By Brooke Trenwith Published on 28 March 2024, ERO released a new evaluation report on behaviour in NZ classrooms. Their summary states: “Good...
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Creating Clarity
By Brooke Trenwith To be clear is to be kind. - Brené Brown In a world buzzing with complexity and ambiguity, clarity often stands as a beacon of...
Embracing My Authentic Self: The A Word
By Brooke Trenwith This is what AI came up when I asked it to define autism. I asked politely, using please and thank you. Autism, also known as...
Research vs Lived Experience
By Brooke Trenwith While being research-based experience is important, “Lived Experience” is essential to consider in education as students are...
Supporting Gifted Learners in Aotearoa New Zealand – Stories Worth Sharing
by Deb Walker Drawing from my teaching experiences in New Zealand, Canada, and the UK, it's clear to me that educators in Aotearoa New Zealand stand...
Reviewing your Inclusive Practice – a case study from Medbury School, Christchurch
Brooke Trenwith With thanks to Dave Scott, Principal, for outlining his thoughts National Education Learning Priority (NELP) - Objective 2: Learners...
Trauma-Healing (Trauma-Informed) Practice at Ngātea Primary School
Guest Blog by Neil Fraser, Principal The Challenge We had a growing number of students displaying a lack of self-regulation strategies and social...
Perimenopause Support in the Education Workplace
Okay, so that may be a surprising topic for me to be blogging on, but we need to be talking about it - in every organisation. Look at the stats...
Nuclear Explosion to a Fire Cracker – Using Rewards in the Classroom
The effect of using external rewards on students’ intrinsic motivation This piece was originally submitted as a Position Paper for a post-graduate...
Deciding on strategies
By Brooke Trenwith You may have heard of the controversy surrounding ABA - Applied Behaviour Analysis. This is a broad range of techniques that have...