4. Developing support and sustaining the momentum

The project has allowed us to explore our flexible side and provide an opportunity to discuss how this will influence the way work. We are still working towards this and it will be ongoing in 2010. Some of the main points include:

• Apply for a Bright Ideas Faculty Project 2010 to implement Mentoring Program


• Develop an online site for information diffusion ensuring it based on active behaviour rather than information


• Develop and implement workshops to assist with Business and Planning (This is being trialled over the next few weeks.


• Implement a range of communication strategies with HT; use of Sharepoint, SMS rather than email. Incorporate opportunities for discussion in Faculty Meetings rather than information giving and receiving.

Managing the Current to the Desired State

At this stage of the project we needed to determine what is the desired state?

WE had a meeting on 12th November 2009 to discuss this very important statement. A group of head teachers from the Faculty came to discuss ho we might be able to achieve this. Today we were fortunate to have Jenni Harding, SWSI Manager Workforce Capability and Development come along and speak with us about the Institute Induction Project. Part of our project was about developing and implementing an Induction package for the Faculty. This had been developed as a written package and uploaded into Moodle. A head teacher had started with us from Sydney Institute and gave feedback on how it could be improved. Today we wanted to make sure we were not duplicating any of the resources from the Institute Project. We were able to provide some useful feedback and discuss how our Induction Package may sit with the Institute one.

We spent the next hour discussing how we might be able to determine what is the desired state. We reviwed Moodle, Wiki and Sharepoint to discuss which system may be used. It was generally felt that Sharepoint should be the main platform and anything developed could come of this site. We are still exploring this as to the best way to communicate and manage information and how to incoporate what the desired bahaviour might be. Final discussion was to map the processes a HT needs to implement and what mechanisms could best support this.