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My brain is changing. I think I have moved through some kind of invisible barrier where I am finally starting to think really strategically about everything I do in and around education. It is not that my thoughts in the past have not been strategic; they have. I have put in place strategies to achieve outcomes and goals and have, for the most part, been pretty succesful. But this is different. I feel a bit like Neo when he first sees the Matrix code; I am really starting to see how things fit together.
This vision is not something I have come to by sitting in a cave thinking, it is undoubtedly due to the wonderful people I choose to keep real or virtual company with. I am lucky to stand on the shoulders of so many giants that I can now see the hopefully not so distant horizon. I know where I am going and I know how to get there thanks to them.
So, I would like to name some of those giants in no particular order and to thank them for everything I have learned from them;
Darren Mead; science teacher at CLV
Gwyn ap Hari; founder of realsmart
Simon Brown; Google genius
Abi Palmer; French teacher at CLV
Scott Clark; history teacher at St Robert of Newminster
Mark Lovatt; Deputy Head, CLV
Wendy Heslop; Head of CLV
Ewan McIntosh; NoTosh
Tom Barrett; NoTosh
Jamie Portman; AHT Campsmount
Martin Said; musician
Jon Bird; AHT CLV
Peter Corkill; Principal JMSS
Derek Wise; Headteacher CLV
Thank you
