Leading Learning Out Loud

PB4L Follow up from July Team Day Next steps - Staff Session week 4 Coke Bottle example re negative and positive comments etc Our tree - 5 values - essence/dispositions/clear relation to KC/what could stay and go? What are the 5 top behaviours that we would really like to focus in on present?  How do these align to our values? Mudmaps/Duty staff session (NM) PB4L Lead Day August The neuroscience behind acknowledgements.  The release of endorphins.  Feel good factor. Effective positive feedback to children.   What you SAY is really important - then acknowledge with a free and frequent (verbal every time!) Revise active supervision.   How's it going?   Zone one, blue court presence.  4/1 is the "cake." The free and frequent is the icing.  What is the mud map data showing us?  NM to use slideshow in a Monday afternoon session also.   4/1 focus in the classrooms also.  Focus for class...

CAIMS PD with Lester Flockton What kind of leader am I really? Educationist or Managerial Technicist Follower Leader or Leader Leader 1st priority. Know your school.  Know your students.  Know your teachers. Avoid being an educational swinger!  In education's NZ system the pendulum is constantly swinging. We need to encourage and engage in critical analytical thinking and debate before deciding whether to swallow ie current DMIC in CoL. Conversations around the steadily decline in our NZ results, especially in Mathematics and English.   NS had absolutely no effect on raising achievement. When considering NZC ... LOCALISATION - the educational needs/interests of our school's students.   ie Enviro, Preschool Opps, WearArts, Culture ... The character of the school's community. The range and availability of local resources and the resourcefulness of school leaders and teachers. Examples: Our street names, our water ways, our commu...

Taking the lead … Celebrating our New Zealand Curricula Lester Flockton ·      Te Whāriki ·      The NZC ·      Te Marautanga o Aotearoa Have a clear sense of direction.   What sort of leader I am?   Educationalist or managerial technicist Follower leader or leader leader Courageous or timid Beware of Education’s Swingers! “Do you openly encourage and engage in critical analytic thinking an debate before deciding whether to swallow?” In which direction, whose direction and how? Important for the principal to be leading the direction, not just delegating to senior management. Different mindsets around NSs ….     Focus in on what each curriculum area really means (without looking at achievement objectives).   The essence of each area. Curriculum Literacy: 4 vision statements *8 principles 7 values 5 key comps 7+ learning areas D...