It’s Time to Talk About Pedagogy
by Steve Saville " A bad curriculum well taught is invariably better than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or...
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Engaging Learning
Voices
Light up the dark
A word from the authors...
Observations and wonderings from Steve and Rebecca - creators of the newly published Engaging Staff Meetings Book, Which Voice Resource book and the whimsical world of Werewere School.
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rthomas681
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
The Butterfly Effect
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas 'Her chaos made her beautiful.' - Atticus Chaos is a terrible word to describe anything. It’s not...
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rthomas681
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
Suspended, dangling
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ‘How ‘bout them transparent dangling carrots.’ -Alanis Morissette It is now obvious that the...
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rthomas681
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Your Tribe
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas photo by Christian Vizl ‘What connects a tribe is commitment to do the thing they feel they were born...
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rthomas681
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min
Parting of the Ways
By Rebecca Thomas and Steve Saville “We all change. When you think about it, we're all different people all through our lives,” - Dr. Who...
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rthomas681
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
To done list - or, to do list?
By Rebecca Thomas Pause. Think for a minute. Since term 4 started, what have you accomplished? Write it down. Habitually we tend to...
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rthomas681
- Nov 15, 2022
- 6 min
2023 Schools - Spider's webs or building blocks?
By Steve Saville ‘When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.’ -African Proverb This blog introduces an idea that school structures...
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rthomas681
- Nov 5, 2022
- 3 min
Know your worth
by Rebecca Thomas ‘If you are good at something, never do it for free.’ - Joker Having been a long term advocate for the philosophy of...
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rthomas681
- Oct 31, 2022
- 3 min
Trick, or treat (collective joy)
by Rebecca Thomas “It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo Sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six...
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rthomas681
- Oct 26, 2022
- 5 min
Trust the Process
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas “We do not see things as they are, we see things as WE are.’ - Anai Nin It can be a vulnerable place...
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rthomas681
- Oct 14, 2022
- 4 min
On Orange Peel and Teachers
By Steve Saville "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.' -Arthur Miller There is a crucial...
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rthomas681
- Oct 11, 2022
- 5 min
The path less travelled
By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...
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rthomas681
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
White Noise
By Rebecca Thomas White noise is sound, especially of a continuous kind, that seems to have no pattern or rhythm - Collins Dictionary It...
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rthomas681
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
Children give us wings
by Rebecca Thomas 'Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.' - Dalai Lama As Term 4 approaches,...
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rthomas681
- Sep 20, 2022
- 3 min
An Institution Built on Sand?
By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ‘Even castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.’ - Jimi Hendrix The Rethinking Education...
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rthomas681
- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Looking Tired?
by Rebecca Thomas “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” - William James “You look...
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rthomas681
- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Coming in from the Cold
by Rebecca Thomas Are some feelings good and some feelings bad? A question I posed to 17 students in a tuakana teina class today. At...
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rthomas681
- Sep 5, 2022
- 4 min
Reaching the Horizon
By Steve Saville It’s been a good couple of weeks. I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days working with Tauhara College in Taupo...
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rthomas681
- Sep 4, 2022
- 2 min
Listen, listen hard
by Rebecca Thomas “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” -Peter Drucker Every word we utter in our...
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rthomas681
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
Feed the teacher, so they don’t eat the kids.
By Rebecca Thomas Over 30 very tired staff huddled into a bland white office space of a new building at 3:30pm on a Wednesday (hump day)....
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