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Administration
What do I say? “Dead, dying, death.”
We received all your questions, so let’s talk about student suicide: how to respond, how to prevent and how to…
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Administration
Trailblazing role brings Te Reo to digital classrooms
In a first for New Zealand education, a cluster of Northland schools now has its own Rumaki and Reo Rua…
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Education
Education in schools needed to address gender equality
If boys and girls are virtually the same socially, psychologically and cognitively, there is no need to try and fit…
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News
Op-ed: The librarian, my students, and I
When I first started teaching research skills I noticed that students, who were supposedly digital natives, did not know how…
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Administration
Exploring sustainable school ideas
If anyone has a vested interest in environmental sustainability, it’s today’s youth. Unfortunately, they are growing up in a society…
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News
CensusAtSchool: a statistical experience for students
“Students get the whole statistical experience – from filling in the survey to delving into the data to gain valuable…
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Administration
Is ‘sex ed’ failing the #metoo generation?
“It is not easy teaching these things. The Ministry of Education is risk averse and doesn’t provide support for professional…
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Maori Language
Tipene reopening overwhelmingly popular with parents
Māori mothers are desperate for solution to the education of their boys, says Oldboys Association chair, Joe Harawira.
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Administration
27% school leaders working more than 61 hours pw
An NZEI phone survey of 500 principals in the first two weeks of term found that 10% of schools were…
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Administration
After 10,000+ quakes, how do we help our tamariki?
How do we improve learning and behaviour of school children after a natural disaster?
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Education
Māori history curriculum already available
The New Zealand School Trustees Association supports the teaching of New Zealand history in schools but is bewildered by calls…
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News
Teaching CPR in schools should be compulsory, right?
By 2020, basic first aid will be compulsory in state-funded British schools. Should New Zealand be moving in the same…
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Administration
Five key values of strong Māori leadership
Finding Māori leaders is no easy feat. Not because we lack leaders, but because they are reluctant to stand up…
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Education
Police Studies now offered at 3 Kapiti-Mana high schools
The course will cover the context of policing in New Zealand, Mātauranga Maori and Police, leadership in Police, diversity of…
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Profiles
Mahi and aroha rebuilds self-belief for kids, whanau and community
Previously under statutory management our school had a falling roll, results of varying standards, the property was in disrepair, and…
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Administration
Why early diagnosis of autism should lead to early intervention
New Zealand takes an inclusive approach to education. The main goal of the research programme therefore is for children with…
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Education
Education needed to reduce impact of pornography on youth
“Young people themselves have said they need better education to support critical thinking around sex and sexuality rather than allowing…
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Administration
Aspirations of Māori youth focus of Lincoln summit
Developed for Māori students between the ages of 16 and 24, the Taiohi Summit provides a forum to discuss key…
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Administration
Public desire for change: the future of NCEA
Over 16,000 people engaged directly in the NCEA Review, with over 8,000 filling in a survey or detailed submission and…
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Administration
If you don’t lead with small data, you’ll be led by Big Data
Pasi’s key warning here is “Don’t confuse correlation with causation”. Just because the data can be construed to reveal certain…
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Administration
Wilson School leading the way in special education
Our school environment is designed for learners aged five to twenty-one who have additional learning needs across a range of…
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Administration
Resource for teaching stats investigations receives funding
Mathematics and statistics educator Dr Pip Arnold’s winning proposal is for a resource to support statistics teaching and learning in…
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Administration
Primary schools visit Antarctica
Primary school children from all around New Zealand will be able to learn about the work undertaken by Ryan’s team…
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Administration
Concerned education unions consider joint action
Elected leaders of 48,000 principals and teachers from PPTA Te Wehengarua and NZEI Te Riu Roa have met and agreed…
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Administration
Ministry pushes foreign recruits to fill teacher vacancies
"Our recruitment drive to attract teachers to New Zealand is already helping to cover the extra 850 primary and secondary…
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