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Three years ago the government announced their latest plan for collectives of schools to get together and share in the pot of $359 Million to share teachers, resources, and knowledge. Naturally, and rightly, NZEI took the initiative to their members.…
Over the last few nights, I have worked away going through all 61 of the accepted and approved Achievement Challenges that active CoL’s have put out. I spent time going through each one and noting down the key aspects of…
Part of establishing a CoL has been the task of setting an “Achievement Challenge” that all schools in your CoL will aim for and target. In the initial stages, schools were gun ho, with vast varieties of creative innovations for…
The next phase of the privatisation of the education system is in full swing, with a series of schools being lured by the promise of $365million into Communities of Learning. Although there was a slight majority of 93% of NZEI…
I do love it when the Minister writes an open letter. It means she says what she thinks people want to hear, rather than what she actually does when people aren’t looking, taking the leadership stance of “Do as I say,…
After another Ministry of Education hui for principals, a comment was made that the whole fiasco of the Community of Schools / Community of Learning negotiations with NZEI, have left teachers “…with the Deathstar, but we get to choose what…
In relation to Ministry comments at a recent Community of Learning hui for Board of Trustees. “The Community of Learning… is a pathway… to move a student through the pipeline…”