The Weight and Urgency of Educational Change Yesterday, I blogged about the sweeping changes currently overtaking education—changes implemen...

When Change Feels Like a Weight  Trying to Prove a Point – But Missing the Heart Right now, we are facing a government intent on proving som...

In The Beginning When I first started whole-class teaching a few years ago, I began to think more about connected texts. Many of the texts t...

The narrowing of the curriculum "winners and losers" Over recent years, significant changes have taken place within New Zealand’s...

One of the important elements of the scope and sequence is the intention to correct students' understanding of the equals sign, or hopef...

Addressing the Educational Epidemic Recognising the Crisis - We are at tipping point We are facing a significant educational epidemic that h...

Language and communication are fundamental to how we gather information about our world and express our understanding. This blog post focuse...