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Education
Learning at home: start with relationships
Ākonga and whānau will look to you for guidance and support as they adjust to thinking about learning at home,…
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News
Your stories: Omakere School’s journey to Environmental Manaakitanga
Omakere's normal school year centres around a whole-school inquiry into its environment: "Most of our class work, including literacy and…
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News
What is the process for installing solar in schools?
Once, not so long ago, switching to solar power was all about cutting costs and embracing clean energy....
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Education
How can school leaders and teachers be the change we want to see?
I watch teachers and intervention specialists increase their knowledge, establish appropriate assessments tools, access resources and decodable texts, and ultimately…
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Teachers' Desk
PM Jacinda Ardern explains new measures to tackle coronavirus
"If you close schools, where do children go? They go to their grandparents, or other caregivers. So we have to…
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Administration
Op-Ed: How to optimise online learning in the age of Coronavirus
An educational psychologist proposes five key considerations for educators supporting students’ online learning.
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Industry Voices
Children’s agency, a champion, and a model for advocacy
There is unprecedented interest in two big ideas: child agency and child voice. What facilitates a rights-based learning setting? What…
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Teachers' Desk
You can do it! A ‘growth mindset’ helps us learn
When I teach, in both schools and university, I encourage students at the end of a teaching session to identify…
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News
Hidden allergens, colour psychology and zoning floor trends
Re-designing your school’s learning environment from the ground up? It starts with flooring. Specialists have told us that floor zoning…
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Health & Safety
Period poverty contributing to inequity in NZ
Too many New Zealand teenagers are missing school because they cannot afford menstrual products, contributing to inequity in Aotearoa New…
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Administration
You’ll never say ‘face the front’ again
Modern learning environments, must provide teachers with the physical tools they need to facilitate self-directed learning. It's all about shifting…
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Industry Voices
What schools SHOULD do about teen vaping
Hysteria or genuine concern? A survey of 30,000 Year 10 students examined how prevalent teen vaping was in 2019. Schools…
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Administration
School attendance drop concerns educators
“But it is clear from the patterns of absences – they are worse on Mondays and Fridays, and 22% of…
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Education
“Four siblings sharing one uniform”, new survey shines light
Schools detailed an increasing number of measures they are taking to support struggling families, including changing to cheaper uniforms with…
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Education
Op-Ed: A deeper look at the new Climate Change Resources
What good teacher would want to ban Thunberg from the classroom materials? If we want to empower children to respond to the…
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News
How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher
It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…
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Administration
Where is the funding for support staff pay rise?
Schools are anxious about how they can afford the new rates and have called on the Ministry of Education to…
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Education
Does integrating school curriculum areas work?
Maths was especially difficult to integrate, and many teachers chose to continue teaching this as a single learning area...
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
Why Aotearoa’s teachers need to get out more
Out-of-classroom learning has been known to induce arrythmia in the most laid-back of educators.
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News
Maintaining school grounds shouldn’t be this hard
Good mower versus bad mower... What’s the difference?
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Education
Bill has biggest education changes in decades, says Gov
NZers want a learner-focused, high-quality, culturally responsive, and inclusive education system. The Bill turns many of their ideas for the…
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Administration
School support staff to consider new collective agreement
School support staff who are members of NZEI Te Riu Roa will vote on a new collective agreement offer from…
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Education
Why Facebook belongs in the math classroom
Most students I encounter have never studied graph theory; it’s rare for it to appear in high school or a…
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Property
Cutting edge technology preps for life
Amid a huge technological shakeup, NZ schools are responding to the world’s rapidly changing workforce landscape.
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Industry Voices
Case study: Acoustic treatments for Westmount School MLE
Westmount School refurbished its Kaipara campus to include a new learning centre designed around modern learning and flexible learning spaces.
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