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04 Nov Future-focused strategic planning for schools: the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ need a ‘how’

Posted at 16:09h in 21st Century Education, 21st Century School Leadership, future-focused schools, Strategic Planning for Schools by Maxine Driscoll 0 Comments

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The most important skill in today’s world, individually and as an organisation, is focus. In a world of information overload and one distraction after another, it takes focus to achieve anything valuable. Just like individuals, schools have all sorts of different priorities being brought to...

29 Jan 5 LEADERSHIP MISTAKES PRINCIPALS SHOULD AVOID

Posted at 20:31h in Educational Leadership, Strategic Planning for Schools, Uncategorized by Maxine Driscoll 0 Comments

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Late January is an exciting time for students, teachers and school leaders downunder. Almost 4 million Australian students will be returning to school for the start of the 2018 academic year. I've been lucky to be invited as a keynote speaker to inspire teachers and school...

28 Nov What to include in your next school strategic plan

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Steering schools forward in the 21st Century is a challenging task! Many schools are still locked into traditional approaches and methods based on the industrial revolution, however, every child currently at school is a digital native, born after the advent of the internet and at...

24 Nov Seven Essential Tips for Strategic Planning in Schools

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Use strategic thinking, futures thinking and systems thinking to front load your planning and go beyond your school’s current reality. You don’t want to create the school you already have, you want to introduce innovations to meet the changing needs of the 21st Century...

17 Oct Strategic Planning or Strategic Thinking?

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“Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education are likely to take place outside traditional institutions.” (Knowledge Works, 2008). How will we prepare our students to face and solve the “social, economic, health and climate challenges of the next several decades” (Knowledge Works,...