Manaiakalani Wanaga Day 2

A beautiful start with a karakia sung by our nationwide facilitators.

Beginning the day with Impact Stories had us straight into the mindset of being inspired to create effective practice. Te Hiku shared their Film Festival, something we have thrown around the idea of doing within our own Kahui. We have contacts we could draw on, along with scriptwriting experience in our own school.

St Mary's Catholic School (Gisborne) spoke about how they have embedded the Manaiakalani kaupapa in their kura. Fidelity - Tikanga. They put all new teachers through the DFI to ensure that fidelity, utilising CRT to enable it to happen. They really hone in on the data, not just in terms of student achievement, but the observation data to look specifically at whether teachers are designing with a strong sense of purpose.

 highlighted the impact that the RPI has had on their teachers and learners within their kahui. Making literacy interesting and impactful. Bringing everything together. Pedagogical Content Knowledge.

Manaiakalani Updates

How are going to reinterpret this to our colleagues?

The Summer Learning Journey... There's a real need to plug it to whanau. Having students start the year two terms ahead cannot be ignored.

I love this graphic that shows explicitly how the new curriculum sits inside Learn Create Share. It's not different, It's how it's always sat.

Share is easily facilitated by stopping 5-10 minutes early and the learners picking an aspect to turn into a DLO to share their thinking and next steps quickly. Harnessing the power of technology to share their learning experiences. 

As teachers we need to be using the technology to support our kids ability to use it.

"Outside of our network, schools are marching backwards out of fear of progress."

The approaches we had at the turn of the century, and when computers first began... It is all the same. There was an uproar back when the pencil was created...

It's here. It's progress. We need to facilitate our learners to be confident and capable as they move into a potentially unknown world. It's just another strand of it!

Learning about AI already fits within our current Cybersmart Teaching Programme.

The biggest concern is that some people aren't thinking about the bigger picture of privacy and ethics for our akonga and whanau.

We have teachers who are capable of sharing on this.

Fancy spotting our new head honcho right here!

The Memorandum of Understanding that we all follow:

Tech Updates

We can utilise thissight to find out what is available to us from PB Tech via Manaiakalani.

We really need to convince our WHanau that this is a really great long term deal! 

The support for this will continue into 2030. This is the price that the Trust pays,not whanau pay.

Whanau need to know that they are not getting all the extra stuff.

This is the last bag run that the factory is ever going to make.

The last lot of 9th generation. 

A lease will be around $40.

We need to get onto this. It's free to New Zealand Schools but has Austrlian voice overs. YOu have to actually order this and start again (It's free... so a no brainer!) Kiwi accent coming mid year.

The grant is available to New Zealand schools only. If you have any questions please email us at: admin@pyefoundation.nz

Trying to get rid of all the extra things that plug into TV's. Testing TV's with it all internally built. They're testing glare, print viewablility etc...

No other company is providing Device Care anymore.

This is why we get the cover.

This is how we can educate other teachers and whanau. First thing we need to do is get the Kawa of Care out!

We've just had this done. We need to be really collaborative to ensure that anywhere there are issues we need to keep talking about negating any issues.

MyN4L has been in pilot. There is a toolkit coming up.

Contacts

Easier next year to start up. Haalelujah!

Impact Stories

Russell Dunn from Tamaki College spoke about secondary students at home in a digital world. Leverage Career Pathways and Partnerships. The VUCA (Vulnerable Unpredictible Complex A) world of NCEA. It's not just about the learning, it's about the whanau understanding where it heads and what else can happen in the wider community. 3D printing, laser cutting vinyl printing etc. These are things that we can do at our local Matitiki Centre. It's all about the cogs working together. Whanau, teachers, and teachers. 

The premise is to bring the experts in to work alongside the teachers to deliver learning experiences. Setting our students up for success beyond school.

Danielle Bence from the Horowhenua Cluster spoke about "Mahi Tahi". Working in partnership with local iwi to create a community of learners in which learning is engaging, empowering and success-making for their diverse population. Combined Meetings & Critical Literacy PD. Practice being shared and common practice across the schools. How can we perhaps harness this potential in our kahui?

Research and Development

Eric Dearing (2024) Accumulation of Opportunities Predicts the Educational Attainment and Adulthood Earnings of Children Born Into Low- Versus Higher-Income Households

https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X241283456

We need to make sure that our learners are out the font, riding the wave. Our teachers need to be confident in ensuring they are capable and confident in doing this.

Ragnedda, M. (2020). Traditional Digital Inequalities: Digital Divide. In: Enhancing Digital Equity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49079-9_3

Maggie Farrar (2015) Learning Together: The power of cluster based school improvement https://ipsalliance.eq.edu.au/supportandresources/formsanddocuments/documents/seminar-series-249.pdf

These are collective accountability. We're accountable to our past and accountable for our futures. We all leas and be led, in our professional capacities.

David, C. (2000). Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching. London: Taylor&Francis Books Ltd.

We require PCK (
Professional Content Knowledge). We need to be feeding into the next generatioon.

Adapted from: Sachs, J. (2015). Teacher professionalism: why are we still talking about it? Teachers and Teaching, 22(4), 413–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2015.1082732

Democratic Professionals

Andy Hargreaves (2000) Four Ages of Professionalism and Professional Learning, Teachers and Teaching, 6:2, 151-182, DOI: 10.1080/713698714
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713698714

If we're not careful this can crumble and become deprofessional.

Hodge, S. (2024). Curriculum work and hermeneutics. The Curriculum Journal, 35, 6–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.214

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/curj.214

Teachers are the place where the curriculum gets interpreted snd delivered. They are the place where the tide meets the shore. Our curriculum will only be as good as their interpretation of it.

Our teachers ability to be efficient AND adapatable.

Pantić, N. (2015). A model for study of teacher agency for social justice. Teachers and Teaching, 21(6), 759–778. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2015.1044332

Eunjae Park, Loraine McKay, Suzanne Carrington, Keely Harper-Hill (2024) Using hope theory to understand changes from professional learning in inclusive education https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/berj.4076

Leadership is not the easiest job in the world. How are we accounting and acknowledging all of the above?

Do the teachers know what the pathway is?

a)Sense of purpose

b)Competence

c)Autonomy

d)Reflect and adapt

And do you have systems for these things?

Is there fidelity to the place as well as the pathway?