Building capacity

As a whole staff we engaged in many hours of work last year, in the area of analysing data. Across writing and maths especially we are seeing school wide movement that shows how well our teachers know their students and conversations with students has meant that the students also know themselves. With the advent of BYOD this year for more of the school, we are starting to build capacity for staff and students to use online assessment tools. Such as exit ticket. Nearpod , google forms, voice thread, showme, khan academy and many more. This is allowing for instant assessment , which means learning to need, and even more powerfully... Learning to need and interest. This equals total engagement.

Delegating!

This year I am encountering many challenges around what I want to be able to be involved in and what I know I actually have time for. I prime example of this is ALiM- Since I qualified I have been very passionate and involved in math education- it is one of my leadership areas. However when the chance finally came up for me to engage with ALiM finally, it has happened at the same time as becoming a DP. Initially I felt very heartbroken almost, about not being able to engage in this. However I worked through in my own head and came to the conclusion that this was an area that I have overarching responsibility for and my role now is to enable achivement for ALL students in the school and not just to focus on the few we can put through ALiM. So I have had to delegate this task down to someone else within the school and I now know that this is the best way forward...I can help build capability in our teachers and be sure that that teacher is upskilling and filling a need that is part of my overarching action plan for the math outcomes for the strategic plan.

So I am learning ....slowly to delegate!!: