Possibilities for 2022

 Which  Achievement Challenge are you considering as an area of focus in 2022 and why? Include in your WHY both evidence and your own passion/expertise

• No 5: Improv the achievements of  students with additional needs of English/Key Competency using language, symbols and text
• Why: continuing on the collaboration journey, so much to explore, started collaborative journey when teaching in Stonefields, know how how significant it can be to learning for children and colleagues, 
• Carried on when begun at Sommerville, with Silivia and the Tash, both times in a double satellite. Now in single cell, so it looks different again.
• Strategic plan for school, just started on the journey. It looks so different to what experienced before because of geography: school is spaced out over 13 sites, also colleague began to look into our learners and how they can learn through collaborating with each other, learn from your peers is quite powerful.

What learnings from the 2017 - 2021 CoL teacher inquiries have informed or inspired your thinking?

• May have been 2017 as working with Anita at SF and she looked at using PE in literacy learning. This is significant to me as my learners now have physio activities and exercise that need and can be incorporated to learning activities
• Other Blogs: Adeles/Silivia's: as they are my colleagues and having a different take on the inquiry and the procedure. Both teacher's focused on played, but they collaborate when researching and sharing ideas and findings for inquiry: Built a good relationship with 4 or us, including Tash: still going strong today as Tash may be on maternity leave but she still manages to find research for me to read. Adele is always there to bounce ideas off of and collaborate in anything we may suggest.
• Tania Botha: NE  foundation skills
• Devs: influenced as she went on this journey by herself and she did say it was a bit lonely.

How would your work support Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa?

• Manaiakalani is about accelerating and increasing levels of learning: our focus is just that, focusing on the learners needs. Our learners needs are related to breaking the barriers that stop them from learning, not just academic, but the key competencies and becoming a life long learner
• We have used the concept of learn, create share within learning: For example, satellites have begun to use children's passions: the children are learning more about their passion and each others, they create posters or objects related to their passion and then they share with their class mates, but also collaborate with other satellite to share their learning.
• Learn, Create share also relates to gaining knowledge around collaboration and sharing this information with colleagues, creating and adapting things together, in order ot make a plan that works best for our school.
• The concept is about the learners developing skills to live as independent as possible within a community.

Which elements of the extensive Manaiakalani research findings inform or challenge you as you think about this?

• Research does relate to increasing levels of learning , using different scaffolding and support systems. My specific research is connected around collaboration, one very significant eye opener was when Chris Brabeer shared with us a presentation on collaboration with myself and my school COL colleagues. 
• Other collaboration experience : when Tash and myself. joined discussions with Stonefields re using one language, school wide.
• Challenge: changing people's mindset, about the difference between cooperation and collaboration!!!!

How would you like to be supported in 2022 as you undertake this inquiry? 

How would you plan to support your colleagues in your school with THEIR inquiries and/or teaching in the area you are exploring?

• My SLTeam:  as it relates to strategic plan: already doing this with Devs.
• Visiting other schools: to see what collaboration looks like in different places, mainstream and specials schools: tried to do this but COVID, 
• Visit ECE centres: relating to play and organising of staff re collaboration
• Silivia and myself: planning on including collaboration for play and and collaboration activities in the timetable, young children together older and younger children, release days, so we can discuss findings and questions and next steps, other colleagues to continue to collaborating.
• As moving teams next year, into senior sector of the school, need to look to collaobrate wth colleagues as this is a new ares for me.

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