Last week I was fortunate to hear BrendanSpillane for the second time, only on this occasion I was able to be in a workshop with him for the entire day, and I was able to bring other members of my SLT (Senior Leadership Team) with me. Last time, he was a keynote at the NZPF…
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The Loss of Potential
It is interesting the things that make us unite as a people. Take Cecil the Lion. People around the world are angry and upset. I’m not going to rehash that here, I’ll leave that to others. I will however say this. By all…
Fostering Innovation
There are a few things in Education that spin my wheels. The thing that spins them the fastest is innovation. Today I was asked if I was going to blog about the Innovations Team we set up at our place earlier this year, and given I was asked by someone who is pretty innovative…
Investing in People – Why It Matters
I was scrolling through my twitter feed last term when the tweet above caught my eye. In all honesty, Jason’s tweets often catch my eye, but this one was particularly salient in that it absolutely resonates with me, both philosophically and situationally. Let me explain. Philosophically I am a very strong believer in growing and…
Solution Focused Coaching Tools – A Visual Guide
“If you want to go fast, go slow” Insoo Kim Berg Back in May I spent two days participating in a two day Master Class for Solutions Focused Coaching. At the time I posted on the 12 Takeaways from that training, and I had meant to come back to the Solutions Focused process, and in…
Hit Squads in Education – The Reality of Dangerous Ideology
“Have faith in yourselves, your wonderful professional selves and don’t be budged from it!” Professor Meg Maguire July 2015 Last week Meg Maguire, a well known educationist and Professor of Sociology of Education at Kings College in London, shared the UK educational story. During her presentation she made it very clear that the UK had…
Dangerous Ideology – The Neoliberalization of Education
Last week I attended the NZPF (New Zealand Principals Federation) conference in Wellington, where the theme was “Every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing…Looking at Education through a variety of lenses”. In my previous post where I had published my Twitter Storify from conference, I made mention that two speakers in…
NZPF Conference – The Storify Summary – Proceed with Caution
The beautiful Wellington Sunrise Last week was the NZPF Conference down in beautiful Wellington. As always, it was a good opportunity to spend time with other leaders at the end of a very busy term, and a chance to think about all things educational – both locally and internationally. Todays blog is simply…
The ‘F’ Word – Part Two
I recently blogged about ‘Why Schools Need to Employ the ‘F’ Word More’ and by ‘F’ word, I was referring to FUN. In my last post I discussed the importance of authentic learning opportunities and engaging students in the learning process. At the end of that post I made mention that we had a SNOW DAY. Today was…
Why Schools Need To Employ the ‘F’ Word More
I use my favourite ‘F’ word at work all the time. So much so, that I am sure that my staff get tired of hearing me banging on about it. In fact, it is almost a running joke around our place. Only, it is not a joke – I am quite serious.This ‘F’ word you…