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LeadersLearn Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf about 9 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by benwitheford and 17 others
sanjayguptaCNN "the two most important days in your life. the day you are born, and the day you figure out why" -- mark twain. about 24 hours ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry Retweeted by benwitheford and 2688 others
@markherring where are the hills 4:12 PM May 24th via TweetDeck in reply to markherring
Private schools increase class sizes... point well made. blog.labour.org.nz/2012/05/23/bre… 2:37 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core via @Telegraph soc.li/61CLIik 12:03 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
Startled driver says get a load of this... - only in Auckland... nzh.tw/10808018 via @nzherald 11:52 AM May 23rd via Tweet Button
New Zealand is a top-performing OECD country in reading literacy, with the average student scoring 521 out of 600 oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/new-… 1:38 AM May 23rd via TweetDeck
patrickgowernz Andrew Little "served" Crusher Collins defamation papers - Private Investigator said: "There's no fries with that, but you've been served". 2:43 PM May 21st via web Retweeted by benwitheford and 5 others
Possibilities??? TeachBoost: A Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Development Tool hackeducation.com/2012/05/14/tea… via @hackeducation 11:53 AM May 21st via Tweet Button
Marama Pukeokahu School: We Need a New Principal ... - tinyurl.com/75vajyd Enjoy ... Please RT! 1:01 PM May 20th via Tweet Button Retweeted by benwitheford and 7 others
@dpfdpf disconnect between goal of rasing achievement and increasing class sizes. 3:03 PM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to dpfdpf
stephen_tpk @hekiaparata I didn't have computers until I went to intermediate school. Should we use your #inmyday logic here also? 5:06 PM May 15th via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by benwitheford
john_holley Change in teacher/student ratios has the effect of moving funding from primary to intermediate/sec schools. So teacher cuts in Primary! 2:36 PM May 15th via Twitter for iPad Retweeted by benwitheford and 1 other
ivankaz Not happy about school class sizes going up!The Government is working on performance pay for teachers.School is suppose to be about our kids 3:08 PM May 15th via web Retweeted by benwitheford and 2 others
@paulbrislen you looking for logic in how these goals are arrived at. We also want to go from 4/5 chn succeeding to 5/5 while nice not real 5:01 PM May 15th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to paulbrislen
Class sizes on the rise being sold as easier for schools just a cost saving measure wrong move #budget2012 national.org.nz/Article.aspx?a… 1:26 PM May 15th via Twitter for iPhone
Lunch @ new Dunedin stadium #interfacexpo2012 nice twitter.com/benwitheford/s… 7:55 PM May 14th via Twitter for iPhone
@timl27 it's like telecom they cover 97% of where nzders work 5:18 PM May 14th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to timl27
@timl27 meant to be about iPad management but actually an iPad sales pitch. #interfacexpo2012 4:00 PM May 14th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to timl27
@timl27 don't you hate going to a workshop called one thing but being completely different in reality #interfacexpo2012 3:57 PM May 14th via Twitter for iPhone