Time and Place
I love that feeling of finishing up a meeting and walking away thinking... that was such a good use of time! In a word - buoyant!
Earlier in the year three of our Board were fortunate enough to attend the New Zealand Schools Trustees Association Conference in Rotorua. In the last session of the day I meet the Principal from Mangere East and we started chatting about our Bilingual classes and different suggestions for: professional development, networking, support agencies. Stephanie suggested I reach out to "MAC - The Maori Achievement Collaborative. This is a non-profit organisation, a professional learning and development pathway by principals for principals focussed on changing education outcomes for Maori students. In all: "Leaders helping leaders to become better leaders!". Tini, Maria and I meet with Phil Gordon for our initial 'getting started' meeting and I felt really inspired.
Phil, Maria, Tini and I shared our hopes and aspirations for Te Whanau Puawaitanga, and Maori (all the students) at NWS. We had some really positive korero across a range of topics and I reflected on Tini's comment as we finished up the Google Meet: NWS is in the right space, right time for the next part of the journey. I had a real sense of it all coming together!
Thank you Maria and Tini for your passion and commitment... the following feels appropriate.
Kia ora miss Harland! This is one of your NWS students! I'm from room 13 just to let you know. I love how you did a bit of a recap! This reminded me of when I went to CRICKET SESSION'S with international players! Maybe you could explain a bit of the text cause I had to google most of the things!
ReplyDelete-Zayd Ali!