Don Ledingham’s Learning Log

We had our first Exc-el Board Meeting this afternoon.
Members of the group are: myself, Karen Robertson, David Gilmour and Elizabeth Cowan (ICT team); Ronnie Summers HT Musselburgh Grammar School; Lynn Lewis, class teacher, Pencaitland Primary; Ollie Bray, Depute HT, Musselburgh Grammar; Ewan MacIntosh, ICT team and LTS; Ann Johnston, Librarian, Dunbar Grammar; Dave Wharton, HT West [...]

I was captivated by the recent BBC series which tracked some our North Sea fishing fleet who fish out of Peterhead. Not least because the Doric was the dialect of my father and his family.
Since then I’ve been keeping up with Captain Jimmy Buchan’s blog. As an outsider I now have some understanding of the [...]

One of the key statements which has guided Exc-el is the notion that top-down dependent change rarely has the desired impact. One of Ewan’s recent posts about bottom-up training demonstrates how we are developing an alternative perspective to the change management process.
A number of things came together this week which might complement that approach.
Firstly, in [...]