2 November 2015

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

This week’s email update…..

Please note the close off date for having something included in the Monday Mailing is 3:00 PM on the preceding Thursday.

Kind regards

Pat

Help – Stress Policy

ERO recently asked a school to see their stress management policy or procedures. Do you have something useful?

Please email to principal@deanwell.school.nz and I will pass it on.

Interestingly… we had a review at Deanwell last term. No mention was made of stress management…

Help – Teacher Needed

Fixed 2 term position (maternity leave) teaching Year 1 and 2 commencing the start of the year.

If you know of an experienced junior school teacher looking for employment in 2016 please either forward their details to or ask them to contact

The Principal
Forest Lake School
Hamilton.
07 8492256 or 0274434075

Thanks

Chris Jessop principal@forestlake.school.nz

WPA Dates

	November	20	Friday	WPA Principals Dinner 2015
2016	April	9	Saturday	Road Trip – Singapore April 9 -15 2016
	May	31	Tuesday	NZPF – APPA Conference – Auckland May 31 – June 3 2016

WPA Principals Dinner

The WPA Principals dinner is on the evening of Friday November 20.

Venue:	Waikato Stadium	Gate 5, Seddon Road, Whitiora, Hamilton
Time:	6:30 PM	Drinks at bar – complimentary (drink enough and they will tell you how nice you look!!). After 7:30 PM, you buy your own drinks at the bar.
	7:15 PM	Dinner served - with complimentary wine on the tables
	8:30 PM	Band starts playing

Principals are free. It is $60 for partners.

Last day for booking is 15th November - no bookings taken after that date as numbers will have been confirmed.

Core Education Breakfast

The next Core Education Breakfast is on 5 November with Susan Ngawati Osbourne and Nigel Marshall presenting on Mana Potential - A culturally based tool for the development of positive change.

During the last three years the Mana Potential model has been used within a wide range of school settings including as:

• a tool used by teachers, school counsellors and deans to build self-awareness and strategies around both academic and behavioural challenges
• a whole of class approach developing unity and cohesion
• a staff development tool to build a deeper understanding of the Māori world and rapport between staff and students
• a transition model in secondary schools for all year nine students
• training for some RTLB clusters (The Mana Potential Model is now being incorporated into the RTLB training programme at Massey University).

Jo Wilson
Senior Consultant
CORE Education Ltd M: 021 2780768 T: jmw58

Help - Tony Wagner

Heather Tanner from Elstow-Waihou sent a very interesting email to me last week. Have a read; if you have done work around Tony Wagner’s ideas, please contact Heather at principal@elstow-waihou.school.nz.

I am trying to get a sense if anyone had done work with Tony Wagner

I imagine that many schools reflect/interpret the seven survival skills that he talks about

but I wondered if there were any schools that had taken a wholesale adoption of the Seven Survival Skills as listed below and if they had what changes had they noticed? What impact did it have on teacher pedagogy and student learning?

CRITICAL THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING

“The idea that a company’s senior leaders have all the answers and can solve problems by themselves has gone completely by the wayside…The person who’s close to the work has to have strong analytic skills. You have to be rigorous: test your assumptions, don’t take things at face value, don’t go in with preconceived ideas that you’re trying to prove.”

—Ellen Kumata, consultant to Fortune 200 companies

COLLABORATION ACROSS NETWORKS AND LEADING BY INFLUENCE

“The biggest problem we have in the company as a whole is finding people capable of exerting leadership across the board…Our mantra is that you lead by influence, rather than authority.”

—Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Cisco

AGILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

“I’ve been here four years, and we’ve done fundamental reorganization every year because of changes in the business…I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills.”

—Clay Parker, President of Chemical Management Division of BOC Edwards

INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

“For our production and crafts staff, the hourly workers, we need self-directed people…who can find creative solutions to some very tough, challenging problems.”

—Mark Maddox, Human Resources Manager at Unilever Foods North America

EFFECTIVE ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

“The biggest skill people are missing is the ability to communicate: both written and oral presentations. It’s a huge problem for us.”

—Annmarie Neal, Vice President for Talent Management at Cisco Systems

ACCESSING AND ANALYZING INFORMATION

“There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren’t prepared to process the information effectively, it almost freezes them in their steps.”

—Mike Summers, Vice President for Global Talent Management at Dell

CURIOSITY AND IMAGINATION

“Our old idea is that work is defined by employers and that employees have to do whatever the employer wants…but actually, you would like him to come up with an interpretation that you like—he’s adding something personal—a creative element.”

—Michael Jung, Senior Consultant at McKinsey and Company

Many thanks with this.

Regards

Heather Tanner

Hmmm… Differentiation

Tech Tip – Google Drive Photos

The wonders of the cloud… I was sitting at the Catchup Day on Thursday, listening with keen interest to Derek. There was once slide I really wanted (before Hamish told us we would get everything via SlideShare!) so I took a photo off it on my old Android/Samsung phone.

I then clicked on the photo in the Gallery, touched the Share icon, and touched Drive. Whamo! The photo was in Google Drive, accessible to me and other staff members for a variety of uses.

Simple, but powerful.

Health & Happiness: Self-Love

This is an excellent article; well-worth a read. From the Happiness Institute.

For too many, "self-care" is equated with "selfishness". And this is very unfortunate. Because if we don't take care of ourselves we can't ever take care of others! To be a good parent, for example, one needs to be a happy and healthy individual; looking after my own health and wellbeing allows me to set a good example for, and to do much more for my children So this week we focus on this important issue and we encourage you all to consider that selfishness (to a point) may well be the foundation of selflessness...

Reading – Social Skills

A Thought – Patience

And a Laugh

A priest is walking down the street one day when he notices a very small boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street.

However, the boy is very small and the doorbell is too high for him to reach.

After watching the boy's efforts for some time, the priest moves closer to the boy's position.

He steps smartly across the street, walks up behind the little fellow and, placing his hand kindly on the child's shoulder leans over and gives the doorbell a sold ring.

Crouching down to the child's level, the priest smiles benevolently and asks, "And now what, my little man?"

To which the boy replies, "Now we run!"

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