2022 Manaiakalani wānanga

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 Firstly - much kudos and respect to Alida Maritz and the other Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers for their sharing today. It was awesome to see Alida up on stage sharing her project, Survival Kete for New Teachers, at the Manaiakalani 2022 wānanga today. She has created a valuable tool for teachers - especially those who are beginning teaching in NZ.

The inquiry projects were a highlight of the day. Alongside the teachers' Survival Kete, a couple of sites that would be really useful for our school are Read Between the Lines for comprehension activities for our learners and Algebros is a tool for maths learning - also a really good looking site. 


Some other take outs and things to think more about
from today:
  • as leaders we need to check implementation, check theory and check ourselves and our confirmation biases. 

  • Implementation journey of a self organised solution... 
    where light blue is how we got there from the data, what 's underpinning the implementation journey and dark blue is what was going to work for our kids.


  •  where being an adaptive expert is having routines that work well and being able to change it up. Like a chess Grand Master.
  • share edpotential with our teachers.
  • From looking at the observation data - ensure we are changing up the texts are children are reading and talking about
  • Learn how to use the observation tool and look at where our sharp reading strategies fit in
  • It seemed that some of the things talked about today were in line with much of what we discussed at our strategic planning staff meeting this week which is reassuring




So many resources (copied from wānanga slides)

Existing Resources and Support

Links to Resources



Learning from each other - successful 2022 PLD


  • Cluster Teacher Only Days

  • Cluster PLGs

  • Cluster PLD

  • Cluster Staff meetings

  • T3 nationwide staff meeting

  • School leader meetings

  • Literacy leader meetings

  • Education tours (to visit other clusters)


Resourcing for Thinking Aloud in Reading











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