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Category Archives: Education
I am asking you to stand by me on this one: The File
Dear reader The File, my final publication, is now available for purchase. It is a publication that, with care, can provide a lift to the primary education system and a surer sense of direction. Not because of what I have … Continue reading
A threshold timetable Part 4 – Mathematics and Conclusion
National standards have gone, but how will schools react, will it just be much the same but minus official national standards? will there be much scratching of heads? or will it be a return to holistic values, our education cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Education
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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A threshold timetable Part 2
Reading continued Yeah-how! National standards gone. Well – all-but. My principal and senior teacher already give me a pretty free rein. I’m going to go for it. Back to me: These are the expanded notes I used as I travelled … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Education
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Networkonnet and Kelvin Davis
About six months ago, I was frustrated with Chris Hipkins missing an opportunity to expose a serious fault in Hekia’s education system. The title of the posting was: If Chris Hipkins can’t do it give it to Kelvin Davis. Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Political
Tagged Education, Education policy, Politics, principals, Schooling
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Brief comment on Wairoa College
I respond to the Wairoa Star front-page article Thursday, July 27, in which the current limited statutory manager has gone and a new one, Lex Hamill, appointed. The Wairoa Star There have been a number of heroes in the Wairoa … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Education, ERO, Ministry of Education, Politics, principals, Schooling
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In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 4
‘Pooh!’ ‘Yes?’ said Pooh. ‘When I’m – when – Pooh!’ ‘I’m not going to do Nothing any more.’ ‘Never again?’ ‘Well not so much. They don’t let you.’ Pooh waited for him to go on, but he was silent again. … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Curriculum, Developmental, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 3
In Part 2, Pooh, apparently disillusioned with his experience with a 21st Century Education, announced to Piglet that though he didn’t know what it looked like, he was just going to try and catch a Good Education because the century … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Education, Schooling
Tagged children, Curriculum, Developmental, Education, Education policy, Schooling, Teachers
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Here we go again: another intervention injustice
I have substantial amounts of information about goings-on at Wairoa College, some of it scandalous, but that can be looked into by the ministerial inquiry I’m calling for, I just want concentrate here on the bureaucratic behaviour around the appointment … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Principals
Tagged BOT, Education, Hekia, Ministry of Education, Politics, principals
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Rangiora High School: attempts to discredit Authority decision: explosive staff meeting: why Hekia resigned: $m of blood money found
This posting begins quietly, setting the scene, one in which a principal and a board are unjustifiably dismissed on the basis of a secret report. In the process, I believe the commissioner compromised the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) which partly … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Political
Tagged Education, Hekia, Ministry of Education, Politics, Schooling, Trickery
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Down to detail now: Hekia in deep trouble
Fight over $12M in assets Rangiora High School board of trustees’ meetings 2014: Allocated funds: Peggy’s utterly proper actions It is now time for exact detail to demonstrate that the appointed commissioner and her boss, Hekia Parata, but mainly through … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Political
Tagged BOT, Education, Hekia, Ministry of Education, Politics, principals, Trickery
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