As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post I intend to make three school visits each week in the coming session.
The focus of my visits are: leadership; self-evaluation and learning tasks.
At our Quality Improvement Group meeting this afternoon I was asked what I was looking for in relation to the last of these points of focus.
So here [...]
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I received the feedback from the SQH seminar today.
For all that the feedback was overwhelmingly positive I couldn’t help but focus on the comment which said “The presenter had some interesting things to say but personality got in the way”
Thought so………
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So the PT Conference is over. How did it go?
The feedback from the 76 participants has been incredibly positive - both the formal evaluations and the verbal comments - but did it meet our objectives?
There were three key objectives of the conference:
promote the concept of Principal Teachers as leaders of learning;
create, promote and extend a community of [...]
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We hold our Principal Teacher Conference this weekend - the theme is “Principal Teachers: Leaders of Learning”
The Saturday is going to focus upon two key ares in relation to A Curriculum for Excellence, these being “personalisation” of the curriculum and “co-creation” of the curriculum.
We intend to split the delegates into two groups who will consider use [...]
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Diplomatic - skilled at dealing with sensitive matters or people
I spoke to two head teachers today about how they deal with potentially difficult situations with parents. It was interesting that they both almost used exactly the same words: “If you feel you need to “win” you’ve actually lost” Their point was that we need to [...]
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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 [...]
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Carole Craig has written extensively on Scottish people’s ability to undermine ourselves and the fact that we believe that we shouldn’t “blow our own trumpets”.
I was reminded of this today when I was speaking to one of our head teachers. I suggested that she was always seeking to push the reasons for any success in [...]
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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 [...]
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