THE KIWI TEACHER

For collaboration to truly take hold, we need to build it into a classroom culture. When we do, we can all succeed together.

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.

Until we are able to value, support and empower teachers in ways that are truly transformative, we’re just offering them an empty promise.

Instead of meetings becoming a teachers gripe, I offer an opportunity to reframe hiw we meet through the lens of hui, wananga and talanoa.

I recently read about a group of students using a shared Google Doc to take lecture notes. The notetaking was simultaneously taken in a...