Where and how is impact accrued
I admit it, one day I would like to lead a school. In preparation for that event I try and read / watch / learn about school leadership where I can. The ASCL website and Leader magazine is very good, …
Leadership
Outlining vision and leading strategy
Cheating the Impossible
The impossible—we are told—cannot be achieved. Thus a ‘fair confrontation’ is out of the question. To overcome the ‘impossible’ we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent—some would one say …
Leadership
Leadership is no longer about your position. It’s now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference. You can lead without a title. — Robin Sharma Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. …
Data for Progress and Achievement – death by traffic lighting
My role for next year is gradually become more defined. In a nutshell I will be in an educational marriage with performance data; SIMs, RaiseOnline, FFT and SISRA the new framework. It is a role anchored to hard data, hard policy and efficient data …
Mokita
Mokita – that which everyone knows and no one speaks of. The term “mokita” derives from The Papuans of New Guinea, a term used to refer to these unspoken issues. In fact it is more than just a common phrase in …
Online Booking for Parents and Carer Meetings
This term we road tested our online booking system for Parent and Carer Meetings and last night was our Year 10 Parents and Carers Evening. In addition to offering the online booking system we as also offered / encouraged departments to hold their …
Leadership Questioning
I have read a great deal of the practice of questioning as a teacher. Watched and learnt alot from Ted Wragg Teachers TV videos and Dylan Williams on The Classroom Experiment, trialled the pose, pause, pounce and now bounce method, the ‘magic pocket …
Data man
Learning is not a place, it’s an activity. – Andreas Schleicher. So, an interest TED post, let’s hope we can watch the talk. You can’t copy and paste education systems wholesale, but there are a range of shared factors,” Scheicher …