@chrishipkins In May: "Treasury suggested the government scale back funding increases for special needs, and advised that increases to funding rates for EC services and schools were not a priority because there was no evidence they could not cope." Surely this was a joke?!?
Check out the Education Council's podcast on Modern Learning Environments. I am on the panel along with Mark Wilson (Principal Cashmere High School), @mosborne01 (Director Leading Learning) and Bobby Hunter (Professor Massey University. https://t.co/YnnkukM42T
@chrishipkins the impression the NZEI negotiating team got from MOE was that the strike never happened!The only thing gained was that they saved money!?! What's going on?!? There is a lot of frustration growing!
@chrishipkins The government crows additional $$ into school resourcing but they haven't changed the criteria which means it's just unspent millions. Don't get me started on the SENCO role which is under resourced and to my knowledge the Ministry has refused to discuss!
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - economics Nobel-laureate Herbert Simon. Meaning, the more items we attend to, the less time we can allot to each, and the less well we will perform any one of them. (Great at Work - Morten T Hansen)
@OwenEastwood on developing a high performance culture:
1. Select on character
2. Understand strategy for change
3 co-write purpose
4. Devolve leadership
5. Encourage a learning environment
6. Turn standards into action through peer-to-peer enforcement
"Without change there would be no challenges. Without challenges there would be no growth. Without growth there would be no purpose. Without purpose there would be no life.” Alexander den Heijer