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...
Leadership
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...
Working effectively with your strengths
By Brooke Trenwith Strengths-based approaches are nothing new. In the inclusion field we have often spoken about the importance of working within...
EXTENDED DISC® Profiling
By Brooke Trenwith In 2022, I was accredited in Extended DISC profiling after using “free” profiles for a number of years. Like most things, you get...
Measuring your impact through a Leadership Circle 360 Profile™
By Brooke Trenwith “How are my behaviours and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our organisation’s performance?”...
Getting the Paperwork right: An Acceleration Policy
Acceleration, grade-skipping, dual enrolment, jumping, skipping…Whichever name it is called, it is an effective provision for gifted students. And...
Getting the Paperwork right: A Gifted Policy
This post has been adapted from an original article in NZAGC Tall Poppies Magazine in November 2016. Like most aspects of education, there are...
All in the waka – effective goal setting
By Brooke Trenwith Humans are teleological (move towards a goal or purpose) so we biologically search for things to aim for. A goal (aka aim,...
Rising from the Trauma of 2021
How do we rebuild trust and rise from the trauma of a Covid world? Our brains are wired for connection. Trauma rewires them for protection. If this...