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on 27, Sep, 2011
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Anne Tolley
Well this whole blog thing has been a bit slow. Nearly everyone was keen, some even promised to blog weekly and possibly more often. But with the exception of Observer's sharp blogs the intentions of 'nearly everyone' didn't quite make the reality. Then came the day that the boss instructed- "there WILL be a blog every week - it's a roster- if you are responsible for facilitating the advisory team meeting on Monday - you are responsible for the blog that week". The result would suggest we either don't have meetings on Mondays ... or don't follow instructions too well?
So here I am, thinking we either take the blog off the website or someone takes responsibility. I don't have anyone to delegate to ... and suspect disabling the blog would have been a "no-can-do" from the boss, which means I have to think of some regular PPTA or education fodder that has a little bit of interest/use.
I've started following, on Twitter(!), Dave Armstrong @malosilima, a co-writer of Mr Gormsby - and that got me thinking about Mr Gormsby - Gormsby occasionally referred to PPTA National Office so that's my fodder.
Posted by: Observer
on 14, Jul, 2010
The NZ School Trustees Association has been celebrating 21 years of its existence by claiming credit for other peoples’ work. Apparently, it is entirely responsible for progress made in educational achievement in New Zealand schools.
I don’t wish to denigrate individual boards of trustees who give up many hours of their own time to do what department of education officials once received a salary for doing, but it stretches credibility to imagine that student achievement is influenced in any significant way by governance arrangements.
