Michael Pohl

Michael challenged us to think about what we are doing and to in a sense be able to justify what we are doing! So why teach thinking.....yes that was an excellent springboard as we discussed what we do at North and more importantly need to be doing at North. 

Neil touches on this in his reflections. For me it is about getting us all paddling the same waka  -so we need to be "talking the same talk!". We have chosen the Hats as a major thinking tool for our school...but then he challenged us re our level of expertise and very quickly it became apparent that our expertise is some what lacking...so this will need to be a strong focus for us as we implement "Strive!