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Effective support for culturally responsive teaching

<h3>School leaders&comma; teachers and communities have a new best evidence feature that explains the &OpenCurlyQuote;how’ of building productive partnerships to drive change and excellent outcomes for &amacr;konga in English medium education&period;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;18311" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-18311" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-18311" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;schoolnews&period;co&period;nz&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;02&sol;Prof-Mere-Berryman-300x230&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"230" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-18311" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Professor Mere Berryman<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Released this week by the Ministry of Education&comma; Rongohia te Hau Learning from M&amacr;ori Expertise comes off the back of calls that progress towards a culturally responsive education for M&amacr;ori in education has been too slow or not delivered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new best evidence feature identifies critical success factors that enable transformative change across academic achievement&comma; wellbeing and sense of belonging&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The feature highlights evidence about the need for system change&semi; includes evidence of what does and does not work when evaluated by effects on M&amacr;ori &amacr;konga&semi; and illustrates perspectives of &amacr;konga&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;It’s like the opposite of racism in this school’ and &OpenCurlyQuote;Ko t&amacr;tou ng&amacr; rangatira &amacr;p&omacr;p&omacr;’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Rongohia te Hau includes a presentation by Director of Poutama Pounamu&comma; Professor Mere Berryman and a message to educators about taking a Tiriti o Waitangi partnership approach to transformative education that benefits M&amacr;ori and non-M&amacr;ori&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It brings the evidence to life through seven videos in the online feature that explain the early learning journey of Te K&amacr;hui Ako o Te Puke and Bethlehem College Chapman working with Poutama Pounamu experts to use Rongohia te Hau&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Using learner&comma; wh&amacr;nau and teacher feedback<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Different perspectives inform action<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Co-constructing a continuum of effective teaching practice<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Collecting evidence of pedagogy<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>The learning is in the conversation<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Impacting M&amacr;ori success<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Racism&colon; Taking those blinkers off<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Three school principals who have won the Prime Minister’s Educational <a class&equals;"wpil&lowbar;keyword&lowbar;link" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;schoolnews&period;co&period;nz&sol;2015&sol;11&sol;pm-s-excellence-awards-open-for-2016&sol;" title&equals;"Excellence Awards" data-wpil-keyword-link&equals;"linked" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Excellence Awards<&sol;a> also appear in the videos to explain the changes&period; The feature provides Find out more sections that include references to the underpinning evidence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new best evidence feature can now be accessed at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;educationcounts&period;govt&period;nz&sol;topics&sol;BES&sol;rongohia-te-hau-effective-support-for-culturally-responsive-teaching" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;educationcounts&period;govt&period;nz&sol;topics&sol;BES&sol;rongohia-te-hau-effective-support-for-culturally-responsive-teaching<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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