VP – Edventures

Building the infrastructure

Kristian Still 14 Nov ’13 14 Nov ’13

What has been my experience of a VP role? More importantly, where can I define my impact? Honestly, with the immediate introduction of a new MIS and new timetable, a heavy teaching load, a broad breath of leadership responsibility, I …

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Talking about teaching

Kristian Still 23 Oct ’12 23 Oct ’12

I meet with curriculum leaders at The Wellington Academy for the first official time this Wednesday and I am considering how that conversation will be formed, directed and developed. In my mind, it will be two parts listening, two parts …

I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …
No rescuing3 Nov ’24
Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves. This is a life, teaching, leading, parental sentiment or wisdom that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “no rescuing.” This is the focus on this post and thinking. …
Teams – Day 3 (part 2)2 Nov ’24
Prioritising time to write has not made it to the top of the priorities list until today (the end of half-term). That is a failing on my part. With hindsight, I should have planned and scheduled less. I am not comfortable accepting that “writing, thinking …
Yuimaru – ‘a circle of people’26 Oct ’24
It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …