Communities of Practice - Tuesday 8 September

Our second Community of Practice sessions took place last Tuesday (8th September). It was a wonderful opportunity to build on work on Cultural Relationships for Responsive Pedagogy and Inclusive Student-Led Learning from earlier in the term.

Lynette, Claire (from Poutama Pounamu) and Mitch (ASL) led some robust and gritty conversations in the morning session on Cultural Relationships, supported by karakia leaders - Maria for Island Bays School (Karakia Timata) and Tineke, Christina and Kate from Owhiro Bay School & Kindy (Karakia mo te Kai). Kia ora to all of them for being so willingly to lead and share.

Chrisse (Core Education) and Catherine (ASL) delved deeper into the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning in the afternoon, offering the opportunity to connect with new people across the schools in our Kāhui Ako and think about our own practice during the lockdown using the UDL framework.

Thank you to all the participants and presenters from both sessions for coming with such enthusiasm. We are looking forward to our third sessions on Tuesday, 27th October (Term 4, week 3).

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