Week 2- Towards Reconceptualising Leadership: The Implications of the Revised New Zealand Curriculum for School Leaders

Reading this piece of work was really thought provoking, albeit hard as I chose to leave it till 10:00 at night to read!

My school is in the midst of professional development in the form of "culture counts". Within 5 minutes of reading our designated paper, I was enthralled. So much of what I read I am living and breathing each and every day at work.

 In my last post I touched on how the leadership structure at my school had gone through significant changes. With this change, we have been fortunate enough to gain a Principal who embodies every characteristic of a Principal who promotes teacher leadership. It is a wonderful feeling to read about what has been researched as best practise in terms of leadership structure, and see that playing out at your School.

Quite often we feel bogged down by the amount of stress and pressure each and every day brings, but reading this paper made me feel a sense of pride, that my school is on the cusp of learning, and are looking at how we best do this to raise student achievement.
We are in the early stages, collecting voice from teachers, children, and the community, but the changes that I have seen that may seem insignificant to others, have been imperative to our school moving in the right direction, to best teach from the revised NZC.
For the first time we as teachers are being asked about how we can better our practise, our pedagogy, for the children we teach each and every day. Oh what a simple concept, however, in Education it has always been hierarchical and from the top down. How refreshing it is to be a part of a movement that sees best practise as a collaborative process.

That truly is how we will, as professionals, begin to view knowledge as a verb, and move from deficit thinking to agentic thinking.

Well that is the hope after all.....