Posted in Children's Services, Inclusion, Integrated Children's Services on Nov 13th, 2006 No Comments »
I was invited to address the members of East Lothian Children’s Panel this evening. We spoke for 90 minutes about how we approach attendance, exclusions and inclusion in our schools.
A key theme which emerged in the course of the evening is the perception that there are still issues to do with consistency between how our schools approach each [...]
Posted in Children's Services, Inclusion, Integrated Children's Services, Partnerships, Planning, Positivity on Nov 7th, 2006 No Comments »
We’ve been working on a paper which explores the next steps we need to take to fulfil our obligations set out in For Scotland’s Children 2001.
The first part of that exploration is an appreciative inquiry perspective on the Integration Team.
I found it really helpful to adopt this type of thinking as opposed to focussing on [...]
Posted in Accountability, Children's Services, Culture change, Integrated Children's Services, Positivity on Jul 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been working on the Multiple Metaphor Model of change for a few weeks and was indebted to Rob Lewis who suggested some key questions which could compliment the metaphors.
Around the same time that I received Rob’s questions I came across the notion of Appreciative Inquiry. In order to try out the model I used [...]
Posted in Children's Services, Integrated Children's Services, Unions on Nov 18th, 2005 No Comments »
8.30-9.50am Directorate Meeting. We had missed Monday’s slot due to my attendance at the ICT Summit. Our meeting scheduled for this coming Monday will be focussing upon the four proposed structures for the department - of which more later.
10.00am Department Briefing
10.10 Senior students from Knox Academy, who included my neice BJ raided the department dressed [...]
Posted in Children's Services, Culture, Head Teachers, Integrated Children's Services, Planning on Sep 14th, 2005 No Comments »
Full day meeting for Primary and Nursery Headteachers. As I’ve set out elsewhere in this weblog it is my intention to establish a culture amongst East Lothian schools which is characterised by a shared purpose, belonging, openess and mutual trust. This is the culture I’ve always set out to create whenever I've had the opportunity [...]
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