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WAPA Conference 2010

16 September 2010
8.45am - 4.30pm

Kumeu Valley Estate, 972 Old North Road, Waimauku

Price Price $150.00

From Charmaine Munro, WAPA President:

Organisation is well under way for the 2010 WAPA Conference. Last year’s conference was a huge success and the committee received many calls thanking us for the day.

This year we hope that many more principals and leadership teams will join us, so diarise the date now.

2010 will be an interesting and challenging year so make sure that you look after each other. The theme for the conference this year is Staying Alive, with a focus on NZC not National Standards.

Our keynote speaker is curriculum whizz Lester Flockton (pictured), who will address the meaning and implications of some of the shifts and connections envisaged in the NZC.

We are also delighted to welcome Dianna Fuemana, outstanding actor and writer, as our afternoon speaker.

As usual there'll be plenty of chances to network and socialise with your peers and enjoy the cosy surroundings and delicious food at Kumeu Valley Estate (click on the link above for a map.)

Programme:

8.15 Registration opens
8.45 Welcome, introductions and sponsors
9.00 Lester Flockton
10.30 Morning tea
11.00 Lester Flockton
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Dianna Fuemana
3.30 Conference summary and prize draws followed by mix & mingle with drinks & nibbles
4.30 Conference end

We’ll see you on September 16th. Dress ‘as you like it’.

Charmaine

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”
(John Quincy Adams)

Outline of Lester Flockton's addresses:

"Curriculum, Assessment, and Reporting: disenthralling new orthodoxies in a quest for old sensibilities

Vulnerability to what Sir Ken Robinson calls ‘linear narratives’ that follow the ‘fast food’ paradigm has become wide-spread in curriculum, assessment, and reporting practices through the devices of official patronage of selected models. Many such models reflect system technocracy and its obsessions with ‘best evidence’. More than ever, school leaders need to practise and exercise increasingly high levels of professional ‘critical literacy’ so that their true moral purpose as educators of children and guardians of childhood is strengthened.

This presentation will support school leaders to sharpen their critical literacies and to see the virtues of sensibility in curriculum, assessment and reporting practices. I have been asked to not talk about National Standards – which thus frees me to focus on sensibilities!"

Lester Flockton
Lester Flockton is a graduate of Dunedin Teachers College and the University of Otago. He has extensive experience in New Zealand’s school system as a teacher, principal (5 schools...

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