Leadership
What is leadership?
"What you permit you promote, what you allow you encourage and what you condone you own." (Anonymous) "Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them reach their potential. It's about...
Leadership
School leadership ~ a practical guide
Welcome to your School Leadership essentials. This page is designed to guide you as a school leader through the key aspects of effective leadership using resources from the InThinking School Leadership...
Leadership
Introduction
This section of the website encourages you to think critically about the nature of leadership: your own leadership and the collective leadership capacity within a school. We explore the various styles...
Mission & Vision
Well being policy
A well-being policy is a powerful asset for any school, providing a structured commitment to nurturing a positive, supportive environment for students, staff, and the wider school community. This page...
Mission & Vision
PS: Well-being and the secrets of a long life
This page is not in essence a pedagogical one. However, the arguments presented in it can be used to refocus what we are doing in schools and provides confirmation of the importance of addressing wellbeing...
Mission & Vision
Mental Health & Well-Being
Addressing student well-being and their mental health is critical to ensuring they are prepared and ready to learn. School leaders have a duty of care for both students and staff. Their well-being should...
Mission & Vision
Well-being and student leadership
Our professional inquiry: What is the connection between ‘well-being’ and ‘student leadership?’ | How do we empower our students so that they see that their voices and intellects matter? “The development...
Mission & Vision
Well-being and human flourishing
Wellbeing is connected with people thriving and flourishing. In the world of education the roots of education as a nurturing in wellbeing go back to Aristotle. More recently talk of human flourishing...
Mission & Vision
Wellbeing: How well do you know your children - individually?
Do you know the socio-emotional needs of your students? How do we know whether we are meeting the social and emotional needs of our students? How do you know and measure students' well-being? Warning:...
Mission & Vision
Wellbeing and our teaching
Wellbeing impacts everything that happens to a student, so it is important that we consciously think about how we teach and how it impacts the wellbeing of our students. You may like to use the following...