Spring 202214 Sep 2022
Built in – the future of inclusive education
In the future, inclusive education won’t be bolted on to the system, it will be built in.
Summer 202021 Feb 2020
To literacy and beyond
School librarians talk about how they serve the varied needs of their communities.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Students owning success
Student agency is changing the way children learn – enhancing local curricula and parent and student voice. It has particular relevance to individualising learning for children with additional needs.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Fully integrated
One of the most important things for children with additional needs to be able to access the curricula and to thrive at school is having huge support behind them. That includes from the school and whānau communities and from school leaders, support staff, teachers and itinerant staff.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Let the uniqueness of the child guide us in our mahi
Kura in the Manawatū and Horowhenua are shining examples of inclusivity, in a context of some hope that more resources are coming to support culturally competent practices everywhere.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Education for all
Robert Martin has become the public face of why a human rights take on inclusive education is needed. Born with a brain injury that made his early life difficult, he now travels the world asking hard questions of governments about their efforts to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Seeing the difference
Inclusivity in ECE is increasingly seen as an opportunity to improve teaching practices and engage children’s learning.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
He waka eke noa – we are all in this together
When researching a good kura for our older son, we sought a school with genuine commitment to biculturalism and the environment, a diverse roll with ngā ākonga from a variety of backgrounds, and modern systems for encouraging positive behaviour.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Now is the time for human rights-based education
The trouble with “inclusive education” is that it can become a slogan, a mantra, a label for government policy, that imposes extra burdens on teaching professionals.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
Thinking about what is normal has changed over time and place
When we think about diversity, and who we mean when we talk about diverse people, depends a lot on who and what we think of as normal.
Summer 201928 Jan 2019
We are responsible for making education inclusive for all
This edition of Ako begins our year with a focus on inclusion and what this really means for our tamariki and the adults who work alongside them.
Winter 201827 Jul 2018
Understanding, recognising and knowing
Across the country, teachers report that there are more children with high learning needs and the resources and funding to help these children are over-stretched. Education professionals talk here about how they deliver the curriculum to children with learning needs.
Winter 201827 Jul 2018
We are all in this waka together
Janice Jones, deputy principal at Karori West Normal School, says the most important thing about being a truly inclusive school, in which every child thrives, is that the whole school is in the waka together.
Helen Collins, Inclusivity, Maths, NZ Curriculum, Video, Winter 201816 Jul 2018
DMIC and Inclusive Practices
Collins is a teacher at Corinna School in Porirua. She is passionate about inclusive teaching and learning practices., and is a practitioner of the Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities (DMIC) pedagogy.