It is period five on a Friday and I have my Chemistry class. They are super engaged, collaborating, being creative and not doing any Chemistry. The trigger was these kinex kit carousels that the year 7 class had made. They are doing a simple machines unit, and so had made the carousels to investigate gears.Continue reading “‘Wasting’ a friday afternoon”
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The SNA apocalypse….
This time of year tends to be super angsty. Stress of exams, marking exams, writing reports about exams, exams, EXAMS, EXAMS. It is really easy to get caught up in it, and certainly before exams I was spiralling into a sort of bitter education is soooo broken and I am doing nothing to fix itContinue reading “The SNA apocalypse….”
Taking a deep breath…
On Friday I went to a TENZ mini conference hosted at Tahuna intermediate. I had meet Bill at the 21 st century learning design session in the last holidays, and was honoured (and flattered) to be asked to open the conference by talking about strategies for implementing change in Education. And while I could onlyContinue reading “Taking a deep breath…”
You took a piece of my apple heart
And I’ll never be whole…..without you. This song is currently on repeat in my head It is a current fav, and not just because of the yarn booming and cutesy knitting and crochet. I have no idea what was in the songwriters head when she wrote it – a man who stole the sun soundsContinue reading “You took a piece of my apple heart”
A new topic is like clean sheets…. HEAVEN
I don’t know about you, but I LOVE clean sheets. That laundry powder smell, crisp smooth feeling, snuggly pillow cases. HMMMMMMMmmmmmm. Sadly, I am not a domestic goodness, nor do I know what the publicly acceptable sheet changing ratio is, but for me clean sheets in a Sunday night ritual. Fresh starts and all that.Continue reading “A new topic is like clean sheets…. HEAVEN”
Do some work
For context, I am writing this post in a unit in the Gore camp ground. Metservice tells me is 2.5 degrees C outside (feels like 1 degree C) and I have a heater on a timer…. so it is going to be chilly. While the students are in shared bunkrooms (4 per room) their heatersContinue reading “Do some work”
My thoughts on leadership
For the last year or so I have been trying to build a picture in my head of what leadership looks like for me. I’ve done some readings, listened to some amazing speakers, bounced ideas of amazing leaders and educators and watched some youtube clips and TED talks. They all were great, but still didn’tContinue reading “My thoughts on leadership”
Money money everywhere and not a drop to spend
This post is part of my NAPP reflection on school funding and the role of the Principal and Board of Trustee’s in allocating those funds. The starting question was How do principals with their BOT lead the management, monitoring and reviewing of school resourcing to ensure the schools priorities are met? School funding isContinue reading “Money money everywhere and not a drop to spend”
Photos of hands
I recently introduced a colleague to twitter. She is going to a conference and I was trying to get her enthused about all the active discussion that occurs during a conference on social media if you know where to look. I showed her my twitter stream and her comment was You have lots of photosContinue reading “Photos of hands”
Reading other blogs
This blog is inspired by Keith’s blog on his thoughts about other blogs he had been reading. It challenged me to think about my own post and also gave me ‘warm fuzzies’ that my thoughts are contributing to greater conversations. So I thought I would write some responses to some blog posts that have made meContinue reading “Reading other blogs”
ibpossum takes on tech 