Archive for April, 2012
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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Friday, April 20th, 2012
This week I attended a meeting for members of the Australian Federation of Principals (APF) where we heard about the progress on a log of claims to form a new industrial workplace agreement for principals across Victoria.
Not wanting to labour many of the points raised at the meeting however one ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
In writing my last post on community I've come to reflect on a phrase I used on school tours "please shop around before considering this school".
I'm wondering whether I contributed to a consumerist way of looking at education or schooling. In saying "shopping" where you buy goods was I painting a similar image ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Late last year I was remiss in not sharing news about a project two teachers imagined - a school dragon to use when we celebrate Chinese festivals and events.
The Mandarin teacher, Bec had the original idea and then another teacher and some parents quickly jumped on board and with the help ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
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Last month my school community led by a dedicated group of parents came together to construct a school orchard.
This project has been in the planning phase for over 12 months as the committee rasied funds, involved some university students in the conceptual planing phase, gathered some parents who were ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Recently I, along with 2 colleagues, were nominated by our network of schools to meet with the Minister of Education to chat over a few concerns our colleagues wanted us to raise.
We raised a number of points that he had heard before and his genuine response was that we needed ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Last month we held our 3rd curriculum day on one of our strategic improvement strategies - the implementation of a relational learning framework in teaching and learning and to engage with the parent and wider community (school are entitled to hold 4 non pupil free days each year).
The day was facilitated by ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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Over the past few weeks there have 2 work occassions where I felt a need to "join in".
As a general rule I don't like dressing up in fancy dress. It's not that I feel I have a conservative image of a principal to uphold that stops me - its just ...
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