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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, 20215 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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May 5, 20201 min read
Podcast (Episode 2) - Interview with Maddy Casey-Ashton
I chat with Maddy Casey-Ashton (Learning Coach at Hobsonville Point Secondary School) about collaboration and cross-curricular course design
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Apr 6, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
Agency at home: Creative responses to constraints
Now more than ever, we need creative responses to constraints.
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Mar 31, 20201 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
Students: Consumers or Creators?
What we need are critical consumers and impassioned creators.
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Dec 13, 20194 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20194 min read
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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Sep 12, 20193 min read
Bringing your kete to the classroom – A case for authentic teaching
My challenge to fellow teachers is to be who you are, to share your passions and to bring your kete ready to share.
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