Trafford Digital Leaders Are Go!

May 01
2010

I’m delighted to say that the Trafford Digital Leaders are go.  Staff from Trafford College, Stretford High School, Lostock College, Vital & Toshiba were present to celebrate the appointment of 12 Digital Leaders along with their parents.   Here’s a full write-up of our launch evening.

Our new Digital Leaders will be updating our blog soon.

Digital Leaders – The Trafford Story So Far

Mar 15
2010

This post is a bit of a diary / mind-empty on my progress so far in launching a Digital Leaders programme in our school.  This is also posted on my blog.

Poster

As per my previous postKristian Still asked me to become involved in developing the Digital Leaders idea into my school and others in collaboration with Vital.  

A strange set of coincidences has blossomed this project into something greater than I could have imagined already.  The open letter in my previous post to ICT suppliers received a positive reply from Len Danielsat Toshiba.  I met with Len and Bob Harrison, Educational Advisor to Toshiba to discuss the project.  The coincidences started here as Bob is also School Governor for Lostock College, the school we will potentially be merging with in September.  He had also seen Kristian and his Digital Leaders present at the SSAT Conference last year so was aware of the programme and their considerable success. Read the rest of this entry »

Introducing Trafford Digital Leaders

Mar 12
2010

Hello, we are Stretford High School in North Trafford, Manchester.  We are starting a Digital Leader project in collaboration with our partner school Lostock College.

Applications for our posts are flooding in, and the collaborations between schools, Toshiba & our local 14-19 provider Trafford College are looking exciting.

Leadership, teachers, students and parents are all excited by the possibilities that await.