Has AMOS been a visitor at your school? When AMOS appears, do you instantly worry about where it will take you, or do you find ways to embrace AMOS? AMOS is the acronym for what it is most commonly known as ‘ At my old school’. New teachers in schools are often aware that AMOS can strike at…
Category: leadership
Are you steering the next Titanic?
Are you steering the next Titanic? Two things have occurred this week that have made me think about how some schools in the global education system have an awful lot in common with aspects of the Titanic. Firstly, an act of deliberate leadership growth and development. Earlier this week, as part of our Middle Leadership…
Professional Interdisciplinary Connections
A snapshot of the busy life of a school leader!Via Coggle As I was putting together the Coggle brainstorm of my interdisciplinary connections above, I confess I stopped ‘mind dumping’ once the page started to get super busy, figuring the reader would ‘get the picture’. It is quite tiring to look at that dump of…
The Influence of Law and Ethics – A Cautionary Tale
Tweet, like, comment, share, follow, unfollow, hang out, Skype, snap, chat, trend, connect, upload, download, instagram, pin, activate, login, create, consume, poke, hashtag, emoji, share, post, notify, message and code. The above is just a small list of ways to interact with social media, which,…
A Col, Staffing and the Auckland Housing Market
Contemporary issues impacting on my practice: There are two contemporary issues in education that are currently having an impact on my practice. 1. Communities of Learning This issue is at the forefront of my current practice. It would be fair to say that I have had concerns about this policy from the offset, however, I…
Professional Communities and School Culture
School culture is a little like the proverbial iceberg (Stoll, 1998) – what you see on the surface is not necessarily representative of the whole story. Often what lies beneath is a complicated network of emotions, traditions, rituals, values and relationships that can be as tricky to navigate as the London underground system! It is…
ILE, the Curriculum and a Couple of Wonderings
Scrolling through the Mindlab Google+ community, I noted a post about ILE (Innovative Learning Environments) and an opinion piece in the PPTA (Post Primary Teachers Association) April News. ILE is quite the educational buzz statement right now. Leaders I meet are either in the “I have one” group, or “I want one” group, or the…
The Dream School – Perhaps you are already there?
This post is in response to the #EdBlogNZ March challenge of writing about your dream school. I have been thinking about this and reflecting on the challenge all month. Initially my mind went wild – and I conjured up all kinds of wonderfulness. It was interesting really, because as much as I can dream big…
What is in a Passion? #EdblogNZ
This is the EXTRA leap year challenge – to create a audio or video (I did both – sort of) post on something you are passionate about and add the transcript. Enjoy. …
Year End Reflections for New Year Beginnings
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ lang syne! For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne, We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet For auld lang syne! And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie’s a hand o’ thine, And…