Posted in CPD, Leadership, Personal Lessons, personal on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
I fly out tomorrow to Harvard University tomorrow afternoon.
Only one more sleep!!!
I’ll be updating my Learning Log for the duration of the course and also contributing to our team blog.
Posted in CPD, Edubuzz, Head Teachers, Leadership, Learning and teaching, Self-evaluation on May 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
A week since my last post. It’s just that time of year.
Appointment panels, report writing, presentation preparation, e-mails, Integrated Children’s Services Plan and meetings — lots of meetings.
We held our last Head Teachers’ conference of the year today and it proved to be well received - although I think we pushed it a bit in [...]
Posted in CPD, Culture, Head Teachers, Management, Strategic on May 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
It was just an innocent question but it triggered a fascinating and very productive discussion this morning.
The questioner had been Dee Torrance who had invited me to speak to the most recent cohort of SQH candidates at Peebles Hydro Hotel. As well enjoyed a cup of coffee after the session she popped the question:
“So what [...]
Posted in CPD, Exc-el blogs, Leadership, Learning Logs, Personal Lessons, Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
We had a get together today at the Cosla Edinburgh offices for all of us going to the Harvard Leadership School. We have agreed to keep a “team’ learning log of our experiences.
Eight weeks today we fly out to Boston - it’s going to be great fun and tremendous learning experience - I feel very [...]
Posted in Admin, CPD, Management on May 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
As readers of my log will be aware we are placing a huge focus upon developing leadership skills within East Lothian. However, we must not forget that sometimes people’s ability to lead effectively is seriously compromised by the challenge provided by the huge array of day-to-day managerial tasks.
To support school Head Teacher’s and Depute [...]
Posted in CPD, Ideas, Jobs, Leadership, Learning and teaching, recuitment on Apr 30th, 2007 4 Comments »
I met a teacher today who has been applying for Principal teacher jobs without success.
One of the problems is that many jobs ask for leadership experience - but how do you get that experience if you’re not in a leadership position?
Many people manage to gain such experience by being in the right-place-at-the-right-time - i.e. they are lucky enough [...]
Posted in CPD, Culture change, Personnel on Apr 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ll be e-mailing all teachers in East Lothian in the next couple of days to relaunch our Voluntary Teacher Exchange programme. We hope to open this out to other members of staff at a later date. I’d welcome any comments or queries regarding any of the following:
VOLUNTARY TEACHER EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
Background
The Voluntary Teacher Exchange Programme evolved from a [...]
Posted in CPD, Jobs, Personnel, recuitment on Apr 1st, 2007 7 Comments »
In a meeting this week we were exploring some of the essential criteria we might use for promoted posts such as Principal Teacher, Depute Head Teacher and Head Teacher.
For example -
Should anyone who wishes to become a Depute Head Teacher have been a Principal Teacher in more than one school?
Should a prospective Head Teacher have held promoted [...]
Posted in CPD, Exc-el blogs, Leadership, Learning Logs on Mar 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Using the wonderful wordpress platform which David Gilmour so ably manages on our behalf I’ve had a go at setting up a Learning Log for the team which will be going out to Harvard in July.
Hopefully we can populate the log with lots of useful information and give people an insight into the course and what [...]
Posted in CPD on Mar 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been invited to attend the Harvard University Summer School on evolving a leadership vision from the 12th - 20th July.
It is my intention to set up a separate learning log where the five Scottish participants can post their thoughts, experiences and links to a single point of reference.
I’m really looking forward to what, I reckon, [...]
Powered by FireStats