Monday, October 3, 2022

Dispositional Curriculum: Supporting Young People to Cope/Thrive in a Disrupted World.

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 When myself and my 3 DPs first met up to begin work at the start of 2013 we were presented with the following vision from the Establishment...
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Connected Learning Supporting Specialist Knowledge

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  Connected Learning Promoting Specialist Knowledge David Hood, in his book  The Rhetoric and The Reality,  which I touched on in a  previou...
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Thursday, October 14, 2021

Time to Calm The Farm - Schools are not in chaos

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These are challenging times as we deal with a very tricky global pandemic and school leaders are being called upon to lead when the conditio...
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Sunday, October 10, 2021

Plan For Opening School for Term 4

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 Like a lot of people, I imagine, I've done some grieving about our Covid situation. However, since the movement from 4 to 3 and the fur...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Time to Question Calendar Year Qualifications - relieve stress and workload and deepen learning

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Last year I published a post entitled How to Manage NCEA in a Covid Affected 2020 . At that time (April 2020) there was a lot of uncertainty...
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Old Thinking vs New Thinking: NCEA Frustrations and MIssed Opportunities and the Power of Language - a brief gripe

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We've missed a huge opportunity with the opportunity to review NCEA. Many of the changes have cemented old thinking and old ways of stru...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Wellbeing is Learning!

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More and more in my leadership growth journey I have come to realise the importance of wellbeing in learning.  It began with delving into th...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

Tuesdays with Maurie: Warm and Demanding to start the year

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  Every second Tuesday I get to host a morning Kitchen Table (Staff Hui) for our staff from 8 30 - 9 00am so obviously it's called Tuesd...
Monday, February 1, 2021

2021: How to Thrive: Whanaungatanga and Wellbeing @ HPSS

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 Like all kura we learned a great deal from the heavily COVID affected 2020, and like all kura we're determined to embed that learning a...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

How to Manage NCEA in Covid-affected 2020

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A Rider I want to start by saying that I have no ulterior motive for putting forward the following suggested strategy. My focus is entirely...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

"We got this" Preparing for Off-site Learning

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We had a Staff Only Day yesterday to ensure we were prepared for off-site learning with a shared common understanding of what we meant by...
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