by Rebecca Thomas After recently reading an old paper where two case studies tried to pinpoint how to tackle educational disparities,...

by Rebecca Thomas (image by Jason Rosewell) Call back days, curriculum refresh days, PLD, TODs, Accord days, are all met with the same...

By Rebecca Thomas Usually, I tend not to write when I am feeling disgruntled or emotionally tired, but this week I have heard and seen...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas On Friday the MOE released the pedagogical approaches for teaching literacy, communication and maths....

by Rebecca Thomas ‘People vote with their feet.’ -Russell Bishop Today teachers voted with their feet. They let the country know how...

By Rebecca Thomas ‘We expect teachers to reach unattainable goals with inadequate resources. The miracle is this: they often do.” - Haim...

By Rebecca Thomas "I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It is that simple." - Jacinda Adern, 7th February 2023 Listening...

by Rebecca Thomas ‘Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.’ - Khali Gibran Like you,...

by Rebecca Thomas Part 2 of ''It's time to talk about pedagogy." “How do we set up communities in our staff to share pedagogy, not just...

by Steve Saville I recently had the privilege to present four Tiriti o Waitangi workshops at Howick College. I say privileged because it...

by Steve Saville " A bad curriculum well taught is invariably better than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas 'Her chaos made her beautiful.' - Atticus Chaos is a terrible word to describe anything. It’s not...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ‘How ‘bout them transparent dangling carrots.’ -Alanis Morissette It is now obvious that the...

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...

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...

By Rebecca Thomas Pause. Think for a minute. Since term 4 started, what have you accomplished? Write it down. Habitually we tend to...

By Steve Saville ‘When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.’ -African Proverb This blog introduces an idea that school structures...

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...

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...

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...