learning

Motivating Mondays: What will you be wearing to the NCSL Conference in June?

May 14, 2012

I attend the National College of School Leaders Annual Conference. Previously I had been as a delegate with the soul purpose to learn. Last year I considered hiring an exhibition stand to showcase BlueKiteCoach  but, after some great coaching from Helene Cooper and peculating some creativity, I came up with the idea of promoting myself [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Ding! How to have a great idea that will change you life

April 30, 2012

I love playing, do you? I learn best when I am having FUN, so what would happen if we saw every learning goal as an opportunity to PLAY? As a teacher you know this and see it working in your classrooms every day, so why not get the adults in your school playing too? Playing [...]

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Motivating Mondays: What question will you ask yourself today?

April 23, 2012

We learn so much by asking questions of ourselves and others. I ask questions for a living. I am paid to ask questions for the benefit of others. As a growing human being I also continually ask questions of myself. I am constantly amazed at the power that a well worded question has to unlock something that [...]

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Motivating Mondays: What is your worst work nightmare?

March 19, 2012

What is your worst work nightmare? How about standing in front of a room full of your peers? How about standing in front of a room full of your peers and your presentation does this… iPhone/iPad users click here to view the video. BlueKiteCoach supports leaders, like you, to feel confident and comfortable leading learning to [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Why I wear fancy dress to work

March 12, 2012

Since June 2011 I have been wearing fancy dress to work. I get a fair few wry smiles, but when I explain that on the back of my olive green flight suit I have printed “I help teachers fly with BlueKiteCoach” then the choice of costume makes a lot more sense. Most recently I have [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Top 5 Tips for Change

February 20, 2012

We need to change in order to stand still, but not everyone in our school believes or appreciates this. From our work with Early Heads the topic of change is particularly challenging as we know that even the small changes you try to make can be faced with resistance and cause you immense frustrations. We [...]

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Middle Leaders who are going places with BlueKiteCoach

January 6, 2012

I am looking forward to working again with an inspiring group of  leaders from the Henley Schools Partnership on the 31st January here. Between January and July 2011 I had the pleasure to work with eight of Henley’s very best leaders. Here is what they said about their experience: “Time to think about the bigger picture and to [...]

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Down with Boring Meetings!

December 30, 2011

I hate meetings where we are sent documents to read beforehand and then the documents are read out during the meeting. What is worse, when this is done and then no one has much to comment on them, what was the point? What would you do if you had made time to read it beforehand, [...]

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BlueKiteCoach Gets Top Billing

November 15, 2011

We were proud to be top of the bill in the Womens Business Clubs Newsletter this month with our new Eat That Frog Learning PlayTime on Prioritisation. This Learning PlayTime is part our brand new learning series designed to Grow Your Own Leaders launching in the Spring Term. Grow Your Own Leaders from BlueKiteCoach is a unique, [...]

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I’m learning with 40+ teachers and I haven’t even left my office!

November 2, 2011

I have just listened into a National College Live Online Seminar called The Impact of New Technology on Children’s Learning. It was well organised, attended my many more people than would have tuned up at a single venue and the speaker, David Mitchell from Heathfield Primary, was inspiring too! Above all David resonated enthusiasm about LEARNING and in a calm, [...]

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