By Brooke Trenwith It’s hard to describe the profound impact Robyn Boswell had on so many lives, but I find myself trying to do just that as I...
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...
The effect of using external rewards on students’ intrinsic motivation This piece was originally submitted as a Position Paper for a post-graduate...
By Brooke Trenwith You may have heard of the controversy surrounding ABA - Applied Behaviour Analysis. This is a broad range of techniques that have...
By Brooke Trenwith Strengths-based approaches are nothing new. In the inclusion field we have often spoken about the importance of working within...
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...
By Brooke Trenwith “How are my behaviours and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our organisation’s performance?”...
Acceleration, grade-skipping, dual enrolment, jumping, skipping…Whichever name it is called, it is an effective provision for gifted students. And...
This post has been adapted from an original article in NZAGC Tall Poppies Magazine in November 2016. Like most aspects of education, there are...
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,...