring to your underpants or the weird fella down the street with the dodgy van. By ‘creep up’ I am referring to those things in life that sneak up on us, practically unexpected (I would like…
Sayonara 2016 – Don’t let the door hit you on the backside as you leave…
It is amazing how fast 2016 has zoomed by. It seems only months ago we were raising our glasses to toast it in – but here I am, a year later, on New Years Eve, taking a few moments to reflect on what I can only describe as a bit of a strange year. …