Posted in Accountability, Corporate, Education Committee, Ideas on Jul 27th, 2008 No Comments »
My good friend John Connell’s blog is always worth a read and so it was this week when I came across his post about the Civil Grand Jury system in San Mateo, California.
The San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury is an independent investigative body created by the California State Constitution. Composed of nineteen citizens, the San Mateo [...]
Posted in Accountability, Blogging, Corporate, Education Committee, Elected Members, Integrated Children's Services, LAAC, Personal Lessons, Public Services on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
As Head of Education I had a very clear and unambiguous role, i.e. I was responsible for everything which came under the banner of education of children and young people from 3-18 years of age. In my new role as Acting Director of Education and Children’s Services I have a much wider remit which includes the oversight [...]
Posted in Education Committee, Elected Members, Personal Lessons, Public Services on Mar 27th, 2007 4 Comments »
East Lothian Council met this morning to consider a number of reports - one of which was ours on Dunbar Primary education provision.
The vote went 20-3 to reject our recommendation for two separate schools.
The decision reflects the democracy in which we live.
This has been a significant learning experience for me
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Education Committee, Elected Members, ICT on Dec 12th, 2006 3 Comments »
We held our Education Policy and Performance Review Panel (PPRP) meeting today in Preston Lodge HIgh School.
The panel consists of elected members who scrutinise the work of the Education and Children’s Services.
We met in the school to show elected members how ICT policy is translated into action in our schools.
We looked at two very different examples:
The first [...]
Posted in ASL, Blogging, Education Committee on Jan 24th, 2006 No Comments »
8.15-9.45 Correspondence and phone calls
10.00-12.00 Education Committee - excellent presentation from Sheila Ainslie on Staged Assessment and Intervention. She really demonstrated a mastery of her brief and was well received by the committee - impressive stuff.
12.30 Met with Valerie Irving to complete a draft letter which HTs can use to send out to parents to [...]
Posted in Education Committee, Elected Members, Extra-curricular, Finance, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2006 No Comments »
9.00 - 10.30 Education Committee agenda setting meeting. This is a meeting with John Ross and Maureen Talac (convener and vice-convener of the education committee) about the papers that are to be presented at the next education committtee. We finished the meeting with an update of the budget suituation. It is likely that we will [...]
Posted in Assessment, Education Committee, School visits on Nov 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
7.30-9.00 Preparation for Education Committee and correspondence.
9.00 - 9.30 Quick impromptu meeting with Kay Affleck who is our Integration Information Officer. Kay is going to take responsibility for a new section of the site -
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10.00-12.00 Council Committee for Education. These are formal meetings where the officers, namely Alan Blackie and myself present a [...]
Posted in Education Committee, ICT, Integrated Children's Services, School visits on Sep 6th, 2005 No Comments »
9.00am Pre-agenda meeting for Council Committee for Education was cancelled. This enabled me to complete the paper I had been working on since yesterday relating to communication between nursery/primary headteachers and directorate. I've chosen the term directorate because people in schools often refer to communication with the council. I know it's only semantics but such [...]
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