Archive for the ‘Networks of Schools’ Category

Disputing Classrooms – a text on innovative use of technology to “personalise learning”

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

A month or so ago all principals in Victoria were given this book "Disrupting Classrooms" just prior to the release of a new innovation in schools called the ultranet. We have all been reading this book in our own ways I think supported a little more directly through networks of schools ...

School Regeneration Projects

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

School regeneration projects engage schools and their local communities developing a sustainable educational provision plan that covers educating young people from birth to adulthood. The school communities usually agree to reduce the number of sites and organise the provision of education so that some campuses have sites for Years P-8, others ...

Teachers Guide to Web 2.0

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

A Teacher's Guide To Web 2.0 at School View more documents from Sacha Chua. Following on from the social media theme I found this presentation which teachers might find interesting. It has a message for us all about using the web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning. Since my last post I have located a good ...

World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals – Singapore – a hit!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I have just returned from the 9th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals in Singapore. It was truly an international convention with1,400 delegates from over 40 countries. It was also an opportunity to meet up with old friends and colleagues like Sita, who I first met whilst studying ...

Breaking down silos to make sense of networks.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

As a principal of a school we all know about the benefits of breaking down the walls of classrooms or silos so that the teachers can learn from each other and question each other so that we build the collective professional understandings needed to improve learning outcomes for students. So what's the ...