by Claire | Mar 5, 2024 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
Making this visible by writing Learning Stories that enable children, families and teachers to have a voice. Leadership for all leads to learning for all. Yet what kind of leadership and what kind of learning?
by Claire | Apr 13, 2023 | Leadership, Learning Stories, Social Competence
Imagine, if you will, this scenario: A learning environment mindfully created with resilience, resourcefulness, challenge, social and cultural engagement foremost. I wonder what picture this conjures up for you.
by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Learning Stories
My teaching career began in the 1970s in a New Zealand kindergarten. There were 120 children on a roll, plus a group of five profoundly deaf children.
by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
The journey needs a vehicle, a way of taking this thoughtful gaze and giving it a focussed context. Inquiry Research helps us do this. When teams set a reflective question and methodically go about the task of answering it, they explore together aspects of their...
by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership, Pedagogy
What busy lives we lead. Always rushing from here to there, structuring our days, and time, to fit as much in as possible. Where does all of this over-scheduling leave us in terms of connecting? Connecting with the children we work with? And why is connecting so...
by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership
Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with several of the teachers from a highly motivated, leaderful teaching team. Often one of the questions I hear from leaders, managers and centre owners is how do you create a team that is motivated, passionate...