12 December 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

The holidays are nearly here! On behalf of the Waikato Principals Association, I wish al school leaders a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a relaxing holiday!

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

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WPA Dates

Quality te reo Māori me ōna Tikanga Workshops

Kia ora koutou,

The Jeanne Gilbert Consultancy will continue to offer the popular Quality te reo Māori me ōna Tikanga series of three workshops per term in terms 1 and 2 in 2017.

Dates for Quality Te Reo Māori workshops 2017

The workshops will be advertised again early in 2017. Please feel free to register now and confirm numbers in the new year.

Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te tau hou.

Nā Jeanne Gilbert
Jeanne Gilbert Consultancy
Pre- and In-service Teacher Educator
Ph 07 8255728
Mobile: 027 29 42178
jeanne.gilbert.consultancy@gmail.com

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. --Rita Mae Brown

New Bilingual Resources for 2017

Start 2017 off with a commitment to more te reo in the classroom with these new bilingual resources.

Arahia Books are user-friendly for teachers and engaging for students. This new series is published by local author and publisher, Sharon Holt, well known for her multi-award winning Te Reo Singalong books. The author, Alice Patrick, is a Māori Language adviser who oversaw the writing of the Māori Language curriculum guidelines.

These resources will help teachers to meet the requirements of PTC 10 – working in a bicultural context, by incorporating Māori language and tikanga. Order now for delivery of your Term 1 resource packs in January and payment in February.

Hmmm…

From Geoff Booth at Puketaha…

Pushiness – Seth Godin

Deliberate, focused, generous, confident, thoughtful, these are all good things. Being pushy isn't.

Imagine you had a check for $100,000 made out to someone else. Someone you don't know but can reach out to. How hard would it be for you to cajole this person to take the check from you and cash it?

We call someone pushy when they are trying harder for forward motion than we are. We call them pushy when they have more at stake, or more to gain, than we think we do.

It's easy to rationalize your pushiness, imagining that the other person really wants to do this project. And it's just as easy to minimize the value you add, hiding in a corner instead of bringing your value forward.

Pushiness is in the eye of the beholder. Generosity requires that we be aware of how the other person is feeling about the forward motion we're trying to make.

A Reading…

Leadership…

A Thought…

… unless it’s a new motorbike or set of golf clubs…

A Laugh

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