www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Concerning!

Love this initiative!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Disgusting change

Stanford played a role in the writing of the senior English curriculum, reviewing documents and providing feedback to Ministry officials on at least 10 February, 14 March and 27 March.

@chewienz.bsky.social www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/tears-w... Astounding

When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience. It is a breach of trust.

open.substack.com/pub/aecnz/p/... My my my

Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!" Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource. When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.

"research has shown that merit pay produces negative consequences without the positives promised" Wow,so pleased NZ are heading this way - not!

Erica Stanford wants to link your child’s academic performance to their teacher’s ability to make their mortgage payments.

A MUST listen. You want a summary of the devastating list of recolonisation of our education. waateanews.com/2025/11/05/b...

Horrific nonsense like this is apparently now ok. Vomitous racist drivvle.

MJ was challenged when he referred to the bs phonics data as proof the changes were working. He responded with anger. He wasn’t invited to speak about boys achievement. He chose to do so. His presentation put boys poor achievement down to the strong female culture in schools. Nothing else.

newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/b... What a numpty

Love this slight mispronounced word from a student - indiGENIUS for indigenous! #UpLiftEd

What the actual...? And I say that as someone who was fascinated by history at this age level, as some kids are, but even then would have found it bizarre to be being taught it in school in this way.

I'm off to the @aec.org.nz conference today, #UpLiftEd So excited to hear from so many excellent speakers and meet up with intelligent, like-minded folk. Ngā mihi nui o te Ata koutou!

Tomorrow more curricula get released. There has been no consultation. As a result, voices have been missing from their development. That includes the voices of students. Here, two Pasifika learners show us what hasn’t been heard.

Levin is out! Ka pai ō mahi! #nzed #nzei

Today, I strike. My position was disestablished recently - a position stretched thin already to support multiple schools, teachers, & students with literacy now no longer exists. Next year there will be no equivalent position, tamariki will suffer, & teachers will have even more to contend with.

Primary school teachers: The new new English and Maths curricula, written by some bloke in Australia and someone in England (no, really) have been released. Bin all the work you’ve done this year to get your heads around what you foolishly thought were the final versions. Erica had better ideas.

Confirmation today that the new junior English and Maths curricula that became official policy this year are being changed. In secret. No consultation.

Yeah, Erica Stanford is full of it.

Recent Publications radicalscholarship.com/speaking-tru...

So, what does it mean if our community made the wrong choice and voted to get rid of Māori wards? Can we appeal? Or do we have to move?

When you come at inclusion via the early years idea of creating an 'enabling environment' then what happens is that you adapt the setting to suit the children rather than trying to adapt the children to suit the setting. 'The child is not for the school; the school is for the child." #EduSky

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Curriculum progress in Aotearoa explained in 176 words. #nzpol

Tell me Stanford is acting in a way you expect a Minister to act. Go on. Tell me. Tell me Stanford, with no education experience, is acting in a way that leads to the creation of good education policy. Go on. Tell me.

Excellent question. The violations of democratic process are egregious and increasingly brazen and have moved this beyond curriculum — this is about how we want power to behave in this country. I am not a journalist. This stuff hasn’t been hard to find.

Just think, English teachers of Aotearoa New Zealand: there was a March 2025 version of the rewritten senior English curriculum that didn't fully embrace Rata's determination to "end decolonisation's success". But we got the version that literally erased Māori and Pacific authors.

I think there is merit in not making this all about pedagogy. The curriculum changes have got through because of the continual violation of democratic process, with the knowledge of the Minister. If that is going to stand, none of us are safe anymore. Surely, everyone cares about that.