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All the best for the NZPF Mt Victoria summit - here is my Maungatautari one
Just as the NZPF summit looks out on Mt Victoria for its inspiration, I look out on Maungatautari for mine (though I do have the choice of Sanatorium Hill which, while probably more appropriate to my age, doesn’t quite have that inspirational ring to it).... more
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It is a straight out swerve around Maori and Pasifika children
Forget about deciles and school performance as being considerations in the swerve around Maori and Pasifika children; the only consideration is whether a school has a significant number of Maori and Pasifika children.... more
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Hubris on their part and let us face it schadenfreude on ours
In my family, the Shadbolt family, such an SSC interaction would usually be the beginning of a huge feud and years if not decades of Javert-style bitterness and search for vengeance, but to be honest, I find it a bit of a laugh – what could you expect? Let them stew. However, my family’s atavism may show through – who knows?... more
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The teaching figments for excellence will be seriously damaging to teaching and learning
The conclusion is that in its determination to impose performance pay, the ideological right had to look for a change in a part of the education system that would bring sufficient savings to fund the policy they were set on.... more
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The ministry put the technology policy to middle-management
Now this is the really interesting bit: the policy, such as it was, was passed to middle-management to comment on. The response, resoundingly, was for God’s sake don’t go there, or words to that effect. Hekia Parata and Longstone, though, jointly made the decision to proceed, but they were sufficiently concerned to not include it in the pre-budget announcement with the other frontline staff cut.... more
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The Primary Teacher: Quackle poodle fiddle quisle diddle
‘The primary teacher described is all of us. Not in detail, or in depth, perhaps, but in philosophy, in aspiration. He is the ‘unknown’ teacher – in inverted commas, because some of you will recognise him, but I suggest you don’t – think of him as all of us.’
To mark five years of networkonnet making a nuisance of itself in education, a limited number of the booklets of the recently posted prose poem – The Primary Teacher – will be available to schools.
Three for any school: one for any networkonnet individual reader.... more
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Breaking news: reject the government easing deal - stick together
Staff cuts are harmful to children so we are professionally and ethically bound to oppose them.... more
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Treasury domination of ministry: reason for staffing shemozzle and backdown
The government’s position is weakened in respect to a whole range of education policies it was planning to implement.... more
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Technology cuts to do with amalgamating intermediates to secondary schools
Please AIMS, no talk of a delegation to Wellington, the destruction of technology was in the budget, and is a few weeks short of being in regulations. Bill English is running the show not Hekia. Nor will there be any admission by National of its long term plans for intermediates. Going to Wellington would be like an alcoholic visiting a pub, in no time at all, you would be back into schmooze control.... more
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Breaking news: This rubbish has to stop - technology staffing smashed
This is not the posting promised on National’s planning since 2009 for frontline staffing cuts, this is a posting on a sudden and fantastical education outrage.... more
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