Seasons of Change

Welcome to my first post on the way education has been changing and the responses that need to be made to meet those changes.

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Have you considered in your life, how there are times when you know that there are changes are happening in your life? The season might be one of abundance or it might be one of hardship and turmoil. Each has its season in our lives and all of us will experience the cycle of these seasons as we walk through life.

I am aware that there is a new season of change emerging in our school. It has been developing and slowly emerging, in a spring - like way, blossoming and budding, this new season of change. Little seed thoughts have been taking a hold. New growth of direction is budding out. It has been a time of new beginnings and possiblities.

The new direction has been the use of technology within our school community. The challenge for many of us, within our school is will we participate in this new season? The choice is ours to make.

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