__ LIPS – Leading in Public Schools

Here we are at the end of another year.  In NSW the year has been an eventful one as the pressure has mounted on government to deliver services in a massively constraine resource environment.  Coupled with the global economic credit crisis, the huge shift in opinion in the US which has seen the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency sends a signal that we are on the verge of some new ages in thinking.  Maybe it is a time where we will need to develop and ability to rapidly ‘zoom’ between a close view and a long view.  We need now, more than ever before, the ability to ‘think globally, act locally.’ That is, we need to be able to appreciate both the bigger picture context  and then micro actions which can create a difference at the local level. Read the rest of this entry »