Leading Learning Out Loud

A link to my Reflective Doc ...  2017 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1znhzY2IdXXpmiOBzritfJZJfQ0RTLOYp5xnTkT-ZRuI/edit

Helping Teachers to Thrive and Build Resilience https://www.edutopia.org/article/helping-teachers-thrive How are we doing against the following ?? 1. Accept emotions.  Teaching is emotional labor. Human beings have emotions. When teachers demonstrate emotions, you don’t have to fix them. People often feel better when their emotions are simply acknowledged. You can say something simple like, “I can see that you’re feeling anxious,” or “I hear the frustration in your voice.” Make it OK to have feelings and OK to express them. Know that you may need to help people learn some ways to respond to and express their feelings in healthy ways. This speaks to your own emotional intelligence in that you can recognize other people’s feelings and manage your own feelings about their feelings. The emotional intelligence of a leader is a primary aspect of leadership. I have been working hard to listen more and respond less.   Helping teachers to name how they are feeling and then man...

Nelson Intermediate School Impressive Mihi Whakatau.   Lots of heart in the school and loads of pride. Large number of refugee from places such as Myanmar and Bhutan. (Traumatised). Drift bikes at break times available for children.    Dog training going on (teacher's dog).   Bike able to be ridden around the school at breaks also. Theme - World on a Plate.   Across all Tech areas and back into classes with Inquiry focus for the term.   In workshop - making all sorts of functional things related to food (Yr 7s wooden spoons, salad servers, Yr8 cheese boards, chopping boards, wooden serving trays). Complex behaviour issues.   Sadly two exclusions.     Constant negative behaviour of two children having a wide spread affect on the culture of the school.   Struggling to manage complexity of this. Broadgreen Intermediate School Principal is leading the CoL.   Clear transition with obvious contributors and one main college ac...

MAC Hui My Thoughts/next steps : Karakia at BOT meetings Mihi at Staff Meetings - rotate chair and responsibility Appraisal conversation - talk about your Māori students and what you know about them and how you have engaged with families. My thoughts re the impacts on my practice in the last year ... Keeping Māori at the fore front Keeping a lense on Māori and wellbeing TAI - student data and narratives for children Whānau - child - teachers My thoughts on the challenges ahead ... Getting everyone on the same page.  We have a couple of outliers. Supporting/coaching teachers to view students wholistically (beyond bhr) and to persevere with relationships.

Dear Mrs Clarke, Thank you for being such an amazing and caring Principal from behalf of breens. You are my favourite Principal by far. You are such an inspiration  for me and so positive To everyone. You always have something positive to say and you never let us down. You are my favourite person at Breens and I will always come to you for help. You are awesome and you make Breens such an amazing and safe place for me to come! Thank you, From Ema Mokoupu. Dear Mr M and Mrs Clarke, Thank you for setting up the licence program that we all know and love. I am very grateful for the opportunity that Breens Students get and the variety of tasks we can all work on and enjoy. It teaches everybody to show Belonging, Beauty, Boldness, Bravery, and Brilliance. Thanks to you two us Breens students are never bored. The licence program is a really good thing about the school, and it takes up a lot of both of your time. Thank you. From Nina R. :) On days when I ques...

How the Brain Works  Power Point from Sandra / Steve Unlearning things can prove really difficult for our kids who have been "pre-programmed by what has happened to them in their first few years." It takes 90 times of repetition to learn new things.   Calm and ready to learn conditions are necessary. Children has more neuroplasticity than adults. website - smarter everyday. http://www.smartereveryday.com/about/ Self Regulation Definition: Reducing the frequency and intensity of strong impulses by managing stress-load and recovery.     Self regulation makes self control possible. Children experiencing difficulty - caregivers emotional reactivity, enviro, physical. What going on under the behaviour - can be some or many of these things social/emotional competence, cogn/academic, communication, self-regulation and sensor-motor functioning. How do we teach children to regulate emotions? cool videos online "second step programme" encouraging childre...

https://www.leadershipmatters.org.uk/articles/feeling-the-chill-with-your-team-try-warming-things-up-with-the-scarf-model/ Have you taken the temperature with your team recently?  Do you know how attuned they really are to your vision for taking the school forward?  Are they energised or drained by the work they do, day in, day out?  And do you know how they connect their values and aspirations to their role and responsibilities? The SCARF model was developed from the findings of neuroscience as to what drives human behaviour and how people interact socially.   The model is made up of five areas:  Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness .   S tatus – our sense of worth in relation to others C ertainty – our ability to predict the future A utonomy – our sense of control over events R elatedness – our sense of safety with others F airness – our perception of fair exchanges between people The working relationship a leader...

St Francis of Assisi (new build) Above: Books on moveable shelves to create flexibility Above: Recessed doors save space Below right: breakout space Above:Larger space - doubles as class/shared Below: Access to outdoor spaces From the Principal: Not liking where admin is.  Wishing this was placed more central to the learning. Like the upstairs spaces with recessed glass doors to create flexible spaces. Bag storage a problem.  Too many all together.  Congestion. Breakout rooms work well also.  Not specific large group area but the areas allow themselves to be used that way if desired. Two separate outdoor spaces with roofs allow for alfresco learning when weather allows. My wonderings: How can we replicate a similar design for our build?    The flexibility of the upstairs spaces would work well in our model of teaching and learning also. Wairakei School (remodel) From the Staff: Loving the way the building handles sound...

Mathew Johnstone www.mathew.johnstone.com.au Black Dog Institute   https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/ E is for emotion I had a Black Dog, his name was Depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc Who are these people? What do you know about them?   Facts/quote about resilience/courage Hello day!  Expect good things The bookmarks of life - success/failure ... life/death ... happy/sad  joy/pain ... sickness/health The hills and dales of life "own your problems, they don't own you." Don't suppress what is going on or avoid the pain. Go with the rip.  Acceptance of the feeling and push on. Stuff happens.   Take charge.  Run towards it. Own what is going on for you. Be patient.  Breathe.   Take things in bite size chunks to deal with. It's ok to be vulnerable. It's ok to not feel ok, the trick is not to get stuck. Our thoughts are not facts. Move.  Eat well.  Connect with others. L...