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Our facilitators and associates love to write about what they are passionate about! Please browse through our articles below. To find a topic you are intersted in select from the category options above the images below.
Red and Orange Horses, Do They Matter. Author: Wendy Lee
As a cultural event approaches, such as Mothers or Fathers Day, Christmas or Easter, may educators and teachers in early childhood settings give children templates or outlines to colour in so that they have something 'good' to present to their...
Learning Stories: Documentation with the power to transform. Author: Wendy Lee
My teaching career began in the 1970s in a New Zealand kindergarten. There were 120 children on a roll, plus a group of five profoundly deaf children.
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Internal Evaluation: Questioning our practice through thoughtful investigation. Author: Lorraine Sands
The journey needs a vehicle, a way of taking this thoughtful gaze and giving it a focussed context. Inquiry Research helps us do this. When teams set a reflective question...
Let’s slow down: Shifting from directing and correcting to a culture of connecting. Author: Harriet O’Sullivan
What busy lives we lead. Always rushing from here to there, structuring our days, and time, to fit as much in as possible. Where does all of this over-scheduling leave us in...
Connection: The beating heart that drives learning. Author: Lorraine Sands
Connection, with each other and with our environments, is crucial to the act of learning, and thus as teachers we must strive to improve the connections for children in our care with...
So what is different about Learning Stories? Authors: Ann Hatherly and Lorraine Sands
Just as the word 'curriculum' became so much part of early childhood discourse ten years ago, so 'Learning Stories' is slipping easily off the tongue in early childhood circles these days. In New Zealand, at least, most of us now...