Posted in Arts, Strategic on Jun 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
We held our second meeting of our Arts and Education Advisory Group.
This large group will attempt to develop and drive our strategy for integrating the arts and education into a seamless whole which promotes engagement, quality of performance and links with the community from the age of 3-18.
Our intention is to allow our strategy to [...]
Posted in Corporate, Culture, Culture change, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Management, Power/influence, Public Services, Strategic on Jun 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
How would you like to work in a place which set itself out as ”A Space to Grow”?
A place where you could:
Achieve your personal goals;
Provide an outstanding service;
Fulfil your sense of vocation.
A place where your employers:
cared for your personal welfare and well-being;
focussed upon the impact of their service to users;
were flexible and willing to take decisions based upon [...]
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 Community Learning, Culture change, Curriculum for Excellence, Extra-curricular, Ideas, Partnerships, Planning, Strategic on Apr 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
We held our first meeting of the Creative Arts and Education Group.
As has become a pattern for first meetings it was more of a conversation about what people thought should be the purpose of the group.
The essential focus of the group is to enable us to give some shape and consistency to the wide variety [...]
Posted in Culture change, Ideas, Leadership, Learning and teaching, Partnerships, Planning, Strategic on Apr 24th, 2007 7 Comments »
We held our 3-18 Strategic Learning and Teaching Group this afternoon. The key strategic item was how we translate our Learning and Teaching policy into consistent practice in our schools.
The “traditional” management approach to such a conundrum would be to issue an instruction that it should be implemented by all teachers - as Captain Picard [...]
Posted in Culture, Culture change, Curriculum for Excellence, Leadership, Self-evaluation, Strategic, Using data on Apr 11th, 2007 6 Comments »
We had been out at the weekend and I met two teachers who work in different local authorities - neither of which are East Lothian.
One teacher talked about their authority’s Curriculum for Excellence co-ordinator and the other referred to a School Review which she was going back to after the holidays. It made me think about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, ICT, Learning Logs, Strategic on Mar 19th, 2007 13 Comments »
EXC-EL.ORG.UK
We had very useful Exc-el Open meeting this evening.
Look out for our forthcoming skype (or equivalent) conference - Ollie Bray will be setting this up - participants are welcome.
For me one of our most significant decisions was to move from Exc-el.org.uk to edubuzz.org during the Easter break.
I was personally fond of Exc-el as it’s been with us [...]
Posted in Culture change, Curriculum for Excellence, Public Services, Strategic on Mar 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
John Connell provides a tremendous window on education in the developing world through his new job as Cisco’s Education Business Development Manager for the Emerging Markets - covering South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia.
His most recent post about education in a global environment- which I read in an internet cafe in Paris [...]
Posted in Communication, Culture, Partnerships, Strategic on Mar 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
For those of you not familiar with the Scottish Borders dialect this is a little gem.
If you are ever out shopping and you see something that you would like to buy for yourself - then you would say it’s ”Frae masel, tae masel” or “From myself , to myself” - Gill, my wife, uses it [...]
Posted in ICT, Strategic on Feb 16th, 2007 8 Comments »
Our Strategic ICT and Education Group met yesterday.
This is our key planning group which oversees our £1 million revenue budget and £1 million capital ICT budget. The group is composed of head teachers, members of our education ICT team, the corporate ICT team plus a rep’ from the Finance Department.
It’s our job to try to translate [...]
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