Another incredibly busy weekend at ISHCMC with us hosting the awesome Stingrays Invitational event. ISHCMC won very convincingly with an outstanding team effort. It was a wonderful two days of swimming involving 450 swimmers that tested our excellent administration and organization of such large events; our community spirit; and the growing competitiveness and desire of our students. Congratulations to Heather and her parents committee lead by Kellie Wheeler. Huge thanks to all of you who helped as scorers, time keepers, marshals and announcers; without such an efficient team the meet would not run so effectively. Please talk to the students in your homeroom tomorrow and congratulate the swimmers for their effort and achievement.
On Thursday and Friday last week, I attended the Regional Heads Conference in Singapore. The first day focused on the Cognita Way, which focuses on pedagogy, learning and growth. The key substance for the Cognita Way links very nicely with our mission and values. The reason for developing the Cognita Way is to create a common understanding of what a Cognita School offers educationally. The new CEO, Chris Jansen is totally committed to the idea that within a safe learning environment our priority is education and when we get that right everything else follows naturally. He sees the Cognita Way as the important "why" of what we are doing as a Cogniat School. He is very committed to changing education so it prepares students for the challenges of the 21st century.
Below is the model that has been created across all of the Cognita regions and now SLTA's will be populating through their Strategic Development Plans. But what is really missing is moving the model away from being 6 square boxes. This might be useful for collecting information but gives the wrong impression, as Chris Jansen wants this model to encourage schools to move forward and provide a 21st century education for their students.
Below is the model that has been created across all of the Cognita regions. SLTA will be populating through their Strategic Development Plan and Goals. What is really missing is moving the model away from being 6 square boxes. This might be useful for collecting information but gives the wrong impression, as Chris Jansen wants this model to encourage schools to move forward and provide a 21st century education for their students.
Purpose
Inspiring
and empowering children within a safe environment to achieve more than they believed
possible
The
ingredients of a Cognita education
Character
Academic
Global
Enrichment
Below is the model that has been created across all of the Cognita regions. SLTA will be populating through their Strategic Development Plan and Goals. What is really missing is moving the model away from being 6 square boxes. This might be useful for collecting information but gives the wrong impression, as Chris Jansen wants this model to encourage schools to move forward and provide a 21st century education for their students. The best that has created so far is below, but I know that many of you are very creative thinkers and could design something better yourselves or with your students. Any ideas or designs very welcome as I'd hate to have 6 square boxes represent our way of educating.
Have a good evening,
Yours
Adrian
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