Todays post is my second for week one of the #EdBlogNZ challenge. You can read my first post here about why I blog and what I blog about. Challenge three for this week was to write a post about how something like a favourite movie, song, or piece of art relates to who we are as an educator….
It’s All About The Blog! #EdBlogNZ
I thrive on challenges and I love to blog. Combining the two – now that’s just going to have to be magic! It’s ironic really – since the 3pm bell heralded the end of what can only be described as a ‘mare’ of a term, I think I have subconsciously checked out of of the…
Building Capital to Build Capacity
I belong to a PPLG (principal’s’ professional leadership group) and we have been reading ‘The Principal – Three keys to Maximizing Impact” by Michael Fullan. At our meeting last week, we focused on chapter three, The First Key – Leading Learning. It is a fairly substantial chapter, and it covers a wide range of things…
Metaphorical Leadership
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…
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…