Principled Principalship .. leading with belief.

https://www.fractuslearning.com/2016/12/08/characteristics-of-school-lead
ers/

Being principled simply means acting in accordance with morality and showing recognition of right and wrong. Your staff needs to trust you and know that you stand for something. Your words and actions should be aligned and demonstrate that you’re willing to adhere to your beliefs even when you’re uncomfortable. Being principled is one of the key pillars of being a great school leader.

Pushing limits ... rule breaking

So if we promote play for the first few years of schooling, are we crazy or listening to children , experts and research from across the world and acting on it !

The history of life on this planet is a history of rule breakers. Life started on the face of this planet as single-cell organisms, swimming for millions of years in the ocean, until one of those creatures decided, 'I'm going to do things differently today; today I would like to invent something called multicellularity.' And I'm sure it wasn't a popular decision at the time -- but somehow, it managed to do it. Then, land masses began to emerge from the surface of the oceans, and another creature thought, 'Hey, that looks like a really nice piece of real estate. I'd like to move there.' 'Are you crazy? Nothing can live out of water.' But life found a way. Once on land, they may have looked up into the sky and said, 'It would be nice to go to the clouds, I'm going to fly.' 'You can't break the law of gravity, there's no way you can fly.' And yet, nature has invented -- multiple and independent times -- ways to fly." Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado To solve old problems, study new species

Storytelling and Social Justice

http://www.ted.com/talks/sisonke_msimang_if_a_story_moves_you_act_on_it?


Storytellers can dream but we need a plan for Social Justice.