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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-23

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involver Friday Spotify playlist

Here’s what we’ve been listening to this week, as a Spotify playlist. I say ‘we’, but I mean me. Asher only listens to ‘dad’ music, from ‘the good old days’ (Dire Straits for example) :

http://open.spotify.com/user/scyne/playlist/0APdkgs7GA3NgBoe8iRivN


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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-22

  • RT @henryboxschool: Student Voice – thanks to all reps for last week's meeting, generated a lot of thoughtful ideas for our work this year! #

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Teaching Leaders conference

Spoke at a great conference last Saturday – for the most recent cohort of middle management on the Teaching Leaders course. The day focused on student voice, and there were inspiring presentations from Preston Manor in Wembley (on their behaviour panel) and Convent of Jesus and Mary in Harlesden (on their school council). Both were great and it was brilliant to see two Brent schools held as models of good practice (i live in Brent).

Also interesting was a keynote speech from John Bazalgette at The Grubb Insititute. Some very interesting research on the characteristics of schools who have effective student voice. You can find this below – very interesting, and thank you to John for letting us put it up. We’re off to meet with John next week to see if we can work together, which is also very exciting.

Engaging Student Voice – Report to GHFP July 09 – The Grubb Institute

Meanwhile, just finishing off this CPD module for ACT…

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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-21

  • Met with Head of Welbourne Primary today. Really looking forward to getting involved as a governor there. #
  • A new single malt to try and 1-0 to the Arsenal. A good Tuesday night so far. #
  • RT @Nobotic: School children could lead the way on sustainability: (Economic & Social Research Council) Britain's ch… http://bit.ly/1m2ee8 #
  • Birds on Lordship Rec pond are desperate for our bread in the mornings, it's literally been a bun fight. Goose nipped daughter's fingers :( #
  • Citizenship CPD module and blog posts on well-being, school council conference and training all need to get written today. Let's go! #
  • Free Citizenship event for young people in the North West http://bit.ly/4wfl4x #
  • RT @CommonPurpose Develop leadership skills in a prison, school or trading floor. Last bursary places for London course http://bit.ly/4hCAKf #
  • @Pswnio Auchentoshan that Chloe got me for my birthday. Very pleasant, but the football ended up 1-1 (equaliser at 90+3). in reply to Pswnio #
  • Have you used fun to change behaviour? WIn €2,500 Great ideas in these fun videos: http://bit.ly/cli7P #
  • Get a €2500 GRANT to CREATE a fun way to change behaviour, great for school councils: http://bit.ly/cli7P (last tweet was wrong) #

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The Fun Theory

I just came across this video (thanks to@hellostanley for pointing it out):

And it seems to me that this is exactly what school councils should be about: making things fun, but in a way that improves other things too.

There are two more excellent, funny videos on thefuntheory.com website as well as a competition.  If you can come up with an idea for how you could change people’s behaviour in a fun way, you could get a €2,500 (£2,250) grant to make it happen!

So watch the videos, get some ideas and get your entry in quick, it closes on the 14th November.

Let us know what you’re doing to make things fun.

I know this might be seen as me giving free advertising for VW, but when it’s a good idea, it’s a good idea! That’s the beauty of making things fun. You can’t argue with it, you just want to spread it around. Your school council needs to make use of this!