Welcome
This Learning Log records the experiences and reflections of six Scottish educational leaders who were funded by the Scottish Executive to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education in July 2007.
The programme was entitled “Leadership: an Evolving Vision”
Visitors to this log can navigate in a number of ways:
1. Use the search facility to find specific areas of interest.
2. Use the categories facility which will find all posts linked to that category; or
3. Follow the progress of the course through the following posts:
- Purpose of Public Schooling - an alternative 3 Rs – rigour, relationships and relevance
- The Burden of Presumed Competence - one of the biggest challenges facing school leaders is the burden of presumed competence
- The Harvard Way - building norms of behaviour to create a learning environment
- Project Adventure - how personal and group challanges can support the leadership process
- Great Boss? - Great Leader? - are they the same thing?
- Challenging Assumptions - looking beyond a disability
- Offering Support Or Building Dependency - listening and acting
- Inclusion as Belonging - for all! - seeing inclusion in an alternative light
- Work Less: Play More - this says it all
- “Unaccepted Attack of Help” - trusting experience over expertise
- School Leadership skills - are they transferable? - well are they?
- What have I learned so far at Harvard? - an interim reflection
- Listening is the ultimate learning skill - a reflective mind is a learning mind
- Reflexive and Reflective Thinkers - moving into a stretch zone
- Internationality - on global professionalism
- Being first out of the car park - you’re paid to talk - not to do!
- Social return on investment - are they getting value for money?
- Hurt people hurt people - and they do
- A Profession without a Practice - an indictment
- Instructional Practice or Teaching? - taking control of our technical expertise
- Professionalisation of Teaching - challenging autonomy
- Mind, Brain and Education - latest research and implications for teaching
- The Conditions Under Which We Best Learn - getting it right
- Developing Writing and Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum
- Making Connections 1 - drawing together some strands
- Making Connections 2 - identifying some themes
Browse the blog posts here.