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ECE, Opinion, Pay equity, Primary
Why Budget 2025 is anything but a vision

It’s often said that a nation’s budget reflects its values. If that’s true, then Budget 2025 tells us undeniably that children, especially our youngest tamariki, are not a priority.

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Community, ECE, Inclusive Education, Physical Education, Primary School Teachers, Principal, Support staff
Top 10 Ako articles from 2024

Thank you to all our Ako Journal readers and contributors this year. Here’s a roundup of our most-read articles published in 2024.

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Opinion, Te reo Māori
Arohamai, mō taku hē, kei te ako tonu a u i te reo Māori 

My journey and personal relationship with my identity is an ever-evolving part of my life. My identity bears the impacts of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty from before I was even born. 

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Akoranga, Leadership, Opinion, PLD, Professional learning & development, Summer 2023
Putting the Educational Leadership Capability Framework into practice as a middle and senior leader

Deputy principal Tania Yorke recently completed her Master of Educational Leadership. She shares what she learnt about developing as a leader and why the Teaching Council’s Educational Leadership Capability Framework is a goldmine of a tool.

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Mark Potter standing in front of blurred green background, smiling
Akoranga, Mark Potter, Professional learning & development, Summer 2023
Learning from others

It is a pleasure to bring you the latest edition of Ako journal. As the new national president, I know I have a lot to learn, so the theme akoranga is not without relevance to me.

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Language, NZCER, Summer 2023, Te reo Māori, Te reo Māori revitalisation
Let’s not forget who reo Māori revitalisation is most important to

Kairangahau Matua (Senior Researcher) at NZCER Nicola Bright shares her thoughts on why we need to put Māori first when we’re talking about te reo Māori revitalisation.

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Akoranga, Leadership, Opinion, Professional learning & development, Summer 2023
Every teacher should have the opportunity to develop their own leadership capabilities

What should you be looking for in a formal effective leadership PLD programme? Victoria University of Wellington professor Kate Thornton provides some of the answers.

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kaiārahi i te reo, Kura, Mana taurite, Māori immersion, Opinion, Pay equity, rumaki, te ao Māori, Te reo Māori
Ensuring access to te ao Māori

In 2022, 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was passed into law, Kaiārahi i te reo won a pay equity settlement, with an average pay increase of 79 percent. Āwhina Kihi tells us what being a kaiārahi means and why the pay increase is such a big deal.

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Futures, Ministry of Education, Opinion, Primary, Spring 2022, Streaming
Don’t stream away my dreams

What is streaming and is it helping or harming our tamariki? Auckland University professor Christine Rubie-Davies gives her view on the problems with ability grouping in Aotearoa.

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COVID-19, Futures, Kāhui Ako, Ministry of Education, NZCER, Opinion, Pūaotanga, Spring 2022, Tomorrow's Schools
Time to learn from each other

As she steps down from her role as Kaihautū Rangahau Chief Researcher at NZCER Cathy Wylie shares some of her wisdom on how we can learn from each other.

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COVID-19, Futures, Liam Rutherford, Spring 2022
Embracing change

As we emerge from one of the hardest winters in recent times, I’m pleased to share this spring edition of Ako, which imagines a brighter future for our tamariki.

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Aotearoa New Zealand's histories, Autumn 2022, Colonisation, History, Liana MacDonald, NZ Curriculum, Opinion, Silencing
The importance of engaging difficult knowledge in schools

Liana MacDonald discusses how mainstream New Zealand society resists difficult knowledge about the past both at sites of historical colonial violence and through mundane interactions between teachers.

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Autumn 2022, Climate change, Conor Twyford, History, NZ Curriculum, Opinion
Walking backwards into our future

What has climate change got to do with teaching our past? NZEI Te Riu Roa Communities Organiser Conor Twyford discusses how, in order to navigate well into our collective future, we need to clearly understand our past.

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Aotearoa New Zealand's histories, Autumn 2022, History, I ngā wā o mua, Liam Rutherford, NZ Curriculum
A welcome change

I’m excited to be sharing this histories issue of Ako with you, focussing on the challenges, impact and importance of studying our past.

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Fonofale, Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann, Winter 2021
“Not another new bloody model of wellbeing”

At a recent conference I attended, I heard a speaker at a workshop enthused at a number of models of health and wellbeing. She ran through a myriad of some very impressive line ups mostly from America and Europe.

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Educultural Wheel, Sonja Macfarlane, te ao Māori, Wellbeing / Hauora, Winter 2021
Global citizenship education – He raraunga o te ao: A Māori perspective

Global Citizenship education (GCED) is UNESCO’s response to the impact of poverty, global warming, inequality and human rights violations which threaten peace and sustainability worldwide.

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Editorial, Liam Rutherford, Wellbeing / Hauora, Winter 2021
Hauora is for everyone

It is great to be able to share this issue of Ako with you. Hauora seems to be the catch phrase of the last couple of years.

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#SchoolStrike, Bronwyn Hayward, Citizenship, Climate change, Environment, Summer 2021
How do we support tamariki as citizens growing up in a chaotic climate?

As a political scientist interested in children’s futures and serving on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), an international science body that produces regular reports on the state of the world’s climate, I worry a lot about our changing climate and the implications for children and future generations.

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activism, Climate change, Environment, Indigenous rights, Kahu Kutia, rangatahi, Summer 2021
E kore au e ngaro / I shall not be lost

Where I come from, the kererū is revered. A food for royalty and women. Our kaumātua describe how the sky would get dark as clouds of kererū flew overhead, sounding like a loud helicopter as they flapped their wings through our echoing valleys. This memory from long before I was born was a sign of abundance.

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Climate change, Editorial, Environment, Just Transition, Liam Rutherford, Summer 2021, Te Maramataka
Looking to the opportunity ahead

I’m not sure if it’s the increase in grassroots movements, or the current government’s desire to highlight climate change, but in the education sector there’s a real thirst to be lifting our game.

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