Dargaville is geographically isolated. It is 55 kilometres to Whangārei, 174 to Tāmaki Makaurau, and a walk to your closest bookstore is a casual six-and-a-half hour stroll along the banks of the Wairoa River to Ruawai.
Reggio Emilia is many things – a beautiful town to the northwest of Bologna, a wider region that the town sits within, and a world-renowned philosophy of early childhood education.
For Rose Coppen, a Margaret May Blackwell travel fellow, Reggio Emilia is also a source of inspiration – and the focus of her travel enabled by the fellowship.
By Melissa Denzler, Kaitohu Mātauranga
The following is excerpted from my recent presentation at the NASDAP Conference.
By Nicola Bright (Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa) - Kairangahau Matua Māori
While the aggregated 2021 responses to the Teaching, School and Principal Leadership Practices (TSP) survey remain largely in line with the aggregated 2017 responses, the latest report from Cathy Wylie and David Coblentz poses some important questions for change in our schools.
English-medium schools need to strategically plan for how they will grow te reo Māori inside and outside of the classroom. Pou reo – people who actively support reo Māori teaching and learning in schools – are the ‘doers’ who give life to these plans.
