October of this year marked my 10 year anniversary at Hobsonville Point Secondary School (HPSS) where I started as a foundation staff member...

Today's post is a screenshot from one of my Google Classroom's grade books (student names removed). This year I have really focused ...

Hobsonville Point Secondary School (HPSS) uses an advisory model for pastoral care (informed by the work of   Dennis Littky  and Eliot Levi...

Today's photo is of a takahē on Tiritiri Matangi, the bird sanctuary which is located in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, 3.4 km east of...

One of the things that frustrate me about our current education system is that it has a bias toward using writing as a means to represent le...

It's been a little while since I've blogged regularly so to get back in the habit, I thought I would share one photo every day for t...

To have spent so many months working from home in a job that usually involves so much face to face time, has made 2021 feel like a bit of an...

The New Zealand Curriculum demands that we develop 'self-managing' learners, yet how many of our students were unable to do so witho...

Just three months ago I was hopping across Europe visiting museums and art galleries. It seems unthinkable that so much has changed as a res...

I realised with a shock yesterday how little I've blogged this year! So, I have set a personal challenge for myself, 10 posts in 10 days...