What Visitors Notice About My School
Just recently a group of educators from New Zealand, lead by Sue Ashworth and Mandy Dempsey spent the day with us. They sent this letter to us afterwards: (reproduced here with permission). Click here to download letter, or read on... Let me quote some bits of it: What a lovely thing to say! ------ They quote an unofficial school motto "Do, then think!": This is why our school has changed so much since I joined 8 years ago. We take action NOW, and if it gets messy, it gets messy. We are not living in an age when you can afford to pause. We pause and reflect AFTER the fact, and make tactical corrections. No time for caution! ------ I was delighted to read this: Exactly! Like I wrote about recently: It's not about the technology. ------ ------ Yes this is very much a brag blog post, but not about me, about my school. Come and see - we'd love to have you visit. ------ Let me finish with this tweet from Chris Betcher after he visited with a colleague last Friday:
That's why I stay in my job and have no intention of leaving!
Yes! Because it is all about the students! The whole point of visiting my school is to talk to the students - see them in the process of learning.