Chris

At Pulp tonight I learnt that everyone else’s new phones take way better photos than my v old one

Completely absurd - but at the very least the closing comments imply the (redacted) substance of the responses was negative.

Better reading, maths results but two new curriculums a massive job - principals Some said they focused on either the new maths or English curriculums, not both, and had more work to do next year.

As the only specialist education reporter left I always appreciate Gerritsen's work, but this needs some distinction between curriculum and professional learning. It seems much of the benefit came from the professional learning connected to the Common Practice Model rather than the curriculum.

The library at Waipapa Taumata Rau | UoA has all the recordings (and are in the process of digitising) and other materials, but particularly poignant is an outline of his proposed thesis. They're currently being exhibited: www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

He came to Aotearoa from Zurich to complete a MA thesis and conducted 40 hours of interviews, but had to return home after developing leukemia and died the next year.

It was moving today to learn about the Dieter Meyer's 1978 interviews with leaders and central figures in the 1975 Māori Land March archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/resources/di...

💯 but it's also heartbreaking because one of the things that came through clearly in my research and others' was the value in tauira Māori being able to connect histories learnt in school and at home

And some of it is just laughably bad. The "Global History" strand starts with the Stone Age is Year 2 and then just tells a history of the Western World picking up the next year where they left off.

The complete elimination of the Understand strand (the "big ideas") also means there is no clear sense of how all this content fits together, which, I guess, is convenient if you don't want your overarching narrative (basically celebration of Western Civilization) to be explicit.

By ignoring the ways Te Tiriti was introduced to manage settler rule students can have no understanding of how and why the 1852 Constitution Act is such a profound breach of Te Tiriti.

The Te Tiriti content (which isn't introduced until Year 4) implies the English text was signed in Feb 1840, that the Māori text is a "translation", and that Te Tiriti was primarily a response to the Musket Wars. This is all nonsense.

One of the most striking features is how out of step it is with contemporary historical scholarship. If "knowledge rich" curricula are meant to centre the knowledge from communities of expertise than this curriculum fails by its own terms.

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

This year I've been teaching on the UoA Waipapa Taumata Rau course. It's been infuriating to see it attacked and misrepresented by ACT and NZ Herald. Alison Jones' piece gives a clear account of what it is, what it isn't, and why it should remain a requirement e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

March 2024 or 2025? I’m losing my grip on this timeline.

There’s so little information of what is actually changing (other than the names of things) it’s pretty safe to say that you will hate it, but time will tell how/why.

George Harrison complaining that the MBE medal was a bit tatty is possibly my on brand George Harrison moment (along with refusing the clean up his vomit in Hamburg).

I remember randomly seeing this on tv when I was 15/16 and it kinda changed my life/politics

Looking forward to it!

This looks great. Looking forward to reading it with my 8 year olds. All his recent efforts to form a band have been thwarted.

This government has been doing DEI on behalf of unqualified white men, as showed by their appointments for The Waitangi Tribunal and the NZ Human Rights Commissioner, all slated as unqualified by officials. End this woke shit.

Teacher-only days continue after Seymour oversteps, Education Minister says Education Minister Erica Stanford says it wasn't David Seymour's place to say teacher-only days would be cut back.

If Erica Stanford wants to win over teachers, I recommend she continues to make her disdain for Seymour clear. She’s never been more relatable.

Sure, but it still grates to hear it described as a “protest”. They were told to “storm the library”. That’s an attack, not a protest.

We can put Destiny Church alongside Nazis as gangs the government is “comfortable” with.

She clearly hates him soooo much

Destiny Church protesters 'went too far' - Luxon Luxon said protesters linked to Destiny Church "went too far" by disrupting Pride events in Auckland, while church leader Brian Tamaki said he told protesters, "I want you to storm the library they're...

So “how far” exactly does Luxon think Destiny Church should have gone?

Fairy tree decorations including tino rangatiratanga flag.

I’ve been watching the schedule waiting to see when the inhabitants of the Ōwairaka fairy house will be going their Treaty Principles Bill submission #nzpol

Sure, but I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with leftists thinking scrapping Epsom would be both funny and possibly bad for Labour. I just get a little tired of the "what the left don't understand is..." discourse.

I don’t see how this is an “own goal”. My understanding is that it’s the Representation Commission who decides what will happen, not “the left”?

Oh yeah, I recently came across their '89 guide for school trustees on school charters and the treaty and was really impressed by it. I should look into the whole project some more.