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This blog shares four resources that can be used to support students’ emotional wellbeing as they transition back to school.

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effective pedagogy

health and physical education

school culture

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This blog provides tools and resources to help you explore the directions for student learning in The New Zealand Curriculum. Choose an area of focus to strengthen your local curriculum. Reviewing one part of the curriculum inevitably leads to thinking about the other parts. As you embed changes you can revisit this blog to find support in other areas. 

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curriculum design and review

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Leslee Allen, principal of Kaurihohore School, is an advocate and practitioner of play-based learning. In this blog, Leslee responds to three common misunderstandings about play. This is the third blog in a three part series about learning through play.

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Curriculum

primary

student outcomes

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Leslee Allen, principal of Kaurihohore School, is an advocate and practitioner of play-based learning. In this blog, Leslee shares key considerations for teachers who are interested in beginning a journey into play.

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Curriculum

primary

student outcomes

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In this blog, Celia Fleck explains the importance of making connections in your local curriculum and offers practical suggestions on how you can connect your learners to the health and physical education learning area.

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coherence

curriculum design and review

health and physical education

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Are you looking for ways to explore and develop your local curriculum? One way to get started is to identify the rich learning opportunities that exist in your own community. This blog offers some ideas, stories, and questions to help your students “learn locally”.  

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community engagement

curriculum design and review

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This blog provides ideas, questions, tools, and examples to help you design a local curriculum that reflects what is important to your community.

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community engagement

curriculum design and review

māori achievement

parents

student voice

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This blog explores what learning through play is all about and shares how some schools are designing a play-based curriculum.

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Curriculum

primary

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Whare Isaac Sharland was awarded a Dr Vince Ham eFellowship in 2017. Her research investigated the benefits of kapa haka on teaching and learning. In this blog Whare explains how kapa haka can help students develop a positive cultural identity resulting in increased confidence, engagement, and achievement.

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cultural diversity

māori achievement

treaty of Waitangi

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Heemi McDonald is Deputy Principal of Rototuna Senior High School in Hamilton. In this blog post Heemi shares his research into data collection through a Matauranga Māori lens using storytelling.

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assessment

data

māori achievement

values

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