6 May 2019

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Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

Hope your first week went well.

This term we have a Study tour to Wellington, see registration and itinerary details below.

Have a great week.

Kind regards
Tony Mangan
Glenview School

WPA Dates

Connection Day James Anderson

The Agile Learner - Where Habits of Mind, Growth Mindset and Practice Unite.

James will challenge the way you and your team think about student learning.

Beginning with a Growth Mindset as the foundation for effective learning, James will outline why the research is showing us that our school based Growth Mindset interventions aren’t working, and how to fix that. He will address the False Mindset by introducing you the Mindset Continuum, and show you how to shift the conversation in your school from teaching ABOUT a Growth Mindset to teaching FOR a Growth Mindset.

For our students to thrive in a rapidly changing and increasingly challenging world, we need them not simply to learn more, but rather the need to become better learners! Combining Growth Mindset with Habits of Mind and Practice James will show you how to increase Learner Agency and develop Agile Learners. Along the way you’ll discover why the current “resiliency” agenda is setting the bar too low, and how as schools we need to move beyond resilience to creating students that are anti fragile.

Finally, James will challenge you to think differently about student “effort”. He will challenge schools to move away from vague and ineffective measure of student effort, and begin a conversation about how schools and teachers can work with parents to help students to become better learners.

Wellington Study Tour

Thank you to those who registered for the Study Tour to Wellington. We have some great schools and an afternoon with Parliamentarians organised. If you intend going please register now. Remember you need to book your own flights. The programme has been designed to allow most people to be arriving Wednesday morning and leaving Friday afternoon. See the itinerary below.

Follow this link.

Developing leaders PD

Earlier this year you will remember Andrew Jones from the WPA Wairakei retreat.

I have now engaged him to run a Developing Leaders professional learning workshop – please see programme overview attached.

This is the programme Andy talked about at Wairakei, and the importance of developing leaders at all levels within our schools.

This workshop is suitable for DPs, APs, team leaders (or equivalent), Kāhui Ako across and within school leaders, and also aspiring leaders.

If interested, please complete the rego form below. I’m sending it to Wairakei attendees first, before opening up to the wider network. There will be restricted numbers, so get in early.

Andrew Jones: Developing Leaders workshop – register here.

Raglan Adventure Race

Entries are limited – get in quick!

Date: Sunday 30th June 2019.
Duration: approx. 2-3hrs.
Location: 284 Okete Road, Raglan.

Key times:

• 8:30 – Registration
• 9:45 – Race brief
• 10:00 – Race start
• 13:00 – Prize giving

Cost: $25 per person. Online entries only (closes Thursday 27th June 2019).

Categories:

Primary / Family (2-3 Person)
Primary / Family (4-5 Person)
Primary / Family teams must have an adult over 18yrs and at least one primary aged child in their team.

Intermediate Aged Students (up to 5 Person)
Intermediate team members must all be Year 7 or 8. These teams have no adults.

High School Aged Students (up to 5 Person)
High School team members must all be Year 7 to 13. These teams have no adults.

Social (up to 5 Person)
Social teams are for adults and also families with no primary aged children.

Ngā Mihi
Frank Young
Te Ao Mārama School
T - 07 595 0595
E - francis@teaomarama.school.nz
W - rama.school.nz

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