road trip presentation for blog

Economy

Amesbury School

6/8/2011

PD With Jan Robertson

Coaching and Reflection

• Language of leadership• Individual values and their influences• Active Listening• Reflective Questioning• Conceptual thinking and the big educational picture• Clarifying vision direction• Team Building and getting to know each other

KEY OUTCOMES

Auckland Bound

Personality Testing with

Colin Prentice

• Identifying individual ways of working

• Our team working dynamics, strengths and barriers

• Identifying gaps and specific planning to fill them – appointment of staff

• Whole staff dynamics and needs

School Visits

Tauranga Hamilton

Auckland

Schools

School Visits

Hingaia Peninsula School

Mission Heights School

Discussions with Leadership Teams

• Sharing new school journeys

• Successes and challenges in opening their new schools

• Descriptions of many processes worked through

Key ideas to focus on • Set up sound education delivery structures from the beginning and start

the way we wish to go on• Keep looking at the big picture especially when overloaded with details

and tasks

KEY FOCUS

Shared spaces

Chairs

Tables

Staffrooms

Libraries

Playgrounds

Receptions

SCHOOL’SPRINCIPLES

SPECIAL FEATURES

KEY OUTCOMES• Clarifying our criteria and needs when purchasing furniture

• Answers to focused questions around furniture – from staff and students

• Liasing with Distinction furniture and sharing of Amesbury preferences

• Viewing and trying out a wide variety of furniture

• Observing and discussing use of flexible learning spaces

• Exploration of ways in which students are grouped to maximise learning

• Seeing 21st Century learning in action

• Every decision is based around and links to our vision - even subliminal messages

Destination Wellington

P r e p a r e f o r L a n d i n g

W E L L I N G OT N