I haven't been on my blog for a while - not since completing my DFI last year. My professional learning in 2019 was turbocharged & now in these troubled times of rahui during Covid-19 my newly acquired skills have come to the fore. This week alone I have had online meetings with groups of principal colleagues, I've sat in on teachers having a google meet with their classes to set up learning for the day & I've also arranged a social session with teacher colleagues so that we can connect. This is stuff that seems so simple to me now. I've also seen wonderful educators step up to share, collaborate & mentor others to improve their capability to deliver online learning. It certainly makes me appreciate being in a collaborative profession that puts the well-being of it's learners at the heart of the matter. However, there is a dark side to this too. More than ever, equity issues are revealing themselves. Schools have students with no ac...