It's not about adding new ideas and flavors of the month on to current practice. Two words need to go hand in hand. Embedding and Abandonment. What are we going to let go of to embed future focused initiatives to improve student outcomes for all? Developing a shared vision, collective purpose and synthesizing current global thinking can help to set the stage. The major topics under the current educational microscope are how do we develop student learning capacity in conjunction to teaching content. Thinking skills, learner dispositions (key competencies) and conceptualizing curriculum in meaningful and manageable ways is quiet some task. The following link is a draft attempt in doing so in 2005. The big ideas reside under I, We, It and Make a difference headings. The matrix has proven to be a helpful way of providing a framework in which each piece has been further unpacked and embedded in practice. How important is the development of such a framework? How influential ha it been in the strategic direction? What would have happened without such a structure? When is structure helpful/ unhelpful? All questions I like to continue to ponder.
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