Achieving accelerated shift in Literacy was identified as being one of the most important and catalytic issues of learning facing our studen...

With the Manaiakalani goals of achieving 1.5 years progress inside a year (big 3), i mproving teacher practice, increasing a ttendance and  ...

This week the words I heard in our class speech competition completely stopped me in my tracks. Standing in front of an audience of their pe...

Collecting student voice is one of the most powerful forms of feedback. As the strategy of word gifting was new for us I wanted to see if my...

I have been approaching my inquiry into word consciousness as a whole language focus and not simply looking for opportunities to strengthen ...

Share academic or professional readings and explain how they and other sources helped you form hypotheses about aspects of teaching that mig...

After attending the   PLD: Supporting students to become confident and competent spellers run by Louise Dempsey I put some of my new learni...

Last week after talking to the teachers I am mentoring in the RPI program I was reminded of the Reading for Enjoyment survey I did last year...

To grow our own knowledge and strengthen our connections to teaching  phonics, morphology and spelling conventions Dianne and I signed up to...

This year Dianne Fisi'iahi and I will be undertaking a collaborative inquiry. What this will look like exactly at this stage is still o...