Imagine if you will, that you are sitting at your desk, busily beavering away at the three quadtrillion (yes that is a word) things on your ‘to do’ list. Outwardly, you are looking calm and on top of all your tasks, even if your heart is doing that flip-jack, twitchy thing that suggests that inwardly,…
Category: education
BMWs and Fur Coats
Recently I had the privilege to visit another school with my Digital Improvement Team leader. It gave us the opportunity to converse with other like minded educationalists, poke around in a few of their classrooms, and most importantly, see education through the lens of someone other than ourselves. It is not often we get an…
12 Solution Focused Coaching Takeaways
At the end of last week I attended a Solutions Focus Master Coaching class. It was two days of jam packed coaching goodness, where we were taken through the process of how to incorporate the Solutions Focus approach into our coaching. It was enlightening and it gave me additional skills that I can use as…
Self Review and Change
This morning I was participating in a Twitter chat on Change at #asiaED. The question that inspired this blog post was “How do you stay focussed and take care of you when working on change projects?”. My answer to that was that I have found self review is a good driver of change because it…
School Principal’s Day – I know
This is my first #edsketch2015 for May – seemed fitting at the timeno awards for drawing heading my way anytime soon! Today, May 1st, is School Principal’s day. I have been doing this job for over a decade, and if it wasn’t for the presenter…
When Your Strengths Blindside You
I have had an epiphany. Not a world changing, best thing since sliced bread kind of sudden enlightenment, but one that might help with my own leadership.One of the books I am reading is The Principal: Three Keys to Maximising Impact by Michael Fullan. It is a follow up from his book Whats Worth Fighting…
Strengths Vs Weaknesses
In a previous post, I wrote about how sometimes your strengths as a leader can blindside you and become your weakness. You can read about that here. As a leader, it is always a good thing to know more about ourselves so that we can continue to improve and do the best we can. After…
Modern Learning Environment or Mindset?
MLE or MLM?To clarify MLE meaning Modern Learning Environment and MLM meaning Modern Learning Mindset (self derived title, I confess). As a teacher I coveted the new and shiny. I loved fancy new furniture, concepts and cute gadgets and due to budget constraints I ‘made do’ with my own versions of the new fangled. It…
Find the Space and Recharge
I have been taking a bit of a break for the last week. The first term of the year has been exceptionally busy and very full on, complete with an ERO review (successful, more on that in another post) in the last week of term. I figured the first week of the Easter Holiday break…
Racketeering, Really?
Racketeering.An interesting word that conjures up all kinds of images in my head. Images of machine guns, crime lords leading violent crime syndicates, fast and expensive cars, murder, mayhem and all manner of dubious dark deadly deeds! I picture scenes out of The Sopranos, where Tony Soprano is issuing hits on those who challenge…