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Gareth Long Education

http://garethlong.blogspot.com

Gareth is deeply involved in the total transformation of an entire education system - that of the Cayman Islands. Every aspect of the education service is being transformed simultaneously, from Early Years through to tertia and life long learning. It also includes the building of four state of the art 21st century "schools of the future" secondaryt and primary. Working very closely with international gurus such as Prof. Stephen Heppell, Prakash Nair, and some of the best education designers and architects on the workd, this is the only place in the world taking this total holistic approach. The blog, with links, follows Gareth in what he calls "one of the most exciting jobs in the world". An experienced school leader of four secondary schools, he specialised in "turning round" failig schools, mainly in the UK. He now acts as Strategic Development Advisor (Education) to the Minister of Education. This blog tracks the progress of the project, shares some good ideas as well as some others and asks a number of questions to be solved.

• Added on: Nov 4th, 2007
• Country: Cayman Islands
• Language: English

• Author: Gareth Long
• Listed in: Education eLearning
• Tags: cayman islands consultancy education systems schools of the future education - strategic advice school leadership

Recent Posts

• Learning around the world....

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 06:15 in skype, ict, webex, 21st century learning, fni, on line learning communities, efei, fielding nair intl

  The snow is still here and I am lucky to be working from home today... but the learning never stops. Taking a part in a webex to Australia with the very talented Annalise of the Fielding Nair Team, I ended up learning even more about their EFEI (Educ...

• Snow and Schools don\'t mix..

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 03:48 in weather conditions, headteacher, snow and schools

  I must admit that seeing the snow on Friday morning as I travelled to the station did remind me of days as a secondary headteacher. Staff will always allege that lots of things affect students, rain, strong wind, a full moon and, inevitably, snow be...

• Ice Sculpture

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 01:26 in sculpture, health and safety, ice carving, st pancras, cold temperature

  I often mention my love of sculpture in public places, but as I walked through St Pancras station yesterday, it was an ice sculpture that caught not only my eye, but that of many other people. Ice sculptures are not new by any means, but this was p...

• Sharing knowledge

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 00:45 in blogs, planning, knowlsey, 21st century learning environments, sharing good practice, 21st century technology, sharing facilities

  I often post photographs of the radical new Centres for Learning in Knowlsey and praise their really innovative designs, new approaches to FF&E and so on. Developing strategies for working in very new and innovative spaces does take time. Prepar...

• Mobile technology - why not?

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 22:45 in Mobile Phones, mobile technology, 21st century learning

  Funny really I think the story above is supposed to shock. It appeared recently in the national media - but what really made me question it is that so many schools do have already or want mobile devices for students - is it really news? Lots of scho...

• Agile spaces

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 22:43 in agility, student learning, ff and e, 21st century learning environments, supported office environments

  Transparency, light, colour, a range of agile working spaces with varying furniture solutions, grazing spaces, trees... All these found in one really attractive London office block I visited recently with a BCSE meeting.... it really is what we are t...

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