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Property
Making a statement with digital signage
Shhhh, please. We have exams... Foyer refurb starts next week – use side entrance.... Welcome, friends from France.... These are…
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Education
How to STEAM with integrity through ‘Impact Projects’
Renowned principal Claire Amos tells us about her school's STEAM revolution and how others can emulate its success.
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News
To teachers, with love
Very soon you’ll be striking. Thank you for being not only her teacher, but mine. For providing knowledge and enabling…
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Administration
How Spotswood College built a school programme to challenge the system
2019 is the year that principal Nicola Ngarewa will revolutionise the high school timetable.
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Industry Voices
NZ Parents stand strong in support of teachers’ strike
A number of parents on the group have children with additional learning needs and have expressed their concern about the…
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Administration
NCEA shake-up: Mixed feelings over external assessments
"As much as it sounds like a simple solution to push half of the assessments to external to deal with…
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Education
Winning schools announce big STEM plans
Otamatea High School will use its solar equipment package to integrate STEM learning across as many subject areas as possible.
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Administration
Ministry slams “disruptive” new strike threats
The Ministry of Education maintains that the government is doing all it can do to alleviate teachers’ stress. Ellen MacGregor-Reid,…
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Administration
Meet the schoolboys spearheading flipped learning
We interviewed Simon and Aidan about their passion for all things digital tech and the awesome learning resource they’ve created…
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Education
Secondary schools need more support for student wellbeing
School-based supports may include in-school counsellors, Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB), and health professionals based at schools.
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Administration
Because learning differences exist
Why do we hold so dearly and continue to fund reading recovery when the research this was founded on has…
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News
How schools lift achievement in literacy
While the six primary schools in the study each took a different approach, the analysis identified three common elements.
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Administration
MoE “remains available to negotiate” with NZEI balloters
Now that NZEI members have voted to reject almost $700 million in pay increases, Deputy Secretary Early Learning & Student…
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News
Self-directed play inspires rich learning
“Play that is open-ended nurtures so much more of a child’s holistic learning than instructional, teacher-driven activity for this age…
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Activities
Aspirations of Māori students boosted by Waikato initiative
Experiencing subject learning in a workplace context is having “positive and profound” effect on secondary school students throughout Waikato, with…
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Administration
5 self-care tips for grieving teachers
Make sure your own ‘oxygen mask’ is firmly in place before you try to help anyone else.
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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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Education
$1.27m funding for gifted education starts this term
One-day schools bring gifted children together for one day each week, so they can engage in different types of challenging…
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Industry Voices
Vocational education reform: Keep the baby, change the bath
Will the Minister’s vision for vocational education lead to equally learner-centric solutions? No. My belief is that the vital relationships…
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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
NZ Maori Council launches National Taskforce on Education
"Just because you might study or teach at a small rural school does not mean to say you should be…
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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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