In this final session together for Term Two the focus was on identifying what has worked well while also keeping in mind the key challenges in working systemically. Each school had the opportunity to discuss a key intentional action they have undertaken to work systemically by sharing ‘what has worked well’ and ‘what challenges…

System-wide improvement demands we focus on the specifics of our daily work while also keeping the big picture in clear focus. In this session the focus was on how to engage across the systems and people you identified in Session One. To what do you need to pay attention, to make traction in your improvement initiative/s? How can we do this in a way that reduces overload? You worked within your school groups as some of these issues are specific to each school.

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: We hear from Milford School in relation to their leadership practices to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Our work together in Term Two builds on your focus from Term One. We concentrate on ways to work systemically to…

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: Maggie presented processes to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. A key practice that enables us address deeper and unproductive habitual practices is engaging in dialogue. During this workshop we offered some tools and guidelines that help shift conversations…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie presents a leadership practice to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Habitual practices stay in play for numerous reasons. Some contribute to learning, development and trust. Some reflect who we are and in the words of Parker Palmer, “we teach who…

  With a focus on starting well with the new school year, planning has taken priority both collectively and individually. Within days once students are back, the familiar patterns kick in, and our focus (rightly) turns to the present situation, the following day, and the rest of the week. Sometimes, our interventions regarding patterns may…