We began our 2024 learning journey this year with a staff challenge to meet at the top of Mt Wellington / Maungarei. The reason, to help all...

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...

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

Edit: This observation took place in February 2020 Over the summer period my class took part in the Summer Learning Journey. As a school w...

We began our school year with a Maths professional development session run by Marie Hirst. It was a great way to begin our 2020 journey a...

Today Kiri and I attended the Engaging Shakespeare for Y1-8 PD at the Pop Up Globe theatre. The course was run by Rita Stone   who took us t...

The infographic above reflects the takeaways from todays session that I have taken from our session today. The shortcuts for calendar are...

Learn, create share is the pedagogy we follow as part of the Manaiakalani cluster so it is important that as teachers we not only model th...

Last night our staff worked with Jeremiah Tauti to unpack the aims of the Tapasa Cultural Competencies Framework. Unpacking a document toget...

The Expo Hall at ISTE is huge! There was a wide variety of stands where delegates could explore the new technologies available. Alongside t...

This was the closing keynote of the conference. Richard Culatta gave us some great reminders about the importance of digital citizenshi...

Presenters: Julie Jaeger http://sites.google.com/site/jjaegerconsults/home/elevate-thinking-and-creativity-technology-resources This w...

Presenter: Manuel Harrera This was another session that Kiri and I attended together. The most valuable part of choosing to do sessio...

This was one of my favourite sessions and completely worth getting up at 5am for. Kiri and I met the rest of the group at Cloud Gate, otherw...

Presenters: Baughcum and Dana Ladenburger Visual note taking (also known as sketchnoting) is a note-taking strategy that connects visua...

Andy Weir Science fiction author: The Martian and Artemis Creativity in science can be explored in literacy - STEM Read Boredom leads to di...