by Rebecca Thomas Dear Fellow Educators (friends), If you are reading this, you have likely received the difficult news that your...

by Rebecca Thomas Educators are particularly susceptible to getting riled up about the latest injustice or salacious narratives (I...

by Steve Saville This blog is a response to an excellent article from ‘The Guardian’ that Claire Amos linked via the DisruptEd facebook...

by Steve Saville This is not a word that we have traditionally associated with education but it is one that, over the last year, has...

by Rebecca Thomas Underfunded, overworked, and yet soldiering on - these are the unsung heroes of our education system. Darting between...

by Rebecca Thomas What a strange title - 'relief teacher'. Your job as a 'relief teacher' is either to provide relief for the original...

By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas ERO will be supporting the implementation of the two new 100-Day Plan priorities as part of their...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas Fifty years have passed since Tame Iti and Ngā Tamatoa aimed to rescue and normalise te reo Māori....

by Rebecca Thomas Are we serious about raising standards? Unquestionably we assume learning is like a ladder, and schools should be...

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...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas Image, King Tawhiao, depicted by  Gottfried Lindauer (1885) Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ke te...

by Rebecca Thomas Feeling lost? Feeling a bit like Alice? While the ground continually shifts beneath your feet, you make the final...

by Rebecca Thomas What follows is a description of how and why those beginning steps, where that Induction process happens, are so...

by Steve Saville Comparing a school to an ecosystem is not exactly a new concept. It has been used as an effective comparison with...

by Rebecca Thomas Tikanga and Fidelity; these two words have been used by many since the release of Te Mātaiaho and the Common Practice...

by Steve Saville This is the first of two blogs that are linked to, and help unpack our previous blog, that introduced Te Kākano model as...

by Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas For some months now I have had a growing sense of frustration, an increasing feeling of confusion...

By Steve Saville and Rebecca Thomas (Image, Midnight Rose, Sophia Minson) Na Te Kore, Te Pō Ki te Whai-Ao Ki te Ao-Mārama Tihei mauri-ora...

By Rebecca Thomas The Tohunga Suppression Act and the Native Schools Act; two methods used to oppress our indigenous people, one to...

by Rebecca Thomas Imagine the nerves and the lump in your throat when you’ve been asked by Russell Bishop to stand up and share with a...