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So I recently met with my supervisor for the doctoral process for him to review what I’ve written so far. I’ve been pretty pleased with how the writing has gone, but these conversations are valuable because he provides me with such great feedback, as well as identifying new directions for the writing to head in….

Started watching ‘The Newsroom’ recently. It’s good stuff – written by Aaron Sorkin who did the West Wing as well. I watched the West Wing for the first season, back when it first came on television, and then George W Bush was elected, and the show seemed to lose all relevance in the farcical drama…

As part of the ACEL Conference, I attended a presentation by Dr Phil Browning about the importance of trust in school leaders. Basically, I found this interesting for three main points: 1) Trust and transformative schools are closely linked. 2) Trust in the head is linked to trust in the whole school. 3) Trust is…

I’m currently sitting in the National Convention Centre in Canberra as I write this post. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been invited to present a session about active global citizenship education at the Australian College for Educational Leadership Conference. It’s the first time I’ve been to the ACEL Conference (at about $800 per delegate,…

This might seem a little bit late but for good reason: I finally feel ready to think reasonably objectively about the 2013 Federal Election and what went on there. Perhaps because of my doctoral studies, or maybe just the age that I am, I really think that I’m developing more of an understanding of the…

Teaching is an active profession – it’s not something that should be addressed from the perspective of ‘she’ll be right’. Every moment in the classroom is precious – students will have few other opportunities in their lives where they have little else to do but learn, and there are so few competing interests for them….

I’ve never really understood the lure of consultants. It’s strange, but in education they are, to some degree, still a relatively new phenomenon. I’m sure there have been consultants in business and other fields for as long as there have been those fields, but in education, for a long while, it seemed that consultants were…

Ominous title, yes? Perhaps not such an ominous subject matter, but still, worthy of a few lines here. I recently finished The Chathrand series of novels, by Robbert V.S. Redick. Fantastic books, all of them, some kind of British Empire – Naval Adventure – Epic Fantasy combination, with enough new and interesting ideas to make…

Recently had a bit of a whirlwind trip to Ballarat for a cousin’s wedding. I hadn’t been there since uni games in approximately 2001, I think, where I broke my collarbone in the second bout. Anyway, I had good memories of that time, and I was expecting to enjoy it again. And I did, I…

Recently had the chance to work with a stellar group of young men and woman. All in year 8, they put together and prepared a student leadership conference for other young people in the area. They had put together the program, invited special guests, sorted out catering and devised a whole program of workshops and…