Harvard Course: Navigating Complexity: A Leadership Program for Principals Group #1 Zoom

 Group Leaders: Dianna Mattern and Pav Singh 

  • Pav - Harvard Graduate, involved in programme for 11 years. Lives in Singapore. 
  • Dianna - Co-Founder of Principal's Centre. 27th year in the programme. 26 years a high school principal in U.S. Mentors principals. 
Participants, in speaking order:
  1. Tony - principal of p12 college near Melbourne. 
  2. MA - principal for 8 years, full primary
  3. Vicki - Principal of a p2 (Kindergarten - Year 6), west of Syndey. Principal for 16 years. 
  4. Amber - NSW education for 25 Years. Principal of a public school in Sydney. 
  5. Jennifer - DP for 10 years in NSW
  6. Louise - Queensland low socioeconomic (incl Torres Strait Island children), 17 years as a principal - in the same school 
Shared our strengths, who needs your help? How will you assist? Goals? How can you take better care of myself? What do you need from the group? What are your leadership takeaways from COVID? Who gives you support?

"Never Waste a good crisis" Winston Churchill

Maintaining Equity - Covid-related:

New South Wales - small group tutoring programme centrally funded.
Wellbeing teams - phoning home twice a week in Queensland 

What? - are the key points
So What? - is the connection / relevance to me
Now What? - are the next steps

Always coming back to - what is in the best interest of the students?

Primaries in OZ more willing to collaborate and improve than secondaries. 

PLC of 4 principals - cooperative working group, extending to senior and admin staff. 

Contract an external party to work with building vision with the staff and community - so that can engage as a participant (massive process, including wide community engagement). The things that matter stay

'The Culture of Nice' - can get in the way, and we sometimes need to become disrupters. 

Data can drive the decisions if there is an obvious need for change evident. Not so easy of the data is high.

Orientation to culture? 

Principals can be disrupters of the culture. The class will stop when you walk in, unless you are a frequent visitor.  Not there to judge - there to listen and get to know what is happening in the learning, for the children

What do we do to disrupt? 
What do we do to continue our culture?

Check materials below - as have to define a problem / challenge - given a format that may help with thinking. 







Zoom link for sessions will remain the same each time. 

Whatsapp - check small group chat. 











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