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...

This year Dianne Fisi'iahi and I are both in-school COL teachers for Panmure Bridge School. What I like about this is that there are two...

Link to causal chain This year I want to find out if  a focus on spelling conventions foster an environment where word consciousness strengt...

Click here   to see how I align my inquiry with the Manaiakalani framework . “Recognising and spreading sophisticated pedagogical practice a...

Begin to collect evidence and data and come to the next session ready to share your preliminary findings about the nature and extent of the ...

Describe the tools/measures/approaches you plan to use to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that...

Last term I attended the Creating Digital Escape Rooms with Donna Yates toolkit. Donna introduced us to a collection of published digital es...

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...