Leading to Learn

Notes on professional reading According to Ford, Ford and  Randalluch (2001), much of what people know about their world comes from conversations with others, rather than from direct experience.. Three generic types of socially constructed background conversations that engender distinct types of resistant to change. The complacent background  - "We will succeed in the future, the way we have in the past". "Just leave things as they are." People continue to practice once-successful strategies. The resigned background - "This probably won't work either", "I can't make any difference". Constructed from historical failure. Normally failure is blamed on someone else. The cynical background - "Who are they kidding? There is no way this will work". "I don't know why they bother". Likely to include references to being let down by more powerful others. Important to bring these conversations into the open, rath

Notes taken at First Time Principal's Residential, Auckland "Stop going through the process for the sake of it, and focus on the learning". - Hon. Hekia Parata "Learn stuff AND make some changes" - Dr Brian Annan - Auckland University "How are we engaging these students in the learning process?" - Karen Mose - Southern Cross Campus, Auckland "How do we do it our way?" - Dr Brian Annan - Auckland University Importance of giving exemplars of high achievement in Māori to our students, as with the role models from Te Aute College in the 1800s - rather than a deficit model. "What messages are we giving our students?" - Hana O'Regan, ChCh Polytechnic Institute of Technology

"Learn the difference between what you think you need to do and what you need to do ... and focus your energies on the later."