Updates+and+Reflections

=Updates:=

28 June 2012 (William)
We are currently in the process of receiving feedback from the staff about the survey. We hope to create 2 more surveys for the staff and students during the holidays.

22 June 2012 (William)
We went to the State Library of NSW to write up our first draft for the survey. I hope to have a final copy ready by the end of week 10 so we can send it out to our friends over the holidays. We suggest having either week 1 or week 2 of term 3 as the due date for the survey.

21 June 2012 (William)
During sport (Chess), Ben, Gabriel and I started planning for the content for our survey. This would be the starting point for our survey which we will be using to audit the leadership teams at different schools. After we have completed a draft, we will seek the input of our teacher mentors we will be changing it so that it is applicable to use for the students and teachers at DLSA. We hope to meet up later this week to complete a draft.

20 June 2012 (Ben)
We attended the Young Leader's Leadership Day at Patrician Brothers, Fairfield. We managed to take a lot away from it including self-work, ways to communicate, qualities of leaders and ways to problem-solve. In our assigned groups, we also managed to receive some ideas from other schools regarding leadership structure and social justice.

I got the chance to talk to Wakeley's leadership team about their social networking. Unfortunately, it was their sport's captains present and neither their Leader of Pedagogy nor Leadership Teacher were present, but they have said they are more than willing to set up a meeting soon in which we could establish connections with their leadership team.

19 June 2012 (William)
We will be attending a leadership day along with Mr Long and other students at Patrician Brothers Fairfield. There, we hope to make some connections (social network) with other schools so that they will be able to help us in our DTPL.

Also, I found the website for the event I went to last year. It is called the 'CRC Youth Leaders Day' and was help in on 21st September 2011. I attended the 'Pathways to Leadership' workshop where Ashcroft High School presented their leadership model which was featured on the television channel ABC.

Here is the website for further information: CRC Youth Leaders Day

Quotes: //"Ashcroft High School aims to have 50% of students involved in leadership programs.Induction begins from year 9 and continues into the senior schooling years. Thisworkshop demonstrated a different model for developing school leaders and a schoolrepresentative body. Selection into the Student Leadership Council (SLC) consists ofan application process. The SLC body is divided into portfolios and includes globalconnections, healthy schools and quality teaching."//

8 June 2012 (William)
It's been a busy week and a busier week to come. Before the next meeting we hope to have drafts for the surveys ready. This will hopefully tie in with possible visits ("after school tea") or video conferences (skype calls) with others schools by the end of this term or early next term. I was also thinking of presenting to the staff what we have been doing in recent times just. This i hope will be in the latter stages of our process.

=Reflections:=

**Meeting 9 (William)**

 * term 3 (26 June 2012)
 * Ms Conlan, Ms Coorey, Ms Davis, Anthony, Ben, William
 * @ seminar room in library
 * discussed Harmony Day proceedings (song and poster competition)
 * looked at survey and will edit it so that it will be shorter and more concise
 * decided to send our surveys to teachers for feedback via Ms Coorey

**Meeting 8 (Gabriel)**

 * term 2 (24 June 2012)
 * Ben, Gabriel, William
 * @ State Library
 * wrote up a draft for the questions on survey and put them onto Google Forms (link: DRAFT survey)
 * researched different leadership structures and found a research report about leadership in schools

Meeting 7 (William)

 * term 2 (4 June 2012)
 * Mrs Lombardo, students
 * @ seminar room in library
 * finalised other groups (student involvement & school culture/environment)
 * discussed plans for next meetings e.g. Skype call in week 9/10

Meeting 6 (William)

 * term 2 (31 May 2012)
 * Mrs Lombardo, Ms Conlan, Ms Coorey, William, Ben, Gabriel
 * @ library (area behind projector screen)
 * discussed our thoughts on the role of leadership in different schools and the steps we should first take in our current phase (ideation)
 * brainstorming ways of social networking with other schools e.g. connecting with St Mary Mackillop, Wakeley.

Meeting 5 (William)

 * term 2 (29 May 2012)
 * Mrs Lombardo, Ms Xafellis, students
 * @ library (main area infront of projector screen)
 * discussed and wrote on paper what is NOT leadership, student involvement and school culture & environment
 * explanation of how to use wikispaces

Meeting 4 (William)

 * term 2
 * Mrs Lombardo, students
 * @ meeting room inside staff room
 * wrote on post-it notes what changes we wanted at the school
 * placed post-it notes on the white board into categories
 * collated information
 * created wikispaces website and updated it with information from meeting

Meeting 3 (William)

 * term 2
 * Mrs Lombardo, Karina, students
 * @ meeting room inside staff room
 * explained what the "design thinking" process is to the students.
 * planned out what would happen next meeting.

Meeting 2 (William)

 * term 1
 * Mrs Lombardo, Ms Conlan, Karina, Ben, William, Bruno, Sizon, Anthony Lima, Adib Mafoud, Chris Bai etc.
 * @ seminar room in library
 * We updated the students with what we discussed at the last meeting
 * We decided to invite all the LYLs, yr 11 class represenatives and other interested students to help us in the process namely "design and thinking process."

Meeting 1 (William)
> "Vision for Learning" and how it interweaves with what we have discussed in this meeting.
 * term 1
 * Mrs Lombardo, Ms Conlan, Ben, William
 * @ seminar room in library
 * Ben and myself discussed what we though were issues in the school and possible solutions
 * Mrs Lombardo explained to us how she is working with teachers, students and parents in rewriting the school's
 * Introduction of "design and thinking" process.
 * We decided to invite other students and get them up to date with what we've discussed.

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