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Who in the classroom learns the most? The Teachers . ..The way students learn is by teaching others , not by being taught. Watch this video by clicking on the link below The "Purpose of Schools" (an interesting watch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzS5V5-0VsA What is our story? How will we become a change.school and create optimal conditions that are innovative, centred on empowering student agency and creativity?
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Kia Ora Koutou Katoa, Wow time is certainly flying past us as we enter week 4 of term 3. I want to say how amazing all our staff has been, supporting each other through illness and family loss as well as keeping our focus on teaching and learning that promotes student progress and positive outcomes for all. As we continue to be a champion for every child, may we activate those positive RbL (relationships based learning) tools as part of our optimal conditions in the classroom - prior learning, feedback ( task / process / self-regulation) feed forward, cooperative, power sharing. As Rita Pierson shared....... Be that champion every day, every one, all the time.  And if there is one child in your class that continues  to defy the law of relationships, love him/her even more pay more attention to him/her because it may be the only place he/she is told that they are amazing, that they can achieve, that they can aspire to be the very best they can be...... AND is st