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... 
by Claire | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Leadership
I have used this title to pay tribute to Diti Hill’s 2001 article ‘Passion, power and planning in the early childhood centre’. I urge teachers to read it. The discussions about planning continue as many teachers struggle with the meaning of the word ‘planning’ and...