Archive for the ‘school structures’ Category
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Thanks to Greg Carroll, a principal in NZ, I found this clip on dysfunctional teams which seems to make some sense. We often hear about how to build teams and make productive meetings well this clips comes from the other perspective. The key word TRUST and leaders being prepared to ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
A few weeks ago we were asked to present our work on changing a school culture whilst engaging with the 'Data Wise' inquiry process at Harvard. It's an honour to be invited for it acknowledges our work and commitment to our school community. We fly out next week and I'll ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Last week our school leadership team spent the day with Professor John Hattie from Auckland University and his team from the the Visible learning Lab. John has published his research in a book title Visible Learning and presents at lots of conferences and to various governments on what works to ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
This is the third recent post on the direction of education in schools.
In the first post I used the work of Sir Ken Robinson who gave us an outline of the history of public education and some of the challenges we now face. I also used the work of Chris Betcher, a ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
This book takes a serious historical and international look at the "digital pencil" movement to equip every student with a computing device with wireless connection. Using an ecological perspective as an overarching framework, and drawing on their own studies and available literature that illuminate the issues related to one-to-one computing, ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
After listening to Sir Ken Robinson talk about the history of education and challenge why we do things and then listen to Chris Betcher continue the challenge with a DaVinci in the classrooms - I poist so what do we need to do?
To help answer this question its useful to ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Sometimes you just stumble upon a great resource that helps you to challenge your own thinking. Well here is one by a well known writer, thinker and talker... Sir Ken Robinson.
This clip is one to use and challenge others thoughts - perhaps staff about why we do things. It's also a great clip ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
I've been feeling a mixture of guilt, fatigue and overload over the past month as I grapple with work commitments and university study so the blog has gone somewhat quiet of late.
But I couldn't help notice this article by Professor John Hattie published in the Age Newspaper.
A FEW days ago, not ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Yong Zhao a University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education at Michigan State University and international consultant to many governments talks here about the dangers of the narrow use of national test scores to define what students need.
I heard him speak recently at our Statewide forum on the use ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I have just finished hearing a report on the state of teacher performance reviews in Australia completed by the Grattan Institute.
Its a fairly controversial report as reported in the
education review,
ABC in South Australia,
Australia 'fails in teacher evaluation' in the Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 'fails in teacher evaluation' on Channel 7 ...
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