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...

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...