Today was a first for me. I was invited to Christchurch by Mark Maddren, Manaiakalani Outreach facilitator for the Hornby Cluster. I was as...

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Today we presented our inquiries to our audience at uLearn15. Empowering to be a part of such a innovative cluster. Manaiakalan...

This was my presentation at the Manaiakalani Hui. It reflects my inquiry journey so far. Our next step is to share our rubric with the ...

Fine and Ducati used the 'ifaketext' task to help them merge the learning from the last few weeks to write a persuasive text that r...

The MIT group devised this questionnaire to see where our class was at with their own understanding of punctuation. They sat with each stud...

With our year 7/8 camp over and the work to celebrate the amazing learning we had outside our usual four walls completed, my MIT group are b...

The pictures above show us beginning the challenge of creating our own writing rubric that all the students at PBS could understand. We...

Today I used my MIT group as 'experts' but have noticed that these students all have strong and dominant personalities. This often...

Sharing Austin's Butterfly with my MIT focus group helped them make real connections to the power of feedback. The students were amaz...

The power of giving specific feedback. Amazing! 

What a week! It's the end of Week 6 and those of you who are teachers will know that means we are now half way through term one. For me...

I have been fortunate enough to move through to the 2015 teaching year with some students who were in my class in 2014. This has given me ...

Today the Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers 2015 (MIT15) group met to share the focus of our inquiries. It was inspiring to be a part of th...

This week saw the start of my MIT inquiry. I selected a group of talented young writers who will become not only my target group, but also...

To use the ‘Comments’ feature in Google Docs to extend and accelerate my learners’ levels of cognitive engagement and achievement, throu...