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May 31, 20244 min read
"Teachers can’t be curriculum designers as well as teachers," says New-look English Curriculum Writers
by Rebecca Thomas The proposed changes to the secondary English curriculum have sparked a debate around balancing prescribed content with...
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May 26, 20243 min read
Budget Breakthrough or Bandaid Solution in Budget 24
By Rebecca Thomas The announcement of 'nearly $53 million' invested over four years to support teacher training and recruitment in order...
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May 22, 20245 min read
Structured Literacy PLD: Diving Deep After the $67 Million Splash
by Rebecca Thomas (Image generated by OpenAI) In the realm of education, the pursuit of effective literacy instruction is paramount,...
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May 13, 20243 min read
The Illusion of Inclusion
By Rebecca Thomas First off, a huge thanks to Dr. Nina Hood and her team for continuing to share such vital resources and knowledge...
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May 10, 20243 min read
$67 Million for Structured Literacy: Is it a Surface-Level Fix?
by Rebecca Thomas image Art by Juile Dillon "Nothing new in this book," is a comment I heard from a colleague after they had read Leading...
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May 1, 20243 min read
Stumbling into a wānanga
by Rebecca Thomas (image Art by Ange Moko) Accustomed to the driven restraints of rigid time, timetables, agendas and Gregorian clocks...
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Apr 25, 20244 min read
More than a job title: we all have names
by Rebecca Thomas New job. Day three. Meeting my new children and teachers across five schools. “Good morning class, this is our new...
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Apr 18, 20243 min read
An Open Letter to Any Educators Being 'Let Go'
by Rebecca Thomas Dear Fellow Educators (friends), If you are reading this, you have likely received the difficult news that your...
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Apr 7, 20242 min read
Rage against the news feed machine
by Rebecca Thomas Educators are particularly susceptible to getting riled up about the latest injustice or salacious narratives (I...
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Apr 3, 20246 min read
Paradise lost? Education in Aotearoa and Estonia
by Steve Saville This blog is a response to an excellent article from ‘The Guardian’ that Claire Amos linked via the DisruptEd facebook...
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Mar 19, 20242 min read
Breaking Point: Sink or Swim?
by Rebecca Thomas Underfunded, overworked, and yet soldiering on - these are the unsung heroes of our education system. Darting between...
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Mar 12, 20245 min read
Relief Teachers - Where are they?
by Rebecca Thomas What a strange title - 'relief teacher'. Your job as a 'relief teacher' is either to provide relief for the original...
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Feb 19, 20244 min read
Responding to the 100-Day Plan (cheat code)
By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ERO will be supporting the implementation of the two new 100-Day Plan priorities as part of their...
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Feb 6, 20243 min read
Māori and non-māori shoulder to shoulder: a new canvas, a blank canvas
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas Fifty years have passed since Tame Iti and Ngā Tamatoa aimed to rescue and normalise te reo Māori....
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Jan 25, 20244 min read
Planning for Culturally Responsive Assessment: Inside the Black Box
by Rebecca Thomas Are we serious about raising standards? Unquestionably we assume learning is like a ladder, and schools should be...
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Jan 18, 20243 min read
Day one, we rise
by Steve Saville So much can happen in a year. This time last year we were in danger of being washed away here in Auckland, this year we...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
Beyond the Headlines there is Strength in Unity
by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas Image, King Tawhiao, depicted by Gottfried Lindauer (1885) Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ke te...
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Nov 1, 20234 min read
Taking Charge in 2024: Finding your way like Alice
by Rebecca Thomas Feeling lost? Feeling a bit like Alice? While the ground continually shifts beneath your feet, you make the final...
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Oct 26, 20233 min read
Barriers to Te Mātaiaho
by Rebecca Thomas What follows is a description of how and why those beginning steps, where that Induction process happens, are so...
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