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...

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...

By Rebecca Thomas White noise is sound, especially of a continuous kind, that seems to have no pattern or rhythm - Collins Dictionary It...

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,...

By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ‘Even castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.’ - Jimi Hendrix The Rethinking Education...

by Rebecca Thomas “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” - William James “You look...

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...

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...

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...

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)....

by Rebecca Thomas Reflecting on the amount of blogs Steve and I have written lately I noticed there is someone missing from our library...

by Steve Saville Since the start of this school term I have had numerous conversations with school leaders and leadership teams that have...

by Rebecca Thomas "Teaching, the magic weaving business." -Sir John Jones If I asked you to share with anyone in a room what the most...

by Steve Saville Belonging, like wellbeing, is one of those terms that we are starting to throw around quite liberally in schools right...

by Rebecca Thomas and Steve Saville Compliantly we clatter along the tracks being laid down for us from external forces. Aware that the...

“Not all those who wander, are lost.” - JRR Tolkien A Teachers’ Life in Pictures Wondering what my retirement Might eventually look like,...

By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas “Story, it’s a reminder that you’ve lived it and that it has value.” Heather Greenwood Davis...

by Rebecca Thomas and Steve Saville An iconic festival that brings thousands of people together from all around the world always starts...

by Rebecca Thomas Rarely you read a post on social media that doesn’t try to sway you into an academic research camp of some kind....

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas As we gear up to proofread reports destined to be sent out to whānau, we find it challenging to...