Sunday, July 19, 2015

Learning and Leadership Inquiries

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While our staff were formulating their teaching inquiries earlier this year I had a brief moment when I sat back and thought, "We...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Rhetoric and Reality

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I almost didn't go to the launch of David Hood's book, The Rhetoric and The Reality: New Zealand schools and schooling in the 21s...
Monday, May 18, 2015

It's Not Only The Kids Who Learn Here!

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Danger! Super Heroes at Work! I have grown to love the elegance of timetabling! Not timetabling as I once knew it when the concentrat...
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Life in the Pit Lane

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It's tough work moving through the establishment of a new school, especially when driven by the desire to lead the way in reshaping w...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Behaviour Management and Leading with Shared Responsibility

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I'm finding the above matrix to be very useful when thinking about a range of scenarios as we continue to establish our school. I use...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

How Might We Align NCEA With Our Vision

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This question has not necessarily vexed us for a couple of years during our establishment phase and during out initial implementation phas...
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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...