Principal Possum

This blog is about my thoughts on schools and learning and how we might lead in those spaces. After 20 years of principalship at Opotiki College and Hobsonville Point Secondary School (Foundation Principal) I now operate a consultancy, HMWLead, to support school leaders. I spend my spare time running ultramarathons, listening to vinyl records and keeping an eye on what my family is up to. They all surprise me.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

How Might We Lead: Trying To Form New Habits

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  You might not connect with the following metaphor but it works for me. I've been running 'competitively' for 50+ years. I don...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

How Might We Lead: What Might Be Possible

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  2 posts ago I wrote about the importance of making sure your big hairy goals are put out there for others to see. I think this gives some...
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Monday, September 18, 2023

Working with How Might We Lead (HMWLead)

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The HMWLead Website is now live. I invite you to go and check it out and give me any feedback. The 'What We Offer' Page on the webs...
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Monday, September 4, 2023

How Might We Lead - Why, Why, Why

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 "Why, why, why?!" is a common response from my friend and inspirational guru on all things to do with positive relationships and ...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

How Might We Lead

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 At the beginning of July this year I finished up as Principal of Hobsonville Point Secondary School after being the Foundation Principal fo...
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Monday, October 3, 2022

Dispositional Curriculum: Supporting Young People to Cope/Thrive in a Disrupted World.

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 When myself and my 3 DPs first met up to begin work at the start of 2013 we were presented with the following vision from the Establishment...
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Connected Learning Supporting Specialist Knowledge

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  Connected Learning Promoting Specialist Knowledge David Hood, in his book  The Rhetoric and The Reality,  which I touched on in a  previou...
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Thursday, October 14, 2021

Time to Calm The Farm - Schools are not in chaos

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These are challenging times as we deal with a very tricky global pandemic and school leaders are being called upon to lead when the conditio...
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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Plan For Opening School for Term 4

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 Like a lot of people, I imagine, I've done some grieving about our Covid situation. However, since the movement from 4 to 3 and the fur...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Time to Question Calendar Year Qualifications - relieve stress and workload and deepen learning

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Last year I published a post entitled How to Manage NCEA in a Covid Affected 2020 . At that time (April 2020) there was a lot of uncertainty...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Old Thinking vs New Thinking: NCEA Frustrations and MIssed Opportunities and the Power of Language - a brief gripe

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We've missed a huge opportunity with the opportunity to review NCEA. Many of the changes have cemented old thinking and old ways of stru...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Wellbeing is Learning!

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More and more in my leadership growth journey I have come to realise the importance of wellbeing in learning.  It began with delving into th...
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