3 August 2020

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Principals supporting Principals… Principals supporting Principles!

Kia Ora

Please find this week’s Monday Mailing below.

Welcome to week 3.

If you have not read the summary of Perry Rush’s road tour, make sure you do. Some very important issues to be debated at ministry level going forward.

Registration is now open for the term 3 Connection Day, see the outline for the day below, go to the website to register.

Have a great week.

Kia kaha

Remember this is your newsletter. Again if you would like to share a reading, opinion or an event feel free to contact me.

Kind regards
Tony Mangan
Glenview School

WPA Dates

From our President

Kia ora Koutou

I hope everyone is having a good start to term 3.

Thank you Matthew Cooper, and the team, for your communication regarding the changes happening at Sport Waikato. Matthew met with the WPA exec group last term to give us some detail regarding the drivers for change. We support the change process Sport Waikato are going through and look forward to continuing our strong working relationship. We will invite Matthew to join us at our next Connection Day to provide more detail around how Sport Waikato will work with our schools going forward.

On Thursday of last week I was invite to join a Zui, (Zoom-Hui) regarding the Urgent Response Fund (URF) the Ministry has made available to address attendance, engagement and student wellbeing post Lock-Down. Our region has approximately $5.2 million to use to develop programmes to support students. The initial thinking was focused on students and their whanau to return to school. The Ministry are keen to seek sector feedback and want the development of programme to be led by the sector. If you have any thoughts or would like to share your experiences please feel free to give me a call or flick me an email.

Based on the findings of the education review in 2019 ERO are changing how school reviews are conducted. Over the last several months ERO and sector representatives have been working in Wellington to design a new process. Phil Cowie, our ERO regional director who has lead the process, is keen to get feedback from school leaders and would like to meet with Waikato Principals to critique the work they have done so far. You are invited to a meeting where Phil will share the draft process and seek our feedback. This is an awesome opportunity to have input into a process that is high stakes for us all. The meeting will be held on Monday 17th of August, 3:30PM at Fairfield Intermediate Schools auditorium. I encourage you to attend and have your voice heard.

Don’t forget to register for our Connection Day on the 3rd of September. Places are filling fast.

Term 3 Connection Day Outline

Please find below further information in regards to our upcoming Connections Day In Term 3, we look forward to hosting a gathering of Senior School Leaders from across our Ropu on Thursday 3rd September. Register by clicking here

We look forward to having Marshall Diggs share his thoughts around Leading in a Changing World unpacking the following themes.

Sessions 1 - Leadership DNA in the 21st Century (Blurb)

With the death of the expert, and charismatic leadership now seen as a liability to an organisation, the question is only getting louder: What is the DNA of today’s best leaders? Leadership DNA takes an in-depth look at emerging requisites of 21st Century leadership and it unpacks what Emotional Intelligent Leadership entails in a school context.

Leadership DNA in the 21st Century can be challenging and juxtaposed to some of the traditional understandings and ideas about effective leadership. We will explore leadership trends since before the post-modernism era and share some of the most up-to-date and emerging leadership research from Dr Brene Brown's work: Strong Back, Soft Front, and a Wild Heart.

Session 2 - Across Generational Leadership (Blurb)

Across Generational Leadership - Building Generational IQ is an interactive workshop designed to empower collaboration and break-down generational tensions and misunderstandings. Across Generational Leadership - Building Generational IQ will equip you with leadership techniques that connects and unifies you and your team. When we are born shapes how we see the world and how we interact with the world. When we understand the “why” other generations see and think the way they do, we are much more likely to appreciate their differences and beginning listening and speaking in a language they can understand.

Today, educational leaders need to find the balance between appreciating the unique contributions of each team member and owning the capacity as a leader. By embracing the multi-generational teacher workforce and preparing your leaders appropriately, you will not only produce higher engagement and performance, but you will also begin to attract the best teachers of all ages. We will unpack the keys to winning across generations: Communication, Decision Making, Language, Loyalty, Relationships, Employment, Expectations and much more…

Session 3 - Leading High Performing Teams (Blurb)

As a leader, your job is to enable your team to thrive. Building and leading a high performing team demands that you know the nuances, personality styles, leadership styles and strengths of each of your team members. Leading High Performing Teams is a workshop designed to equip you with the keys to unlocking and building your own dream team by profiling you and your team against the leadership styles and requisites of other high performing teams.

To many leadership teams are created by default, not design. This workshop will share with you the art of knowing and positioning your team members in the right places, with the right tools, to enable you and your team(s) to reach their full potential.

Marshall Diggs (Blurb)

To go above and beyond so that people feel cared for as a whole person.

Marshall has a background as a teacher mentor, principal, community leader and keynote speaker. Marshall’s role as Director at the Growth Culture Leadership Academy perfectly combines his passion for teaching and inspiring educators, with his strengths in leadership, coaching and mentoring.

He has a wealth of experience providing transformative education training in the areas of effective leadership, culture-building, innovation, strategy and solutions for leaders, and innovative teaching practice. His strengths include effective communication, creating positive relationships, building relational trust, and developing effective teams.

Marshall is deeply committed to supporting schools in crafting leadership pathways as well as training and equipping leaders, to enable them to create cultures where everyone can thrive. Marshall enjoys reading widely, keeping up to date with the latest trends and developments in education, as well as story-time and adventures his wife and his four spirited children.

The MOE Sustainability Contestable Fund

Hello,

We are writing to draw your attention to the second round of the Ministry of Education Sustainability Contestable Fund which we think would be beneficial for your School. The fund is now open and closes on 3 August. This fund is intended to provide schools with infrastructure to improve their sustainability and one of the specific items covered by the fund is composting systems so schools can compost their own food/garden/grounds/ organic waste so as to prevent that organic waste going to landfill and generating methane emissions. A co-benefit of the compost produced is that it is then available if needed to grow food at the school, or made available for families and community to do so. For more information on the fund, check the information on the Ministry of Education website here:

We manufacture a patented composting system that is specifically designed for composting in the schools and community. We assisted a number of schools who successfully applied for the installation of our CarbonCycle Composters during the first round of funding and these systems have now been installed and are in use. The system is functional, attractive and pest-proof. We have added some photos below and here is a short video of on installation day at one of the schools.

If you wish to make an application to the fund for our composting system, here is an updated template for your use, and we would be very happy to assist you in completing the application in a way that is appropriate to your school’s sustainability objectives. Obviously the primary benefit in composting food/organic/grounds waste on site in the school has a large sustainability impact because a lot of that material would otherwise end up in landfill generating methane emissions. You will see we have highlighted the response areas in blue, and you will need to customise the form to give greater details of your specific vision for composting in your school. Please note that it is necessary to submit the endorsement of your Property Officer, so it may be a good idea to get his endorsement sooner rather than later.

Here is a general quote for our three box system - please come back to us if you need a specific quote or want to make any adjustments to it. The quote includes cost of the composters and installation, an overview workshop of composting as well as ancillary products you many need to make your composting easier at the school. Again, you may choose to make adjustments to these.

There are additional co-benefits if the school chooses to use the compost produced in kitchen gardens to produce nutritious food for the students and their families. This is one of the benefits that David Shearer referred to in an article he wrote to the NZ Herald in January 2014 in which he emphasises the need to address the issues of nutrition and encourage self-reliance: “we have lost the basic skills of how to garden and provide for ourselves” [and the need to] “put resources into schools to help teach those simple skills and enable kids to eat the food they grow themselves and understand a healthy diet.”

We are happy to discuss any questions you may have about our composting system, or composting in general, and if you need any help with your specific requirements, please feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,
Teresa

M: +64 21 627 477
carboncyclecompost.com

The uLearn is online!.

uLearn20 is online!

For the first time ever, uLearn will be delivered online, 7-8 October 2020. Two days, two themes and four keynotes, all for $200 (even less for groups!).

Explore the themes – Pohewatia te angitu | Reimagine success and Pohewatia te ako | Reimagine learning – alongside keynotes Janelle Riki-Waaka, Dr Lucy Hone, Pedro Noguera and Professor Peter O’Connor. Plus customise your learning with an extensive range of workshops. Registrations open now.

Ngā mihi nui,
Bryleigh

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Bryleigh Kingston-Rodgers · Communications Coordinator
CORE Education Ltd, Christchurch
M: 021 915 681 · W: 03 972 5456 · E: bryleigh.kingston-rodgers@core-ed.ac.nz
W: http://www.core-ed.org FB: http://www.facebook.com/coreeducation
eCommunity: edSpace · Free online PD: Connected Educator NZ

Request: Teachers Refresher Course Committee

Good afternoon,

I hope this finds you well.

TRCC is inviting you to submit a 2021 course proposal.

Please refer to the TRCC website here for background on the roles and responsibilities of course directors and planning teams, criteria for submissions, and planning and process deadlines.

If you would like to make a formal proposal to TRCC regarding a course you would like to direct, you can fill in the online proposal form on our website https://trcc.org.nz/ideas-for-courses/, or if you prefer, you can submit a pdf application to Murray Williams at murray.w@trcc.org.nz, ensuring all points listed in the proposal criteria are addressed.

Please note the closing date for 2021 course proposals is Friday, 7th August 2020.

If you would like to discuss further, please contact Murray Williams at murray.w@trcc.org.nz or 027 263 8119.

TRCC’s vision is to offer courses ‘for teachers, by teachers’ so we are looking forward to hearing from you.

Ngā mihi
Alexis

Alexis Smith
Executive Assistant
Teachers’ Refresher Course Committee
MOB: (027) 263 7242
DDI: (04) 477 6149
The Bayleys Building
Level 9, 36 Brandon Street
Wellington 6011

Request: Can you help?

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions of PLD providers for Digital Fluency/Digital Tech for 2021.

Contact Rodney Montford Principal@glenmassey.school.nz

Regards
Rodney

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Rodney Montford / Principal
Glen Massey School
897 Waingaro Road / RD 1 Ngaruawahia
07 8248423

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