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Education Was Never Meant to Be a 'Portfolio'
by Rebecca Thomas The Educational 'Portfolio' Across the motu, something’s shifting — and not in the direction of trust. Maybe you’ve...

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9 hours ago4 min read


Meet them where they are — because kids do well if they can, and you make a difference
by Rebecca Thomas Equity and Inclusion in Education Dedicated to Chrissy and every school with a Chrissy in it, every leader like...

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6 days ago5 min read


Still We Stay
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....

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Jul 54 min read


Increased Teacher Stress = Decreased Co-Regulation
by Rebecca Thomas Covid: Banksy painting for NHS charity It’s easy to look at the rising dysregulation in classrooms and wonder: Are...

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Jul 15 min read


Promises Mean Nothing if the Ministry Won’t Keep Them
by Rebecca Thomas In May, the Ministry of Education told Kāhui Ako educators and boards that their collective agreements would be...

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Jun 263 min read


The recent debate, it is all about context
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,...

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Jun 257 min read


What I’ve Learned From Writing About the Realities of Our Classrooms
by Rebecca Thomas When I wrote “ Teaching Structured Literacy and Maths to Students Who Can't Regulate ”, I wasn’t expecting over 3,500...

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Jun 214 min read


Teaching Structured Literacy and Maths to Students Who Can't Regulate
by Rebecca Thomas Let the angles open — not close — around the child. (Image ChatGPT) "Can we teach our kids self-regulation before...

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Jun 204 min read


A Salute to NZEI: Finally, A Line in the Sand
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...

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Jun 144 min read


What the science doesn't always show us
By Rebecca Thomas Chat GPT image They say silence speaks volumes. But in education, it’s the noise—the slogans, the soundbites, the...

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Jun 66 min read


A Reflection on the $67 Million Dollar Structured Literacy PLD
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...

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May 277 min read


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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May 224 min read


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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May 173 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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