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A Budget on Paper. A Crisis in the Classroom.
By Rebecca Thomas Our Top Heavy Fraction When I told people where I was moving for my new role, their faces shifted—eyebrows raised,...

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13 hours ago4 min read
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How Co-requisites and Surveillance Will Push Our Kids Out of Education
by Rebecca Thomas The student has already left Rocked. Saddened. Frustrated. That’s the trio of emotion that sits heavy in the chest when...

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6 days ago3 min read
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Our Inconvenient Truth
by Rebecca Thomas Image by ChatGPT In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth shook the world awake. I remember exactly where I was when I first...

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May 143 min read
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Banning Social Media Platforms for Under 16s?
by Rebecca Thomas 🙈👍🚫 The solution a boy gave his friend when dumping his girlfriend on social media. I have NO IDEA the connotation...

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May 74 min read
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What Kāhui Ako Taught Us: The kōrero our sector deserved from the government
by Rebecca Thomas We’ve spent more than a decade living alongside Kāhui Ako—arguing over their function, dissecting their structure, and...

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May 24 min read
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When Gifts Come Early
by Rebecca Thomas *Unicorn Train: by Steve Saville I apologise in advance, but Erica just keeps giving me reasons to type... This week’s...

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Apr 283 min read
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Listening to Our Children: Returning to the Heart of Te Mātaiaho
By Rebecca Thomas 2023 Te Mātaiaho RIP We stand at a crossroads. One path leads back to hope, vision, and trust. The other leads to...

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Apr 276 min read
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Where will $118 Million Go?
by Rebecca Thomas AI generated image Outside, the storm will pass. I hope the one within our sector does too — not by tearing things...

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Apr 164 min read
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Why Dismantling Kāhui Ako Isn’t the Fix We Need
by Rebecca Thomas A false choice: This binary oversimplifies a complex issue I’ve said it before: my Kāhui Ako is broken . Meetings feel...

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Apr 143 min read
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I will not let a curriculum written in nostalgia erase my future
By Rebecca Thomas, inspired by Suli Breaks and Te Ngāhere students Yuval Noah Harari So you want me to get an education… Why? Let me...

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Apr 103 min read
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#AdolescenceLiteracyMatters
by Rebecca Thomas Artwork by Year 8 Student Why English must evolve to include digital and critical literacy for today’s teens. Some...

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Apr 54 min read
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Why Our English Curriculum Feedback Must Connect with Adolescent Reality
by Rebecca Thomas Adolescence, Netflix I promise this blog won't summarise the many concerns I have already heard this week. Not the Rata...

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Apr 25 min read
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So You Know Your Government Is Whitewashing the Curriculum. What Can We Do?
by Rebecca Thomas Artwork by Raewyn Harris I've spent the weekend reflecting on Jessie Moss's powerful article exposing how anti-Māori,...

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Mar 315 min read
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My Kāhui Ako is Broken
by Rebecca Thomas A line I hear all the time is: Kāhui Ako don’t work. And I get it. Across New Zealand, two-thirds of our schools are...

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Mar 266 min read
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The great assessment sell off - the true cost going ‘standardised’
By Rebecca Thomas Our assessment system is now out for tender to consultants—most likely non-educators being paid fat salaries—to design...

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Mar 213 min read
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Do you Mark your e-asTTle with AI?
by Rebecca Thomas Image by Steve Saville Just Because We Could, Does It Mean We Should? No doubt you’ve been in a room full of teachers...

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Mar 125 min read
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How are your new maths resources going?
By Rebecca Thomas I am not a maths person, or a maths facilitator. These thoughts are reflections on how I have seen the maths resources...

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Mar 104 min read
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Some schools swear by PB4L; others struggle to make it work
by Rebecca Thomas A blog post asking if PB4L is the right approach for our young people is going to attract two kinds of readers. Some...

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Mar 26 min read
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AI in the Staffroom
By Rebecca Thomas Free Downloadable Resource Cards Teacher: Hey Bee, good to see you. I’m looking forward to our staff meeting on AI. Me:...

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Feb 254 min read
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A culturally responsive way to understand AI
by Rebecca Thomas Caveat: Being culturally responsive doesn’t mean becoming an expert in tikanga Māori, Mātauranga Māori, or te ao Māori....

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Feb 215 min read
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