Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Make a joyful noise…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 9, 2012
- In: capacity-building | change | Equality | Family | Inclusion | Leadership | Pastoral care | Personal | PLN
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It’s been a wonderful weekend. On Friday, the feast of the Epiphany, our friend Chucks was ordained priest at our church, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow. He was ordained by the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, the Right Revd. Dr Gregor Duncan. And on Sunday, Fr Chucks celebrated his first Holy Communion and Evensong as a [...]
A police state?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 2, 2011
- In: Equality | Leadership | Racism
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This was the scene outside my office on Monday of this week. Now just to explain a little, my window looks out onto St Andrew’s Street and directly opposite is the Glasgow JP court. You can see a grey car in the picture. It was parked in the cycle lane over double yellow lines. In [...]
Oh well, Mr Gove…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 6, 2011
So Micheal Gove is reading David Brooks at the moment. Interesting that. Of course, Brooks asserts that our subconscious directly affects our success potential. Nothing new there really- Freud was arguing that point over one hundred years ago, although of course, recognising and developing potential is an important trait characteristic of a successful leader… And [...]
GLOW…Statistics, statistics, and more statistics…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 26, 2011
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | teaching and learning
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Some interesting GLOW stuff came out in the wash yesterday. Andrew Brown, head honcho of GLOW (who’s been digitally rather quiet of late) when speaking at an education and technology conference in Belfast (#agendani on Twitter) fell back on statistics again, I assume, to demonstrate to our Northern Irish friends how wonderful and all-pervading, the [...]
Jamie’s dream school and what it really teaches us
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 9, 2011
I don’t know if you watched this, but there’s been some interesting reaction from the press and, more importantly, teachers themselves. I think its a bit condescending of cheeky chappie Jamie O to waltz into schools and try to show us how to, as he put it, re-engage kids with education. After all, we know [...]
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Native linguists removed from schools..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 19, 2011
- In: Inclusion | Literacy | Leadership | Equality | change | capacity-building | future of education
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An excellent piece from Tom Shields in today’s Herald newspaper. He takes a rather witty and beautifully written series of pot-shots at Glasgow City Council Education dept for removing all foreign language assistants from their schools by remembering, somewhat fondly, his own experiences of the benefits of language assistants. The enormous benefits of having native [...]
Council in crisis- Efficiency savings mean Autism services may suffer…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 18, 2010
Lots of speculation in the press recently about impending cuts in local government spending. Education authorities are facing a call to merge so classrooms may be spared the worst of the cuts in public spending. The education forums are also getting in on the act. The following is paraphrased from a comment which appeared a [...]
A new culture of openness ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 10, 2010
- In: GLOW | Leadership | LTS | Research
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…..as implied by Andrew Brown , newly appointed ‘head of GLOW’ at LTS, last year when talking about the challenges facing the Scottish schools intranet project. A radical departure for LTS. A brave new world indeed. And in the spirit of this supposed new era to be ushered in by Andrew, I asked him to publish [...]
The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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“Your Majesty,” the prime minister said, “we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit.” The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about [...]
MJ Online article
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 25, 2009
- In: capacity-building | CPD | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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Here’s the link to the article by Merlin on agent4change.net. Thanks for all the comments so far on twitter http://www.agent4change.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=462:the-innovators-5-jaye-richards&catid=90:the-innovators&Itemid=460
Why top-down initiatives in education sometimes fail…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 25, 2009
- In: change | future of education | Leadership | Research
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An interesting letter in a recent edition of the Herald (Tuesday 23rd June) provides a much more objective view of the recent graduation of Scotland’s first teachers qualified to teach Mandarin, and the Confucius classroom ‘hub’ schools set up to further the teaching of Mandarin. In the letter, Prof. Stuart Picken argues that if Scotland [...]
New term – New job…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 29, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | networking | PLN | teaching and learning
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It’s been a really intense school year, what with the onward march of GLOW, a couple of research projects, ACfE, and the ‘BrainBoosters’ primary/secondary games-based learning project. Lots of interesting work so the feeling of moving slowly towards the summer break was really kicking in last week big time. Add to this another knee operation, [...]
Seth Godin on Tribes and leadership
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 27, 2009
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I know many have read Seth’s latest book ‘Tribes’….there’s a great TED talk he gave in February here.. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
Education 2020 and Islay High School 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 16, 2009
Arriving at Islay High School early last Friday morning in the glorious sunshine, it was easy to forget the 0400hrs start from Glasgow. Some great company and conversation in the car with David Noble, Maureen Park and driven by Katie Barrowman and so the journey up to Kennacraig passed by through some amazing scenery in [...]
School Science Summit
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 6, 2009
I was invited to take part in the Scottish Government School Science Summit earlier this week. Thought-provoking questions, some great discussions, and very good to see all stakeholders engaging in the debate on a change agenda for science. Interesting speech from Fiona Hyslop and some great stuff from Jack Jackson. And great to network, and [...]
Think the unthinkable – what if ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 10, 2009
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | Leadership
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How often in education (or the public sector as a whole for that matter) is planning a matter of one issue=one solution via one distinct journey? I’ve stood on the sidelines and watched with a curious interest so many school, authority and national education initiatives, projects, systems and policy changes take place, with varying degrees [...]
Self-evaluation – a wider purpose ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Inspection | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance
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There’s a lot of this going on all over the country at the moment. The new HMIE-lite inspection regime relies upon schools undertaking rigorous internal quality assurance where the concept of using self-evaluation to inform and enhance both the learning and teaching and just as importantly the life and ethos of a school. I blogged [...]
Quo Vadis GLOW – revisited.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Just over six months ago, I wrote a blog post about the direction that the GLOW project was taking. As I’ve been working on the data for some journal papers about using ICT to raise attainment it’s probably timeous to revisit this post and review the comments made at that time. A big part of [...]
We live in interesting times…TESS article – January 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 24, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | Finland | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Here is the unedited version of the TESS article from Friday January 23rd ’09 ( http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007643) We live in interesting times. The pace of change is faster than ever. We’ve moved from a 20th century geared towards mass-production to satisfy consumerism into a 21st century in which innovation and creativity will be the watch-words. And [...]
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