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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 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 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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- Apr 6, 2020
- 4 min
Agency at home: Why Tiger King isn’t what’s stopping you from working.
We have ability to remove obstructions and create the conditions for work, that’s where our agency lies.
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- Apr 3, 2020
- 4 min
Agency at home: Creative responses to constraints
Now more than ever, we need creative responses to constraints.
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- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast (Episode 1) - Interview with Jeremy Downing
I chat with Jeremy Downing (Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ) about systemic inequity and changing the education landscape in Aotearoa.
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- Mar 14, 2020
- 4 min
5 lessons in the midst of COVID-19 – A teacher’s perspective
If they receive nothing else from us, let our students hear the message that they are loved and have the capacity to love.
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- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
All Power to You – Disruption for agency’s sake.
If we can begin to enhance the agency of our staff and students, we have some hope of disrupting power structures.
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- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
Noise versus Music – How to make your classroom sing
A classroom where we give students space to express through both the silence and the sound is the one that will learn.
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- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
Students: Consumers or Creators?
What we need are critical consumers and impassioned creators.
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- Dec 13, 2019
- 4 min
Reflecting our students – The need to hold up the Mirror
We espouse that we don’t want students learning in a framework defined by individualism and competition, so let’s stop teaching in one.
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- Nov 16, 2019
- 5 min
What you say matters – exposing rhetoric and the rise of TeacherSpeak
We need to find a way to reclaim TeacherSpeak and reframe jargon through both critique and the discovery of meaning.
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- Nov 10, 2019
- 3 min
What you say matters – reclaiming ‘alternative facts’
If “the limits of our language mean the limits of our world”, then we must reshape our language in order to reshape our world.
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- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Defining Identity: moving beyond Us and Them
The educator’s role, like the political leaders, is to somehow unite disparate identities under a common vision.
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- Oct 17, 2019
- 3 min
Children should be seen and heard – The need for passionate listening
“Our need to focus on global issues has coincided with the opportunity for young people’s voices to be heard.” – Shay Wright, Ulearn19.
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- Sep 21, 2019
- 4 min
Teaching as a moral craft – The hand, head and heart.
All of the strategies in the world are useless if you do not truly know the young people whose learning you have been entrusted with.
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