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.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Here I go again - NCEA Level 1!

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For the first time in twenty years I didn't spend the summer break with some concerns about the upcoming school year nagging away at me ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Testing What Might Be Possible: Setting For the Tarawera Ultra Marathon 100 Miler

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Back on 17 April 2023 I signed up for the Tarawera 100 miler and downloaded a training plan from the online coaching platform that had got m...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Achieving Wellbeing Through Connection: Refresh, Reconnect, Refocus

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  Refresh, Reconnect, Refocus Apart from reading/listening to Brene Brown et al (who hasn't?) I haven't done much in the way of rese...
Monday, January 8, 2024

How might we overcome hurdles on the way

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Happy New Year to you all. If you've read some of my recent posts you may recall how I've used my big, hairy goal of running 100 mil...
Monday, December 18, 2023

From Principal Possum to How Might We Lead 2023: A summary and look forward

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  2023 was a year of uncertainty for me. But sitting here right now 2024 is one of excitement. The thing I'm most excited about is to wo...
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Sunday, December 10, 2023

How Might We Lead and FutureMakers: Sustainable support of principal wellbeing

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 I love the How Might We Lead title of my little venture that is designed to support school leaders and their teams to look at how they mig...
Monday, November 13, 2023

How Might We Lead? Designing our new narrative

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In my previous post I focused on the view that t he number one principle seems to be that effective schools have clearly articulated and sh...
Monday, November 6, 2023

How Might We Lead With a Set of Common Beliefs (about learning!)

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  While exploring the Education Leadership group on Linkedin I came across this:  " A competent curriculum leader is able to clearly ar...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

How Might We Lead for Effectiveness Rather Than Efficiency?

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I have been delving more deeply into the work of    Modern Learners ,  Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (OECD) ,  Michael Full...
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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