Lead Like a Pirate - Blog Hop

In Term 3 the Blog Hop begins!

This is part of our collaborative book study of Lead Like a Pirate, written by Shelley Burgess and Beth Houf.

Each week/fortnight we will supply a prompt for you to reflect on. You will post your reflection on your blog and share the link.

The list of shared links will be available for all who are participating in the blog hop for this topic so that you can read and comment on what others have to say about the topic.

Don't have a blog? Don't worry! We will share a help sheet with you so that you can create a blog and get started.

Submit this form if you want to hear more about this awesome opportunity. Don't hold back - you do not have to participate in every prompt - you can just get connected and read others posts and comment on them - this is a great way to get started. You don't have to write a post although we are sure once you get started you will see the benefits.

Lead like a Pirate Blog Hop

School Leaders - encourage other leaders in your schools to join in as well - we have so much to learn from each other!

Quadblogging ...

I have been reading about Quadblogging and listening to David Mitchell (@DeputyMitchell) - Deputy Headteacher and Founder of Quadblogging.

Quadblogging - in a nutshell is when four classes from anywhere around the world work together to read and respond to each others blogs. It is a way of increasing engagement on blogs - a blog without an audience doesn't work. It is vital that blogs have an audience - and when they have an authentic audience it is quite astounding the difference it makes.

I have been wondering about how we can use the quadblogging idea with our colleagues in order to get more traffic on our blogs but more so to create professional dialogue with our colleagues in order to challenge our thinking.

                           

Watch this youtube clip and change Class 1 to Principal 1 and Class 2 to Principal 2 etc...

This is one way of increasing traffic on our blogs, it will create an authentic audience and also will create professional dialogue - all I need now is a group of colleagues to trial this. Fast Forward to those principals or senior leaders that put their names down for Blogging PD at the PD conference held at Lincoln in June.

Those who have committed to the PD have set up their blogs and finally the trial is going to start this week and will run for five weeks - people won't have to blog each week (they can if they want to though) but will have a responsibility to check in on whoever is the focus blog for the week and make a comment. 

I really hope we all find this useful...and not just another thing we have to do!