We are good but we can be great.
One of the pre-eminent books about creating a great organisation is Jim Collins’ Good to Great.
GOOD TO GREAT: This book addresses a single question: can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five-year research project co ...
Parents know the danger of saying one thing and doing another and being caught out by their children.
We know you lose integrity and authority if you are found to be even vaguely hypocritical, allowing a gap between what you preach and what you do.
So why is it that Australian educ ...
The Principal's Address at today's Assembly to farewell the founding Chair of St Columba Anglican School, the Rev. Canon Dr John Barrett OAM, spoke to the heartfelt appreciation of an entire school community, and of generations of students who have been educated at SCAS over the past 17 ...
In a time when partisanship, us vs them, and wedge politics seems to be the flavour of the year in politics and education, it is reassuring to read something that eschews this approach and talks about schools in a language that we can all agree on - transforming schools so that our stude ...
I have written before about the role of GRIT in students achieving success at school and after leaving school. For those who are new to reading my stuff, grit is defined as “passion and perseverance for very long-term goals”. Research tells us that grit has a more significant correlatio ...
That is not a good enough reason to keep doing it today (and tomorrow)!
Dysfunction (Definition)
1 : impaired or abnormal functioning
2 : abnormal or unhealthy interpersonal behavior or interaction within a group.
Sometimes something that has worked to the benefit of an organisat ...
I remember when St Columba’s exceptional first Higher School Certificate results were credited to a school in the Blue Mountains.
We were new, unknown and easily dismissed. How things have changed.
This statement is now at the h ...
I watched this video the other day...
https://youtu.be/GVG4wgCqeEQ
Nothing I saw and heard was news to me but, I still loved it because it reinforced my belief that real success for our students is not preordained or gifted by money, natural talent or social position. It is about ...
“Children want and need boundaries. They cannot ask questions about how far it is to go. They depend on parents to set the parameters and keep them safe. When children don't have boundaries, they become stressed. And this is the reason why so many children are stressed: They have no real ...
As a school principal I never get bored with my job. Every day is different when you are in some way responsible for over 1200 people ranging in age from six weeks to sixty years.
If you have ever wondered what a school principal actually does, particularly one who is no longer able t ...
