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Cooperation vs Collaboration School Leadership

On 23-03-2020

“Are you operating at the level of cooperation or collaboration as a leadership team?” Through the inquiry into this question most leadership teams end up realising that they are mostly cooperating rather than collaborating. This is not a bad place to be but it highlights an area that school leadership teams can work upon to […]

On 14-03-2019

When the Victorian Department of Education released the Framework for Improving Student Outcomes in 2015 I rejoiced – especially the initiative on “Building Leadership Teams”. This initiative was defined as: “Effective schools build an improvement culture by developing the capabilities of their leadership team. Schools do this by using evidence-based data, implementing proven coaching and feedback […]

From Vision to Leadership in School

On 13-02-2018

Are you disrupting your school culture? Society is in the midst of an extraordinary period of disruption – partly driven by technology but I believe mostly driven by the unintended consequences of the technology (short media cycles, constant online connectedness, increasing self-focus and self-gratification, perceptions of anonymity online, globalisation, etc). The Age of Information seems […]

But we’ve always done it this way! Challenging our assumptions…

On 22-01-2018

Schools and teachers often ask us to support them in embedding the Technologies Curriculum or to talk about how they can go about nurturing critical and creative thinking better or deepening the problem solving skills of students or even developing the students to be active learners rather than passive ones. Whilst I think these […]

Part 2 – Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School

On 04-08-2017

How we used the Design Thinking process to empower teachers to come to a deeper understanding of the design process and to come up with their own ideas to embed Design Thinking in their school. This is part 2 of the thinking and planning that went into creating a 90 minute design challenge that would […]

Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School – Part 1

On 10-07-2017

A day of experiencing and using design thinking at the forthcoming Bendigo Tech school 10 Victorian Tech Schools As you may or may not have known the Victorian Department of Education is in the midst of establishing ten Tech schools in various regions around Victoria. The intent is that these “state-of-the-art Tech Schools will use […]

On 15-09-2011

Recently I wrote a reply to a school who was asking me about Growth mindsets as a school philosophy and also how to go about framing the need for school cultural change. While I was writing it I realised how critical what I was writing was for many schools. As such I have included it […]

On 03-05-2011

In this week’s blog I am exploring two areas impacted by the shift into an era of rapid change How to have school leaders empower their staff How technologies will shape education in the near future Whilst much of this blog is from other sources the highlights are mine. Those of you who have worked […]

On 24-03-2011

I recently had an email conversation with a friend of mine in the USA who asked me what I meant when I told her that one of the areas we are now working in is “culture shifting schools”. As I wrote my reply I had to really think about what our vision is when we […]

On 04-03-2011

I have realised over the past 6 months how few schools are actually clear about what their long term vision is. Part of the impact of this lack of vision and disciplined building of this vision is that schools can quite often be focussed on things that disperse their power and ability. They become like […]

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Cooperation vs Collaboration School Leadership

A Framework for Developing Teachers Part I

From Vision to Leadership in School

But we’ve always done it this way! Challenging our assumptions…

Part 2 – Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School

Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School – Part 1

Growth Mindset and School Cultural Change

How schools can thrive in an era of rapid change

Preparing a school for 21st Century Learning

Developing 21st Century School Leadership