Frank Wilson McColl retweeted
“Pākehā being supportive tāngata Tiriti is more than just learning a language. We have to start with untangling our sense of entitlement to all that we can access.” — Kay Benseman
e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/…
Submissions to this name change proposal close in a week, please follow this link and indicate whether you support the correction of the name back to Pito One or if you’d prefer continuing with the incorrect and meaningless spelling of Petone.
linz.govt.nz/consultations/p…
PISA results suggest the best way to improve students' results is to feed them!
Students who experience food poverty score 2-4 years lower than their peers.
NZ scored 2nd worst in the OECD for students missing 1 meal a week and 3rd for 4+meals.
phcc.org.nz/briefing/food-po…
Are you leading learning in Aotearoa for years 1-8? Come to our 2 day PLD and learn how to teach more than just the basics brilliantly - teaching reading, writing and maths in ways that enrich social studies and histories skills and knowledge.
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The government is sending quite a message here by appointing a curriculum writing group that doesn’t include any Māori educators/ experts
beehive.govt.nz/release/firs…
If you want to know what Elizabeth Rata thinks about education, the forward she wrote for the NZ Initiative’s manifesto on education tells you all you need to know
nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-…
Do you know anyone who’s interested in becoming a teacher? This webinar will help answer some questions about how it works at Victoria. Please make sure everyone knows secondary teacher education is still happening!
explore.wgtn.ac.nz/teaching-…
Speakers of NZ English - please consider participating in this study which will help people within speech impairments be understood by others. Details in comments
You must not:
• Have a very close relative or friend with dysarthria
• Have significant hearing loss
• Be a trained speech therapist
• Have a very high level of musical training
• Have a very high level of training in prosodic analysis
Please contact me on [email protected] for a link to the survey. Approved by the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Human Ethics Committee (#30951)
I am looking for participants for my experiment. It takes about 30 minutes and involves transcription tasks (listening to the voice of a person with a speech impairment and writing down what you think they are saying). You can go in a draw to win one of four $50 vouchers.
Hey Aotearoa diaspora, if you have visited home in the last six years, you can vote in the election! You don't even have to go anywhere - you download papers, fill them out, re-upload, and you are done. Voting for overseas folks is open now. PLEASE vote!
vote.nz/overseas/vote-from-o…
Frank Wilson McColl retweeted
#BHN Luxon today on Tim van de Molen, "has had a difficult year personally over the last year"
Luxon one month ago on Kiri Allan, "clearly this situation raises questions about the judgement of Prime Minister Chris Hipkins"
@Chewie_NZ #nzpol
Twitter folk! I’m trying to find Tāmati Wāka Nene’s signature on the Waitangi sheet and I can’t!
According to the NZ history site he is 35th and just signed as Nene and his signature looked like this - but where is it on the sheet?
I thought it could be this? Right place under Mene, but the Nene part looks different and hit looks to include his first two names







