Anne Sinclair

            Manaiakalani Leaders Study Tour Our MDTA class were privileged to be invited to spend the morning in and around the learning Hubs and to be inspired and challenged by the leadership team on the way they do things around there. The hubs provided a view of what is possible in their schools and opened up dialogue for thinking differently about how they will do things now. The session on collaboration and culture opened up cans of worms about confronting our own practice and the practices of others, but howwe can work through issues to provide better working and learning conditions for learners. Important to deal with the elephant in the room before we have a herd of them! How generous Sarah and her team were with their time, ideas and spirit. Thank you Stonefields for an inspiring morning. http://www.stonefields.school.nz/page/Vision/

                                                                 https://sites.google.com/a/manaiakalani.org/manaiakalani---google-class-onair/ Manaiakalani Google Class On Air is about to go live. It is live!  Four of our MDTA Graduates and one TeachNZ Graduate feature in this exciting project. It is a first anywhere in the world and will provide a lens for people to actually see, hear and understand teaching and learning with real children, real teachers, not actors. These brave teachers are exposing their practice so that others may see the complete cycle of the teaching and learning, from the planning, to a film of the direct instruction, the learning experiences, the artefacts, the feedback, the reflections and the work shared on Blogs. The first series will feature two secondary teachers teaching maths and biology and three primary teachers teaching literacy and writing. The project will be linked to the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland to showcase teach