Category Archives: leadership

Teaching Schools – an outsider’s (possibly flawed) impression

Posted on March 13, 2014 by catrionao

Earlier this week I attended a BELMAS event in London about teaching schools. It’s been a while since I‘ve been at an event like this and I really enjoyed it.  Why did I go? We often look across the border … Continue reading →

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Wednesday seminars: Professional Update

Posted on November 30, 2013 by catrionao

Our SoE Wednesday Seminars are proving to be a really interesting and useful source of research provocations for me – you get a “taster” of some colleagues’ work and a robust discussion with others in attendance, all within an hour. … Continue reading →

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The Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change

Posted on November 6, 2013 by catrionao

I attended the launch of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change last night at Glasgow University.It was an enjoyable event and the focus on disadvantage and research to challenge and change it is  both admirable and immense. Interesting questions from the audience laid out … Continue reading →

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Transition and MLPS (again)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by catrionao

This issue has been rattling around my head for so long, it feels like part of the furniture. And furniture, like wallpaper can become so familiar it becomes invisible after a while. However, last night at our final MLPS session … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch at the eG8 summit

Posted on June 6, 2011 by catrionao

  Rupert Murdoch in the Edtech space Take a few minutes to get over the out-of touch descriptions of classrooms at the beginning – I don’t recognise the chalk & talk scenario he describes. He illustrates his vision with some … Continue reading →

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SELMAS: Donaldson and Me

Posted on May 25, 2011 by catrionao

I spent a very pleasant evening last night at the St George’s Centre for the annual SELMAS dinner.  The theme of the evening was Donaldson and Me and a succession of impressive speakers shared their personal responses to the Teaching Scotland’s … Continue reading →

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One today!

Posted on January 20, 2011 by catrionao

Happy birthday! it’s been exactly a year since this blog was born. As I said, it is a quiet wee blog, it doesn’t get huge traffic but it serves its purpose to be my sounding board and reflective journal for … Continue reading →

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The new paradigm

Posted on October 19, 2010 by catrionao

I really enjoyed listening to Sir Ken Robinson and following the fantastic animation of his talk from Julie Boyd’s blog  forwarded on to me by my good friend Hilary McColl – always a great source of useful links, thought and … Continue reading →

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