Monday, March 9, 2015

Aligning Practice with Vision

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While our school has been in operation for 5 school terms we've been on the establishment journey for 10 terms. Over that period we s...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Leadership, Moral Purpose and Courage

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Sometimes, I must admit, I used to often feel like the Leunig dude in the boat above. It fitted the perception of leadership being a solit...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Let The Moment Seize Us

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While out trekking in the bush and in the rain this morning I was beginning to formulate what I was going to post this week. Thinking about ...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Infectious Dispositions and Powerful Partnerships

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When reading Charlie's latest post  I was reminded of something I used to say quite often at my last school to keep myself on track i...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Enabling Constraints

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Enabling constraints - this is a term that has been appearing in conversations I've been having over the last few months. When other...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Why Must We and How Might We?

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Even though my last post joined the call to stop talking about it and just get on with it we still keep getting reminders of why the sch...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

On The Cusp

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I am writing this post the night before we begin a 3 day induction of our 7 new staff with the week culminating with a full Teacher Day. I f...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Learning about Leading

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When I reflected on 2014 and try to ignore the big events (inducting new staff, welcoming our first student cohort, trialing our curriculum ...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

We've Finally Opened

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   I loved our official opening which was on Friday 7 November. What really struck me were the comments the three students who represented...
Monday, October 27, 2014

How might we ....Thinking about paddling in unison

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Thinking about paddling the waka, not only in the same direction, but also in unison! I'm about to get dangerously close to being...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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Most of my posts have been describing the things we as teachers and students have been doing as we make our way through our first yea...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Powerful Partnerships

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I am often asked what I think are the most important aspects of our curriculum and pedagogy model at HPSS. I'm sure I've given lots ...