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Cultivating Curiosity

On 04-04-2017

Is your school’s culture one in which curiosity and learning from mistakes thrives? This article is Part III of the Transforming the School Narrative series. In Part I we explored the default narrative we found across a range of schools in conversations we had with teachers and leaders. Hattie in recent times has been pointing […]

Improving Performance – Social Intelligence

On 01-03-2017

Are you developing the social intelligence of your leaders and teachers as an access to improving school performance? In Part I we indicated that our focus this year is on providing the practicalities of creating an empowering narrative for learning and leadership within your school. In this article we explore some of Daniel Goleman’s research […]

On 23-02-2017

How does the narrative about learning and working affect the performance of a school? This article opens up the discussion of the importance of school leaders to explore the current dominant narrative within their schools.

On 01-09-2016

It is always pleasing to know when a difference has been made. Although it is rare to find out the effects of working with schools and teachers over a long period of time we recently discovered that an article had been written in a major Victorian newspaper about two schools we have been working with. […]

On 24-08-2016

Now that the contextual work has been done in Steps 1,2 and 3 it is time for Middle Leaders to start fleshing out the plan for the coming year.

On 03-08-2016

A guiding coalition that has the capacity to make needed change happen despite all of the forces of inertia

On 30-07-2016

I just came back from running a public Practical Steps to STEAM and Teaching Coding workshop at the fabulous Ipswich Junior Grammar School. There are three aspects I wanted to highlight from the day for you as you think and plan for enacting the Technologies curriculum next year Maker Lab for Junior Classes Luke […]

On 26-07-2016

You may have noticed, along with our Bespoke In-School Professional Learning, that we have been running Introductory STEAM and Coding workshops in schools around Australia now for the past year. It is a fun and joyful experience as we see the teachers have their “ah-ha” moments! They experience that moment of insight: “Oh! Coding isn’t […]

On 06-07-2016

Unless the teachers and middle leaders are connected to WHY change is occurring then the change is not likely to occur with any depth or sustainability. This is why developing a Case for Action is an important element for effective middle leadership

On 03-05-2016

If schools are committed to developing effective middle leaders who strategically lead their teams to accomplish school goals and embed an empowering school culture then middle leaders need to articulate their vision simply.

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Blog

Cultivating Curiosity

Improving Performance – Transforming the Narrative

Making a Difference to Schools

Step 4 – Planning for Action

Step 3 – Identifying a Guiding Coalition

Maker Labs, Planning and Raspberry Pi

STEM, Coding and the Raspberry Pi

Step 2 – Designing a Case for Action Narrative

Step 1 – Designing Middle Leader Vision Statements