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.