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Finding the Clay: A challenge to transformative leadership
I silently wait for the karanga. Invited to cross the atea, we make our way forward. Leaving my shoes by the door, reminders of the need...
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- Oct 7, 2022
- 5 min
Take a Deep Breath: Why mindfulness won't solve our teacher wellbeing crisis.
Until we are able to value, support and empower teachers in ways that are truly transformative, we’re just offering them an empty promise.
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- Sep 5, 2022
- 5 min
Rethinking assessment: Developing a culture of feedback
As teachers we talk a lot about feedback. But how often do we sit down, pause, and reflect on the feedback we are giving.
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- Apr 27, 2022
- 4 min
Inspiring innovation: Start with Trust
I think the future lies in saying, “Let’s try this”, valuing the collective expertise of educators and taking informed risks.
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- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
Freedom to Learn: How to spark curiosity
We need to be creating free teaching and learning spaces within traditional contexts. Spaces where educators spark curiosity.
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- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
Freedom to Learn: Leaving students to their own devices
With the rise of at-home learning, and easily accessible information online, traditional perceptions around the role of teacher have changed
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- Mar 30, 2022
- 5 min
Collaborative Learning Design – A Third Way
I’m not sure we have to tools to design collaboratively. What I mean is – we don’t have the time, the energy, or the know-how.
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- Mar 24, 2022
- 5 min
Homeroom: How to scaffold pastoral time to support growth.
I'm sharing my experiences of homeroom time and how I think we can best utilise it to support our students growth.
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 5 min
Creating new collaborative spaces: Why Meetings Suck
Instead of meetings becoming a teachers gripe, I offer an opportunity to reframe hiw we meet through the lens of hui, wananga and talanoa.
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 5 min
Learning to thrive: 5 ways to build collaborative classroom culture
For collaboration to truly take hold, we need to build it into a classroom culture. When we do, we can all succeed together.
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- Oct 27, 2021
- 4 min
Learning to thrive: Why we still struggle with collaboration
I recently read about a group of students using a shared Google Doc to take lecture notes. The notetaking was simultaneously taken in a...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
Bridging the gap – The space between WHAT and WHY
What if we began to weave together the strands of reflection AND practice, thinking AND doing, looking backwards AND walking forward.
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
“How can I help?” – where New Amsterdam gets it wrong.
If we want to see real growth in our staff and students, we need to ask, “How can I work WITH you?”
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- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
The Song Book – A metaphor for understanding collective vision and our place in it.
The song book represents our collective understanding. It is our Kaupapa, our vision, where we are heading.
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- Jul 1, 2021
- 4 min
Matauranga Maori: Why acquiring knowledge is not enough
We need to shift away from the traditional epistemology of knowledge to a new way of doing and being.
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- Apr 21, 2021
- 5 min
Let's be scientists: The case to rethink education
In the search for best practice, we need to reconsider our assumptions, re-evaluate our opinions and rethink our answers.
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- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching in the Sandbox
Imagine if learners were given the freedom to explore, interact with and even modify their learning.
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- Jan 10, 2021
- 5 min
The fight to take back The Hype Machine
It was not with surprise but rather with disgust that I read the news of what happened at the Capitol this past week. I wrote that “it...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 4 min
Subject to your disapproval - A call for authentic learning
We need to liberate our pedagogy. When we do, we will see more creative, reinvigorated, and equitable practice.
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- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast (Episode 3) Interview with Teachers Trove
I chat with Atama Cassidy (of Teachers Trove) about how to be culturally responsive and know your learners and their whanau.
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