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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.
Learner Identity: The ways we contribute to shaping this through the messages we share. Growing an awareness of the impact of our everyday ways of being and doing. Author: Marianne MacPherson
This quote was put up on our website a little while ago - I am not sure who wrote it. But it struck a chord with me immediately in the...
UNPACKING MY KETE: Ko Te Kore – the child has potential Author: Gillian Fitzgerald
In 2009, the Ministry of Education launched its resource Te Whatu Pōkeka, Kaupapa Māori assessment and learning exemplars. It was a resource that focused on assessment of Māori children in Māori early...
Building Resilience and the Important Place of Empathy. Author: Marianne MacPherson
Over the last several years of teaching at Pigeon Mountain Kindergarten we gave much consideration as a teaching team to the importance of Resilience in supporting children’s learning. As we...
Growing Motivated, Leaderful Teaching Teams. Author: Lynn Rupe
Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with several of the teachers from a highly motivated, leaderful teaching team. Often one of the questions I hear from leaders,...
Passionately Interested in Planning. (Still) Author: Alison Brierley
I have used this title to pay tribute to Diti Hill’s 2001 article ‘Passion, power and planning in the early childhood centre’. I urge teachers to read it. The discussions...