I have a couple of days to cover at this point. Friday was a very full day of conference sessions from 0800 to around 5. They don't even schedule a lunch break - you just skip a session and either pick up your prepaid boxed lunch, or go outside for a meal. As is always the case with these conferences, sessions were of varying quality, and I am more sure than ever that four "15 minute" presentations and a discussion in an 80 minute session does little credit to ...

Wednesday afternoon began with collecting a boxed lunch and boarding buses for school visits, as part of the Plenum experience. The Plenum is the gathering of accredited represeantatives of constituent organisations. We are only an affiliate, so the role is as an observer really. The organisers had set up visits to a number of schools, at each of which there was an intern doing the Ritchie program. With a requirement for principal certification in the States suc...

I thought I'd use the blog to capture a few of my reflections on this trip to the UCEA Conference in Denver and then on to a visit with the Toronto Diocesan Catholic School Board, with side trip to London to catch up with family. As I look back on it, I think I passed the flight in a kind of twilight zone - just kind of switched off and went with it. Travelling alone, you don't tend to get engaged in coversation, so the world is circumscribed by your seat, your ...