27 October – enCOMPASSing Part one: Using multiple framing to plan ahead
In this first workshop of two we deliberately encompassed some of your journeys through 2022 and especially some of your direction shifts related to student learning and hauora. Opportunity was provided for you to hear and learn from others again across the NLN with another Nugget of Learning. This is weaving together in action…
Read More22 September – The paradox of embracing tension and resistance as an expression of collective effort
Intentionally keeping aware of your sub-cultures across your school and Kāhui Ako is one way in which you can discern the depth and criticalness of positive professional conversations. This workshop continued the threads developed in Mark’s recent workshop with connections back to our earlier focus on inclusive practices. We drew on the concept of…
Read More1 September – Positive Professional Conversations
An essential element of wayfinding leadership is the development of a team culture that values and promotes positive professional conversations: robust debate about professional issues that matter. This session unpacked two frameworks that are useful for creating the conditions for positive professional conversations as well as acting as processes staff can use to engage…
Read More4 August – Inclusive leadership in complex times: Keeping priority learners at the forefront while …
Building on from your previous workshop on using data with Mo, we turned our attention to applying the key messages from his workshop to priority learners and barriers to learning. At the start of the workshop we revisited the questions Mo raised at the end of his presentation: What were the key messages that stood…
Read More30 June – Making the most of your data to drive improvement
There is a growing emphasis on school leaders’ use of data to make informed-decisions about improvement. Both the National Educational Leadership Priorities and the Leadership Strategy identify the use of data as a key driver/capability for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Gathering and sharing data during the pandemic was also important for schools…
Read More9 June – Understanding the role of emotion in educational change for improvement
Have you ever wanted to introduce something new in your school but been faced with what feels like ‘resistance to change’. Do you wonder why people sometimes say they are keen to try something new but nothing actually changes? In this session we explored how perceptions of risk can get in the way of change…
Read More5 May – Collaborative decision-making: The clarifying role of middle leaders as shapers of staff participation
Middle leaders play a crucial role in shaping collaborative decision-making processes. They look out from their ‘team’ as an advocate and look in to their ‘team’ as a shaper of collaborative processes. With an acknowledgement of perceived capacity levels (our last session of term one), we looked into three interrelated considerations regarding collaborative decision-making: classifying…
Read More31 March – How full is our resilience ‘tank’ near the end of term one? Assessing our capacity and wellness for collaborative leadership inquiry
At the end of the second workshop, we asked how you get a ‘measure’ of well-being and capacity across the staff and students. Being well means we are more likely to learn well, individually, collectively and collaboratively. As we approach the latter part of the first term – How much ‘giving capacity’ is across the…
Read More10 March – Connectivity in fluid times: Collaborative values in action across leadership spaces
Over the last two years we have been learning to live with disruption. For many of us the degree of disruption is perhaps unprecedented. At times it may seem like we are continually in a storm of unpredictable and fluid events. We may not be able to control the environment around us, but one thing…
Read More24 February – Wayfinding into 2022: (re)Direction forming across within-school and across-school learning spaces
At the heart of wayfinding is focusing on all the signs available to you. With so many unknowns still around us as we venture into 2022, we will be weaving some of Professor Chellie Spiller’s work on Wayfinding Leadership into our workshops. We encourage you to watch her introduce Wayfinding Leadership here before this first…
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