by Russell Bishop | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog
North-East teachers are supported by North-East leaders in North-East schools. North-East schools are those where all students are successful. To do so, North-East schools support and focus on those students who have been traditionally marginalised by ineffective...
by Russell Bishop | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog
One of the major questions facing us in education is why educational ‘failure’ and ‘success’ often appears to be differentiated along ethnic, gender, socio-economic and/or racial lines rather than what is commonly expected; outcomes being determined by individual...
by Russell Bishop | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
Educators need to address educational inequalities by including those currently marginalised from the benefits of education into the conversation that is learning. Educators can do this by creating extended family-like contexts for learning in classrooms and learning...
by Russell Bishop | Sep 22, 2020 | Blog
Student voice tell us who they need their teachers to be. Imagine the impact upon us if we were not able to form positive relationships with our teachers and if those relationships that we did form were mostly negative and even toxic. Yet that is what Maori and other...
by Cognition Education | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
Back to basics Do these sayings sound familiar? Do you cringe thinking back to timed tests we used to do at school? Test yourself now. You have 10 seconds only to give the answer to the following number sentences: 9 + 5 = 3 x 8 = 4 + 7 = 5 + 8 = 9 + 5 = 7 x 6 = 6 + 5...
by Cognition Education | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog
“There is a huge elephant standing in most math classrooms: it is the idea that only some students can do well in math. Students believe it, parents believe it and teachers believe it. The myth that math is a gift that some students have and some do not is one...
