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...
Leadership
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...
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,...