Hey #SSchat folk - I'd love to hear your thoughts on the draft social sciences curriculum just released by the NZ Ministry of Education. You have to scroll down to file downloads then select SocialSciences-draft-Oct-2025.pdf.

newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/new-zealand-...

Does anyone know when @fyi.org.nz will be up again?

"The National curriculum isn't a state secret..."

"When you prevent educational leaders, principals, teachers, anyone who is on these advisory groups from consulting with their communities, you're not protecting anything. You're undermining democratic participation."
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Itty Bitty Tītī Committee

Just found this OIA request feed. You can search for any agencies of interest . And this 1 is interesting…
In response to this request about how many Māori and Pacific people they asked to contribute on the SS and Aotearoa histories curriculum, the MoE state they didn’t consider it relevant.

Teacher educators and teacher mentors - what are your best ideas, articles, videos etc to support student teachers developing understanding of behaviour management?
Thanks in advance!
#teachereducation

So many people on the hīkoi today!

Photo credit Keelan Walker

You might want to sit down for this, but it seems a Nat minister lied to us.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Submissions to this name change proposal close in a week, please follow this link and indicate whether you support the correction of the name back to Pito One or if you’d prefer continuing with the incorrect and meaningless spelling of Petone. 😉

www.linz.govt.nz/consultation...

PISA results suggest the best way to improve students' results is to feed them!
Latest PISA study says students who experience food poverty score 2-4 years lower than their peers. NZ scored 2nd worst in the OECD for students missing 1 meal a week and 3rd for 4+meals. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/foo...

Are you leading learning in Aotearoa for years 1-8? Come to ASSEN's 2 day PLD and learn how to teach more than just the basics brilliantly - teaching reading, writing and maths in ways that enrich social studies and histories skills and knowledge.
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“It frickin’ kills me to feel my kid’s first heartbreak. And it’s over kapa haka. I don’t try to solve it. I just hold him. Support him. Tell him I love him, that I’m proud.” — Sisilia Eteuati.

In case y’all are interested, here’s my critical literacy based review of two new Aotearoa history books

www.thesapling.co.nz/reviews-two-...

The government is sending quite a message here by appointing a curriculum working group without a single Māori educator/ expert. Further entrenched by the inclusion of Elizabeth Rātā

www.beehive.govt.nz/release/firs...

I'm reading Patu by Gavin Bishop, and wondered if y'all can answer this?
In the Tangata Whenua section it says:

Over several centuries, horticulture became widespread. Men cleared and dug the land. Women planted and weeded.

Were the gender roles actually as defined as this suggests?

#kikorangi

Do you know anyone who’s interested in becoming a teacher? This webinar will help answer some questions about how it works at Victoria. Please make sure everyone knows secondary teacher education is still happening!

explore.wgtn.ac.nz/teaching-web...

While most talk suggests the election result is a foregone conclusion, it’s actually really close! Your vote will make a difference
We could have a labour/green/TPM coalition if ACT, national and NZ first each drop 1%, the Greens rise 1% and Labour rises 2.1%
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...