A Culture of Improvement

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Posted by Dan Watt at 9:08 AM

An Introduction

I've been inspired by reading several blogs recently. They have caused me to want to work a little harder at personal and professional i...
Ethics
Think (and act) Positive

As I prepare for a new school year, and my first year as school principal, I've had several occasions to think about the power of positi...
A Celebration of Learning

One of the schools I work at recently decided to try a new way of recognising student achievement. We are having an ongoing discussion ab...
Principles for principals

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the pr...
Learning in Depth

Learning in Depth In a recent post on cultureofyes , Chris Kennedy wrote about Kieran Egan's new book, Learning in Depth . The idea of s...
Creating a Digital Learning Commons

cc licensed flickr photo by Enkhtuvshin Refreshed, rejuvenated, revisioning... Having spent the weekend with school administrators f...
What's your sentence?

I was recently inspired by Daniel Pink's " What's Your Sentence? " project to try something similar with the staff at our ...
The First Two Days

photo by Ganymede, available on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/people/goldenhamster/ On my first day as a principal, I received a frant...
Pay Yourself First

It's all about balance... I've been reading Swiss Family Robinson to my kids before bedtimes, and every night we end up looking some...