Another happy thing that happened during my one week at work, I think I finally successfully facilitated a discussion session. I have been to those many meetings and tiring discussion sessions. Some of the things that dishearten me in the past: 1) NATO 2) Staff dozing off 3) Lack of purpose, more of wayang than helping pupils. Those in my line, or used to be in my line, know we have many professional learning community, sharing etc, I am speaking for myself only, but I find only 20% of these to be useful, 5% game changing, 30% harmless, and close to half the time, just plain WOT (waste of time) I am very happy when I managed to avoid all 3 pitfalls, and I managed to stick to the time, no overrun. I did the most thorough analysis in my 10 years of service. Usually, either I am so hard-pressed ......