by Rebecca Thomas | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Literacy
Stories open up worlds and build imagination for our tamariki. They are significant for our children for various reasons: when you are read to you sit, listen, concentrate and engage your mind; it builds vocabulary and imagination, sentence structures and abstract...
by Cognition Education | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
You become an educator for a reason, it’s a calling, it’s in your soul. Whether you stumbled onto this pathway by accident, or pre-planned the route, it’s undeniably fulfilling but also consuming. Lately we have been on a rollercoaster of changes. How...
by Russell Bishop | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog
Developed in collaboration with Emeritus Professor Russell Bishop and Cognition Education, Relationships First is the latest development for accelerating and sustaining achievement outcomes of indigenous and other marginalised students. In doing so, schools and...
by Cognition Education | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog
The First Thread This blog follows on from our initial article titled 5 Voices and 5 learnings from COVID-19, which was based on our three Kotahitanga online workshops. It details the direct response to the information gathered in Cognition Education’s first...
by Cognition Education | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog
As we celebrate moving out of lockdown, we need to take the time to reflect and build on any lessons learnt. We have this window of opportunity to pause before we default to the pre-COVID norm and respond to the learnings from the distance learning experience. There...
by Steve Saville | May 28, 2020 | Blog
To all principals reading this, an apology and a request, please be patient with me. This blog kicks off by painting a bit of a bleak picture, one that contains information and opinions that will not come as a surprise to any of you and, are probably not what you want...
