What is the formal process for a mihi whakatau?

My first experience of a Mihi Whakatau was when I was welcomed into Merrin School where I now work. 

A mihi is a formal way of respecting people by acknowledging their mana and tapu (dignity and sacredness). It is a sign of hospitality and respect to mihi on important occasions.

Being such a new experience , I wanted to find out more so I felt more comfortable in the process and was ensuring I was respectful as we all went through such a special time together. 

A break down of the full formal event is here 

How can we learn about Matariki?

What a wicked resource! Thanks to http://www.thetereomaoriclassroom.co.nz/

Making a difference - strategic planning and technology and leading change!!

Personalising Learning

Technology in Education - The First 200 000 years

Ruben R. Puentedura

All language is generic until its framed by experience. 

What does it mean to teach collaboratively?
What are our experiences of this?

What is a one to one program? 
- accessible
- adaptable
- mobility
- flexible

Issues that face us in this journey 

• pedagogy
• community
• buy in 
• child safety 
• management
• types of devices 

Eight Elements for Success - Strategic Planning for Success 

• Vision - articulating the why TED Talks - the golden circle of why. 
• Student Learning - the way we are delivering the curriculum to change how we think about teaching and learning. 
• Team - establish a team within and across schools. Invite resistant ones to set the pace of change. 
• Professional Learning - personalising the journey 
• Community 
• Financial Sustainability - what opportunities are there to create a equal opportunity
• Measurement - talk about where you are and where you want to head to with community
• Environment Design  - infrastructure, applying SAMR model in how they are being used. 

All agreed - the why must come first - leading change.
What would come next and why?

Mapping our Journey 

• Free
• Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Visionary Leadership - shared leadership - individual leadership - community engagement

APPs for us to try;

Te Whaka Raki 

Apple Classroom 

App Store 

Teacher Tools

Papamoa 

Maori Culture and Language 

iTunes U

Ways to develop Professional Capital 

Community of Practice

- everybody talking about their practice

- sharing tech that works

- shared common language gained 

Notes from Papamoa School - Bruce Jepson 

Why have a vision - why does a school see, hear, feel a particular way? 

See - how student holds themselves

Hear - the vision of your school

Feel - the vision of your school 

Students and their potential - believing that our students can do anything if opportunities exist for them. 

Be real!!

Create your classroom in Minecraft. - through mathematics develop an online view for new families thinking of coming to your school. 

Community 

- capturing and measuring the quality of works being created 

- these are presented through reporting schedules. 

- The more you share the more on board they will be

Use of animations to teach te reo 

live broadcasts  

Finances 

Change thinking about finances - think laterally

- teaching & learning & thinking budget - to impact teaching and learning, raising student achievement. - coding still applied. 

- Run PLD for other schools - charge out 

- roll out and roll in 1 year, plan 

- business decisions to access the resources

Modern Pathways to Raising Maori Achievement

Janelle Riki
South Region Team Leader

tinyurl.com/avonheadclusterBOT

Invited  to consider looking through Janelle's  lens
Russell Bishop research on Maori achievement

Demystifying MLE or Modern Learning Mindsets

MODERN = creating something now, taking into account what we know from the from the past, with considerations for the future

environments tailored for our students right now, understanding the demands of the future for our kids.

If they are engaged they will achieve!

He ahuru mowai

a place to come home to 

What have we done today to enable kids to be who they are?

accepting - inclusive - responsive

How do you respond to your kids needs. They are all different and respond differently. 

We need to help them respond to the school community

empower them for what they need for the future

As reflective teachers we ask every day, 500 times a day

Why am I doing this I?

Is it really make a difference?

what's the purpose and who is it for?

If the answer starts with we or me - its wrong!

Don't throw out what is working

The 'C' Words 

Creative

Confident - teach the difference between confident and cocky. I know who I am, bilingual and proud of who I am and where I come from

Capable - problem solvers, know how to learn for themselves

Collaborative

Connected - 

Competitive

Culturally Responsive

If you suck at reading writing and math when in the day do you get to feel good?

Walk through the school as a Maori person. Is it cool to be Maori at your school?

Can you see and hear Maori as you go through. 

Whanau hui - every term or more so it is genuine

is there a set agenda or is it genuinely to hear the voice of whanau

Technology can help students develop the skills needed to participate and success in a modern world.

Relationships with kids will change the way we meet and respond to individual children's needs

Perception is everything...

Take a step forward everyday to make a difference for every child. 

Provoking thinking ...

Is learning a consequence of teaching?

If all of the kids are not getting there are we doing enough?

If every child in our school is not successful is our school successful?