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Are your teachers ready to innovate?
The McKinsey Report on Education, ‘How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better’ sets out what school systems need to do to get from poor to fair to good to great to excellent. The...
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Unnecessary stuff
When I first arrived at Willow Park School in 2008 the folder on the left was the school scheme. Hours of work had obviously gone in to creating a substantial document that no one read. Unfortunately,...
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Tribal Meetings
Sir Ken Robinson says it is important in life to ‘find your tribe’. That is to find people who seem to speak the same language, think a similar way, get excited over the same things, have a similar...
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Good things will happen
It is a full-on time for school leaders in New Zealand at this end of the school year. It is easy to get ‘swamped by the stuff’. Added to the usual end of year events is the array of things to prepare...
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The Why, How and What of School Leadership in the 21st Century.
It’s been great to enjoy the long hot summer we’ve had and clear my head of the myriad of tasks that come with being a primary school principal in New Zealand. The week before coming back to school...
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The ‘Why’ of school leadership for the 21st century
Why should we change the way we lead schools in the 21st century? Our core role as educators is to prepare our children for their future. Traditionally in primary schools this has meant focussing on...
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The ‘How’ of school leadership for the 21st century
How should we change the way we lead schools in the 21st century? Having clarity about the difference between 20th century and 21st century education makes it easier to understand how we should be...
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The ‘What’ of school leadership for the 21st century
What should change in the way we lead schools in the 21st century? At Willow Park School, we see Emma Winder’s My-learning as 21st century pedagogy. What I have come to realise is there is a strong...
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The essence of school leadership for the 21st century
I was recently interviewed by Peter Nelson, Director of Education at TTS (Telco Technology Services) for their 2013 Roadshow – ‘The way forward. Enabling Modern Learning Environments’. In doing this,...
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The importance of being Asia Aware
School leaders in New Zealand ensure their students are familiar with and readily use technology as part of their learning at school. They know their students will need this knowledge and skills if...
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But wait there’s more…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video where I shared what I believe is the essence of school leadership for the 21st century. Since then I’ve edited videos of other key staff at Willow Park School...
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Recipe for success
I had the privilege this week of catching up with Eru and Freda. They had been our Kapa Haka tutors a couple of years ago and we have managed to entice them back to help us out again this year. Eru...
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We don’t know how lucky we are
Lately I have been reflecting on the Fred Dagg song – ‘We don’t know how lucky we are’ in relation to how we as school leaders in New Zealand view ourselves. All too easily we can get distracted by...
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Wake Up NZ!
Most New Zealanders will be aware of the effect our baby boomers have had on our society, economy (just think about property prices!) and culture as they have progressively aged. It’s been calculated...
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