Are we confusing collaboration with sharing and conversation?

What does collaboration mean to you? This is a question that I have spent a few weeks contemplating. The reason for this started with a statement that a colleague made several weeks ago and has continued with reading some very interesting blog postings on similar topics. The statement started this though was by far the [...]

Program Provider: yLead, Leadership workshops

  I have used yLead many times to organise and run different pastoral care and pastoral education workshops. These have ranged from Student Leadership Development Days to sessions exploring school and school section transition. I have always found the team to be willing to develop fully customised workshops and easy to work with on ideas [...]

The Principal Story – A PBS Doco.

I found the clips linked to this site very interesting to watch and reflect upon.  As quoted from the site: ‘The Clip Reel, including 22 minutes of film clips selected from THE PRINCIPAL STORY, aims to assist practitioners and their trainers and mentors in reflecting upon and improving leadership practice. The Clip Reel organizes scenes [...]

Reflection #1 – Efficiency and Effectiveness

This morning as I was drinking my morning coffee and watching the day wake up I thought I’d start a series of relection posts.  This post is obviously the first or an as-yet undetermined number of thoughts that will range from pedagogy, to practice, to leadership and management and anything else in between.  This first [...]

Video interview on Twitter as an educational and PLN tool

Here is a short interview with an educator about using Twitter as a tool to assist the development of a Professional Learning Network (PLN), as an educational tool and as a means to promote the sharing and transfering of info with others of like interest. The clip is called: #140conf Interview #25 w/ @nmhs_principal and [...]

Performativity, Teachers and Statistics.

I have just been reading an article by Stephen Ball titled “The teacher’s soul and the terrors of performativity” (2003). In the beginning of his article he quotes Boyle (2001); ‘We take our collective pulse 24 hours a day with the use of statistics.  We understand life that way, though somehow the more figures we [...]

Maintaining Classroom Discipline, 1947

I was reading some twitters when I noticed that another educator had provided links to some interesting classroom management clips. Here is an interesting one to consider in relation to some of the principles of behaviour management in the classroom, some elements of the Scientific Theory of management re the outcomes of teaching and learning [...]

Halogen Young Leaders Day – Sydney

The National Young Leaders Day For Secondary Students Sydney Monday, 23rd November 2009 Sydney Convention Centre Darling Drive, Darling Harbour 9:15am – 2:30pm

Representation of a Principal

I am using this scene from the series ‘Summer Heights High’ by Chris Lilley to examine the portrayal of a school Principal. I have deliberately chosen to use a source other than professional texts, journals or research. more about “Representation of a Principal“, posted with vodpod