My friend Guy Claxton has this book coming out on 26 May. It's a book that challenges "the assumption that mind and body are separate, revealing the interconnectedness of the ‘bodymind’ and drawing on research in embodied cognition to rethink intelligence, learning and teaching."

This is happening on Wednesday and Thursday. "The Waitangi Tribunal has granted urgency to an inquiry into the government's decision to scrap school boards' legal duty to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and reset Te Mātaiaho, the New Zealand Curriculum."

The pastoral imagination that could only see wetlands as waste is not unrelated to the policy imagination that can only see achievement where it can be sequenced, benchmarked, and ranked. bevanholloway.com/before-lands...

Kia ora koutou! Needed a break so went to ground. But I'm back. And I'm raring to go. This year, it's all about positivity: I'm turning towards the people who are doing good things with learning, with democracy, with life. (If you've been following me, you know what those are). Let's go!

“To use these tools well — to not be used by them — you need exactly the things we’re told are becoming obsolete. A broad liberal arts education. Domain expertise. Critical thinking. A feel for what humans actually sound like. The ability to spot when something seems off.“

Erica’s claim to have fixed maths is an open goal for any journalist.

On display from both politicians and ideologues hacking at the curriculum is a deep contempt for genuine engagement with systems of knowledge and critical thinking. It‘s one thing to not understand learning; it‘s another to forcibly cut children off from these opportunities. bsky.app/profile/maet...

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.

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.

There is a way to delay the effects of this. And it’s in the Bill.

Shame on the govt for passing this Bill. The disregard of democratic process is alarming.

A short wrap of the conference, plus the video of the complete keynote from Professor Pasi Sahlberg.

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

Heads up OIA warriors. Erica Stanford’s office are up to all kinds of tricks to delay or deny requests. Eg. Despite me providing the link to an interview, typing out specific quotes, & asking factual questions about each quote, they are claiming it will be refused under section 18(g) of the Act.

“The govt claims school boards are no place for upholding Te Tiriti, and wants to change the law to ensure there’s no requirement on boards to do so. Rahui Papa says the proposal flies in the face of sector consultation……and puts the educational success of tamariki at stake.” #nzpol

*are leading

Erica Stanford’s end of year report, written by 500 NZ teachers, is a good read. In other news, her office is refusing to process an OIA where I ask for numbers of educators who support her, since she keeps referring to them. Having quite a good back and forth about it!

At preschool today one of our practitioners had made a painted 'bonfire' in a tuff tray for the children to put out with water sprayers. It was such a lovely example of creativity + building grip strength through #play! One of the parents is a fire fighter so it made the play very personal too. ☺️

I see Erica was still quoting her dodgy (false) phonics data in the House today, this time in relation to Te Tiriti.

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.

Committee stage part 1 for the Regulatory Standards Bill happening whanau. First impressions, based on questions: what a shoddy piece of legislation.

Lawrence Xu-Nan on fire in the House last night, moving that the Education and Training Act should be renamed either: The Education and Training Recolonisation Act, or The Education and Training Atlas Puppets Act

"Knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing." Freire calls this the 'banking system of education' This is what Stanford/Seymour are doing to our children

“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Hi, my name is Erica Stanford, and instead of having the guts to got through the proper regulatory process and make my case to the sector, I'm going to use sneaky, undemocratic means to strike at the heart of what it means to be a learner in New Zilund, and then hide behind my media mates.

Today, we found out it's even worse.

Utterly shameful the Ministry of Education is still calling the curriculum Te Mātaiaho, a name gifted to them by Wayne Nata to help capture the central place of Te Tiriti in it.

If he's had heaps of calls from parents worried that their child's education might involve a karakia, but hasn't had heaps of calls from parents worried he might have been snapchatting students while shielding Tim Jago from consequence... ... well, I've less confidence in their parental concerns.

Latest OIA response shows that Erica Stanford's claims of union bullying were based on one conversation with one teacher. She did nothing about it.

@aec.org.nz - A public service announcement!

Let's be clear: the removal of Te Tiriti from the Education and Training Act is an attack on the human rights of every child in every school.

"I've had racist liars call me to moan about something that doesn't happen, therefore every child in new zealand will be made more ignorant by my racist, anti-learning idiocy" Fuck david seymour. Fuck every single act supporter. They are all without value.

It's starting to look like a lot like the only ACT line item in the "coalition agreement" is "erase Māori" #nzpol

Elizabeth Rata wanted it gone, and so it is done.