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Visible Learning: What Good Practice Looks, Sounds, and Feels Like
Effective learning is engaging, collaborative, and visible, with students at the center, actively creating knowledge.
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Jan 255 min read
Rediscovering Now: Where futures thinking gets it wrong
Society’s preoccupation with learning as contributing to future success often leads us to view learning as a necessity.
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Jan 34 min read
Learning Matters: a case to make school more compelling
When kids engage in learning from a young age, achievement follows. Therefore, enjoyment and engagement should become our key metrics.
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Dec 30, 20234 min read
Freedom to Fail: Discovering the Learning Zone
It’s hard to ignore how many students are finally catching on to the power of generative AI. Towards the end of 2023, I found my...
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Nov 24, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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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Sep 30, 20235 min read
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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May 30, 20233 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 24, 20225 min read
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, 20215 min read
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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Oct 27, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
“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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20215 min read
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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