Over-communicate vision
OK, so the Internet is down in school, which means I've had to do a lot of independent reading and talk to other people. There's a lesson in there somewhere, probably another LinkedIn post later on...
What we were doing was basically thinking about what went well this year. Coming back to the idea of what good teaching and learning looked like in the school. The problem is, the really good stuff only exists in silos. People are trying things to make sure their children are being creative, promoting critical thinking and collaboration etc- so there's some really exciting stuff going on. But it's always just here and there.
I guess that's because the school lacks an overall vision. An overall idea of what we're trying to achieve every day to prepare the children for the future. It means that they might well build up a whole variety of skills in one class, but they go to the next class and it feasibly just resets or disappears from them.
So we need to be incredibly explicit with what our vision is. We need to over-communicate that. We need to always be coming back to that with staff, saying -Right! We're doing this because this is where we're going, heres why or we're putting this in because this is what we're trying to achieve... That can be with the current curriculum; we can try and do these interesting things simultaneously. Be that changing the type of pedagogy for approaching different lessons at different times or embedding in AI or even just going for a walk in the woods- everything because the children thst leave our school leave with this.....But we cannot do it in silos, not individually. From day 1 we are saying, right? When you work here, this is what we are trying to achieve and this is what we're trying to do every day and here's how it will help you and make you amazing. And were saying the kids that come here, this is what they're going to take away to be prepared for the future.
Vision, vision, vision....
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