by Rebecca Thomas The Educational 'Portfolio' Across the motu, something’s shifting — and not in the direction of trust. Maybe you’ve...

by Rebecca Thomas Equity and Inclusion in Education Dedicated to Chrissy and every school with a Chrissy in it, every leader like...

by Rebecca Thomas Image ChatGPT A reflection at the cusp of Term 3 I looked back over the titles Steve and I have written since January....

by Rebecca Thomas Covid: Banksy painting for NHS charity It’s easy to look at the rising dysregulation in classrooms and wonder:  Are...

by Rebecca Thomas In May, the Ministry of Education told Kāhui Ako educators and boards that their collective agreements would be...

By Steve Saville The recent debate, it is all about context. I’m sure that I am not alone in voicing my frustration that, all too often,...

by Rebecca Thomas When I wrote “ Teaching Structured Literacy and Maths to Students Who Can't Regulate ”, I wasn’t expecting over 3,500...

by Rebecca Thomas Let the angles open — not close — around the child. (Image ChatGPT) "Can we teach our kids self-regulation before...

By Rebecca Thomas ChatGPT At last—a crack of light in the storm. NZEI’s move to explore legal action over the government’s abrupt...

By Rebecca Thomas Chat GPT image They say silence speaks volumes. But in education, it’s the noise—the slogans, the soundbites, the...

by Rebecca Thomas ChatGPT I’ve just sat through two days of Ministry of Education-funded Structured Literacy PLD. I went in with an open...

By Rebecca Thomas Our Top Heavy Fraction When I told people where I was moving for my new role, their faces shifted—eyebrows raised,...

by Rebecca Thomas The student has already left Rocked. Saddened. Frustrated. That’s the trio of emotion that sits heavy in the chest when...

by Rebecca Thomas Image by ChatGPT In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth shook the world awake. I remember exactly where I was when I first...

by Rebecca Thomas 🙈👍🚫 The solution a boy gave his friend when dumping his girlfriend on social media. I have NO IDEA the connotation...

by Rebecca Thomas We’ve spent more than a decade living alongside Kāhui Ako—arguing over their function, dissecting their structure, and...

by Rebecca Thomas *Unicorn Train: by Steve Saville I apologise in advance, but Erica just keeps giving me reasons to type... This week’s...

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...

by Rebecca Thomas AI generated image Outside, the storm will pass. I hope the one within our sector does too — not by tearing things...

by Rebecca Thomas A false choice: This binary oversimplifies a complex issue I’ve said it before: my Kāhui Ako is broken . Meetings feel...