Words of visdom from NZ
Reading my feed of the Flux blog took me to an account of how schools in New Zealand are managed and governed and how autonomous their set up seems to be.
And just for those reading who think I should have written 'wisdom' in the title and made a mistake I decided to use my new word 'visdom'. This is a 'mash-up' word implying wisdom and vision together ... perhaps it will make a dictionary somewhere !
The huge quotation that I bring here is this:
When the elephant gets on the trampoline, everybody else has to jump at the same rhythm ... so don't let the elephant get on !! (the last bit is mine)
I wonder what, if anything, our primary schools heading for their version of BSF can make of this?
posted by Doug @ 09:39
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1 Comments:
It's an interesting quote, the last part that you added especially.
I'm just moving to a school that will be opening a new build in 2010. There's been no consultation as of yet with the teachers as to the type of building that they need to deliver an appropriate curriculum for the next generation.
I wonder if it's all going to be the wrong way round, the school and children's needs matching the building or the building matching the needs of the school.
Time is not yet up but I have my suspicions unfortunately!
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