Leadership
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(If You) USEME-AI is 3 Years Old
Updates and reflections on (If You) USEME-AI after three years. Continue reading
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How Much Better Is “Better Enough?”
How can we decide what to take on, when schools are such busy places? Continue reading
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What’s the Problem Represented to be in UNESCO’s GenAI Guidance?
Applying WPR to UNESCO’s GenAI Guide. Continue reading
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Applying UNESCO’s GenAI guide to International Schools
UNESCO’s Guidance on GenAI provides useful frameworks & a starting point for international schools. Continue reading
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AIEd: We Are All Explorers
Quick post to share an article from the Summer 2023 issue of International School Magazine. Continue reading
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Is Our Culture Ready For The AI Change?
I recently presented on AI in Education at ECIS Leadership in Düsseldorf. Here is a screencast of the slides, recorded after the conference. Continue reading
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Three Years
A personal post, three years into Covid-19 in China, and three years in this role. Some highs, some lows, some “I don’t knows” and some “where to gos?”. I wish I’d written more of this down along the way, but… Continue reading
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The Buoyant Force: L2 Talk & FOEN Workshop
This was a great challenge during the Learning2 Conference last week in Nanjing. It was my first time at the conference and I was looking for an experience that would push me and provide something to think about. I presented… Continue reading
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Clear is Kind.
I love this post from Brené Brown, adapted from her book Dare to Lead: “Clear is Kind. Unclear is Unkind.” In leadership roles in spaces with many moving parts and challenges, I’ve learned that unnecessary ambiguity can lead to unnecessary… Continue reading
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Middle Leadership: The Sponge
A rough metaphor for leading from the middle, the Middle Leader Sponge often has to clean up spills and messes and absorb the stresses or worries of others so that they can go about their own job without passing on… Continue reading
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Wayfinders: Respecting The Journey
After a decade acting in coordination/leadership/HOD/coaching-type roles, I think one of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned – and want to encourage in others – is to respect the journey. This generates more questions in my head than most topics,… Continue reading
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Dodging Dolphins
Last week this gif was popular in the surf media: ……….o0O0o………. Continue reading
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Tankyuu (探 究): A Quest for Teacher Professional Inquiry
One of our big projects over the last few years has been to shift the focus of professional learning and goal setting from competence in the programmes and practices into genuine teacher inquiry. As a lot of foundational work had… Continue reading
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Book Recommendation: The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education
Title: The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education [SECOND EDITION] Editors: Mary Hayden – University of Bath, Jack Levy – George Mason University, Jeff Thompson – University of Bath Update Dec 2017: I fleshed this out into a full review for the Journal… Continue reading
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Professional Learning for International Educators
Eyes-deep in reading for the MA dissertation, with 200 links in my Paperpile and counting, concurrently thinking about future professional learning at school, and following the threads of developing the IMaGE of a school, I keep stumbling across articles, books… Continue reading
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