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PB4L Conference 2107 - notes day 1

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Louise Upston - Assoc Min of Ed. 'social investment' - to help work with some of the kids in 'your community'. Dr. George Sugai - keynote communities of practise/communities of learning - ensure substantive, demonstrate significant outcomes, evidence Sustainability - changes in govt policy  - documenting what works and how other things can be merged within/integrate. Doubling Down on PBIS: Increasing Our Precision and Implementation on Prevention and Behavioural Sciences Whenever a large societal or community swing occurs, associated shifts in behaviour norms and acceptability also can be experienced. The purpose of this presentation is to describe how our knowledge and experience with positive behavioural interventions and supports (PBIS) could be considered as an immediate, important, and effective preventive response when dramatic shifts in school and classroom climate are being experienced. We suggest that educators must “double down” now on their...

whānau blog commenting

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Strengthening learning partnerships with whānau is a priority for us at Park Estate.  We want to share our learning with our families and ensure our students have an audience for their learning.  I created this video using Tellagami and iMovie.  Tellagami is an app I have on my iPhone.  I took a photos of my computer screen with my phone, drew on them with the photo editor and used these for the backgrounds.  It would have been good to have used screenshots instead for better quality. It's currently on a page in our school website I'm not sure if it's had any views from our families.  We can share this whānau meetings to let them know it's there, ask if there were any other videos we could create and share for their interest/use etc.  It would be good to have this recorded in other languages our families use also.

Papakura Principals Conference Sept 2017

DAY 1 w Mary Anne Murphy https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4sUPvwmj7UCVTNaUlBIMW5HUzA what is our natural way of being - and considering what we need to put more time into Considering Leadership team: Patterns: both more 'feelers' rather than 'thinker' thinkers otherwise,. Strengths: good balance in leadership team - coverage, difference, complimentary. Gaps: Thinker (Anna) Insights: delivery of messages from us both - how message is delivered. 'spun negative' - middle column, Passive....Assertive How might I be 'accidentally diminishing - 'idea guy' >evaluate, streamlining, organising, clarity, listen to others The standard you walk past is the standard you accept accountability conversations a la Bill Rogers (i.e. description of reality ...open to theory of action Enlisting - below the line > one liners - public. Raise attention to below line behaviours, don't walk past. Redirection (private) Calling it (priv...