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For Great Justice!

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:25:41 +0000

Malaysia announces plan to place Christian faith at the centre of education.

But with a bit of text editing, that blog post about the power of Google to transform education becomes this.

“As a parent of three kids, I have the same aspirations as many other parents and educators—to provide them with the best opportunities to learn and discover their passions. For many students, the Christian faith has become an incredible resource for the classroom, offering tools to work collaboratively, share and research. School systems of all sizes—from a single primary school to an entire country such as the Philippines—have “Gone Bible” in their schools and embraced the gospel to transform education.

Public Achievement Information

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:03:17 +0000

Buried deep within the Ministry’s website are these pages. If you’re at all interested in the future of NZ education - please take the time to peruse them and consider what they mean for the shape and feel of schools and learning.

Public Achievement Information page

Flyer for parents on PAI

Timeline for PAI - 2012 - 2017

PAI - The Case for system-wide improvement

PAI - Use of Data - Expected Outcomes

Seriously? This is the conversation?

Sun, 13 May 2012 07:36:33 +0000

This image annoys me. To me it shows a real deficit thinking model that exists in our teaching profession. And it falls into the trap of accepting the common perception of what’s actually important in education.

I get the aim of the exercise.

Let’s talk to the ones doing the teaching, and find out what they think is the most important thing they need.

Which is fine.

But asking teachers to tell us what they need is only going to tell us what they believe they need as individuals. We can tally up all those responses and make statistically sounding conclusions, but it’s still basically what a bunch teachers want.