Leading Learning Out Loud

Readings Education Gazette June 2022 Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning Reflections in the Breens context What are the implications from what we have learned as we look at engagement with learning in 2023 and also focus in closely on lifting school attendance? Attendance Forum framework from MOE with Rubric Attendance Pilot Projects - CAIMS and Kāhui Ako

Maintaining the Trust of the Community       Regular and simple communication was essential, especially important for the parents of year seven students who are new to our school.    Example of early comms in term one ... Parent Communication Feb 2022 Parent Comms - first covid case Ensuring our environment was safe and planning to the edges for multiple scenarios.   It was crucial to build planning documents that were detailed, specific to our context and agile enough to be adapted easily. Breens Stage and Responses to COVID - Planning Health and Safety Planning for Breens at Red Health and Safety Planning for Partnership Schools Continuity of Learning in the Face of Ongoing Staff and Student Absence Aspects that contributed to maintaining engagement levels during difficult weeks: Staff who could seamlessly step into each other roles due to the collaborative culture in their teams. Making the most of well established digital tools - Hapara, google sit...

Navigating Through Omicron Reading and Researching From late January MOE and MOH Bulletins came out thick and fast - lots to digest and make sense of! The principal networks (both national and local) were a vital source of conversation and crowd sourcing Other posts online via twitter and facebook pages helped to inform our practice as term one unfolded. Internationally, this conversation has begun.  The pandemic has exposed inequities in schooling and in societies.  In New Zealand schools, our capacity to support hybrid learning options; to provide access to devices; administration support for smaller schools; staffing to keep schools open; and ventilation in classrooms, are typical examples. In the “Learning in a Covid World’ series of reports put out by ERO, recommendations for 2022 included Preparing for hybrid/blended learning. For example, through having a clear plan of how remote learning will be supported for some students when most students have returned to the classr...

  Roadmap Workshop at West Eyreton School  Starting to make sense of our three main goals and then initiatives that fall out of these goals naturally.  Really valuable to hear the thinking and ideas from others and have some great questions directed towards my sharing also. Meeting Jen and making sense of the goals and initiatives.  Wanting to put everything in the first year and not being allowed!  A work in progress :) August BOT meeting - Presenting it to BOT for comment, questions, suggestions. Teacher Only Day - Writing the initiatives up on long rectangular pieces of paper to show that the work continues over period of time and overlaps.   Showing the team the work in progress.   Will be visually represented on Ao for the team to engage with using sticky notes - commenting, suggesting, showing interest for particular areas. Meeting at Halswell Library - 24 August - Measurement Discuss - What evidence is being gathered? Surveys - student...

PB4L Principal Forum August 2020 Mihi / intro / our school / our context / our vision Why did we want to be a part of the  PB4L professional learning? We were eager to:  be better as a team in this space, gain more tools for our kete, have a research based framework that would help shape our Breens Positive Behaviour Curriculum Where have we come from? A predict and prevent type approach  Relationships first      Restorative approach  Positive behaviour system - lacking depth and ownership   Getting alongside whānau early and working together  Development  of a school wide wellbeing support model  - strategic goals around this for 3 years. A well embedded values base as a starting point Strong collaborative team culture / these are our kids - village approach SLT drowning in orange and red type behaviours, less emphasis on positive school wide The benefits for our school - what have we achieved so far? School wide acknowledgeme...

Springboard Trust Strategic Leadership 2020   Notes towards Strategic Planning Te Puna Waiora o Hereora SCHOOL VISION - Better Every Single Time GAP ANALYSIS Three key areas (looking at trends from staff, parents/BOT, students) GOAL ONE - Achieving consistency in  BEST teaching and learning ( teaching excellence across the school) - driving student engagement and quality outcomes for all.  BRILLIANCE Initiative One - We will implement the Breens BEST Teaching Model in our school (and consolidate this work by 2023).     Initiative Two - We will prioritise student engagement across the school with a focus on reflective teacher practice (by 2022) Initiative Three - We will promote further learning through the development and delivery of a consistent framework for extension and excellence in our school. (by 2022) Initiative Four - Te Reo / Tikanga across our school GOAL TWO - building and consolidating BEST school, team and class cult...

PB4L Evaluation MOE ChCh Team Leader Day Covid Experiences: Home class/choice time Smaller report to parents - values Check and Connect Slower Pace Blended approach to learning Impacts: Stronger connections with students Well being being more of a priority Take aways that we want to keep: Avoid the rush Maintain homeroom time/class culture Student agency promoted Blended approach - real time / digital platform / feedback via seesaw Our next steps: Review who is in the team for 2020.  Rep from Māpuna? Tech? Schedule three meetings a term Introduce a consistent way to review PB4L data - both incidents and level of acknowledgements across the school. Hot spots and trends re times and severity.   Share with staff twice a term (mid and end) Using this data for decision making. PB4L and values fortnightly focus Using the Breens PB4L curriculum as a tool when assisting children to make better behaviour decisions.  ie where is this behaviour?...