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Necropolis Gully

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  Necropolis Gully Ancient Fertility  The only sound in the deep quiet of the crevice was the crunch of my boots on the debris-strewn ground. Towering stone walls, draped in vibrant green moss , rose on either side, making me feel like an intruder in a forgotten tomb . My matte-black suit , a product of a future this place could never have imagined, felt profane against the ancient rock . Then I saw it: a weathered, silent figure standing in the path. It was a statue of a woman , carved from the same stone as the gully but shaped with clear intent. Moss crept up its base and clung to its form like a second skin. This impossible artifact, an architectural anomaly in this raw, natural fissure , stopped me. My steady, determined posture belied the storm of questions raging in my mind. The statue stared forward with blank, unseeing eyes, a silent witness to a history I had just stumbled into. My mission was to find my crew, but this place, this silent, stone woman , was a new, un...

Challenging Imperatives of school leadership

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‘What are the challenging  imperatives of school leadership and what does international literature offer to the task of developing 21st century school leaders in Australian Schools?’ Theme: Organisational Culture and Disruptive Technology. The line of discussion: Leadership and Disruption - School preparing students to be work ready to a changed work future: The scope of discussion: 10 years - 2015 to 2025 The complexity of the discussion: Disruptive technology and school's culture / Automated Efficiency to Augmentation to Human Machine Leadership: Experimental, Transformational and Contrarian  Leadership and Technology Exponential Change Introduction “In the agricultural era, schools mirrored a garden. In the industrial era, classes mirrored the factory, with an assembly line of learners. In the digital-information era, how will learning look?” Lucy Dinwiddie Global Learning & Executive Development Leader, General Electric  (Center for Cre...