Last Few Chapters

What a wonderful start for our Leadership Team Blogging Experience. Reflecting on the book - Educators Guide to Catholic Identity has helped develop my understanding of the 'where to next' with the ESCI surveys.
 The chapter ' Befriending Difference' was moving and reinforced our need to look through the Catholic lenses of faith, love and hope. I found it especially important when it described the movement parents journey through as they "shift our vision of our sons and daughters from impaired versions of us to fulfilled versions of themselves." I think as teacher we can all learn so much from that quote - especially when we befriend students that don't fit the normal - 'our normal'.

The data and planning - starting from the right hand side and working backwards will be interesting to follow through when we receive the data from the survey. The organised way of presenting the inputs, Outputs and Outcomes make sense and will be interesting to work through it as a community. Including the parents, students and staff will be rewarding - I see visions of our final product being hung as we enter the school gates as a sign of our Catholic Identity.

Doing Theology - Using the different actions as a way of working through an issue or problem had similar characteristics as round table discussions and was interesting to see the same rigour being applied to issues of our faith and theology. Drawing on our knowledge of scripture and relevant theories also reinforced the importance of continued development in our own knowledge of our faith, scriptures and church teachings and traditions.