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We have recently decided to review the ‘various’ Acceptable Use Policies that have grown in our authority in the last few years as technology and the Internet have developed. We have tried to streamline the paperwork as much as possible, to make it accessible and relevant whilst still stiking that balance to ensure [...]

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I attended a drop in meeting today at the Musselburgh cluster with Prmary 1 teachers to look at how Active Learning is developing within their classrooms. Primary 1 teachers received a half day training in the principles of Active Learning in June and have been experimenting with implementation this session. Claire Lavelle, [...]

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Today we had a joint Local Authority presentation and discussion about Curriculum for Excellence. It was a chance for us to hear the latest developments from those close to the initiative and to find out how our colleagues in other LEAs are moving forward. There were some clear messages regarding the science [...]

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I have a new role as a Quality Improvement Officer this session working with a cluster of schools in East Lothian to support the self-evaluation and improvement agenda. I still have ICT as part of my remit, but I am looking forward to working closely with schools to support Learning and Teaching with a [...]

Apologies for a late post. On Thursday I went to visit Derek Robertson and the Consolarium at Learning and Teaching Scotland in Dundee. For those who have not been yet, the grounds are beautiful and it was a sunny early summer day, so the drive up was also scenic. The building, however, [...]

Photo courtesy of Amber Louise.
I led the Digital Video TeachMeet Roadshow at Law Primary on Friday. Just as we have our Guineapig Mum in East Lothian, Law is our Guineapig school! They were the first to experience and provide feedback for our TeachMeet format in November when we delivered our Digial Images Roadshow. [...]

An invite at the Teaching and Learning group yesterday led me to St Gabriel’s primary in Prestonpans today to hear the feedback from an Active Learning pilot that has been taking place in some of our schools. The pilot has involved bringing learning through play, currently evident in nursery education, to primary 1. [...]

I attended the Learning and Teaching group meeting today. The group consists of representatives from various stakeholders across the authority from head teachers, to class teachers, school librarians to education staff. Much of the meeting was spent discussing issues around A Curriculum for Excellence and how we start to develop a curriculum through co-creation (as [...]

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What a really productive day today. We had our first full day Glow mentor meeting of 2007. This meant a very early start for me to set up and a fairly frantic journey for many of the mentors through the particularly awful Edinburgh traffic. We had a fairly heavy agenda as [...]

I was fortunate enough to begin my series of coaching sessions today.  The aim of the 6 sessions is to have a coach support you through changes or improvements that you identify.  These could be work related or personal or an attempt to get your work/life balance right.  Ultimately, it is not about giving advice [...]