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Where’s the leadership?
The long awaited report from the parliamentary inquiry into 21st Century Learning environments has just been released and makes for some good reading IMHO. I had the opportunity to contribute to four...
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Fresh thinking…
Today is my first day back at work after a three week break with family, enjoying the sun, the surf and the opportunity to relax in an environment without internet connectivity But the lack of...
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Magic Makers Trailer 2014 from Melissa Jun Rowley on Vimeo. Looking for inspiration as you start the new year back at school? Here's a heads-up on a new US TV series called MAGIC MAKERS: highlighting...
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Shifting to the digital age?
This story titled Teacher Colleges Seek to Shift to Digital Age appeared in my inbox this morning, and I felt myself sighing as I read it. The story is about Clemson University in South Carolina,...
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Teachers and school leaders are being challenged to transform educational outcomes, often under difficult conditions. They are being asked to equip students with the competencies they need to become...
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Overcoming adversity
Many of the children in the city today cannot remember a world before the earthquakes. The presenters in this TVNZ documentary ask how this has affected their wellbeing by visiting South New Brighton...
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The purpose of education
I presented a talk on leading change in a networked world to the School Leaders Network in Christchurch yesterday afternoon, focusing on the importance of understanding the emerging paradigm of the...
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Defining success
I was working with the staff of a local secondary school yesterday, and in the context of our discussion we shared our thinking around the question of 'what is success?' in relation to the purpose of...
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Networked Leadership
This week's announcement of funding to support the establishment of a new Centre for Educational Leadership in NZ heralds a significant change for the way we think about the leadership of our schools...
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agency vs entitlement
Earlier this year I was on a flight from Auckland to Canada which had to make an unscheduled stopover in Hawaii to offload a passenger who had become seriously ill. I was very impressed by the way the...
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