Inspiration & Innovative Practice

16 young people have graduated from the Campus Connections Aotearoa programme, a 12-week youth mentoring scheme for young people enrolled in alternative education in West Auckland.

Five school sector projects and one ECE sector project will receive a share of the $1.4 million allocated to the next round of Teaching and Learning Research Initiative projects.

How much longer can schools meet their students’ needs and remain innovative and exciting alongside persistent under-funding. JUDE BARBACK visits Gate Pa School in Tauranga to get a sense of one school’s efforts to provide great opportunities in an increasingly difficult educational climate.

Year 9 student Willa McLachlan shares the findings of her science fair project which compared reading on a device with reading on paper to determine the effect it had on comprehension.

More than 450 local primary students are about to get hands-on experience with science at the University of Auckland.

Professor John Hattie returned to his old stomping ground on Monday night to challenge educators’ thinking around what really works in education.

More than 1,000 schools and 32,000 students throughout New Zealand have signed up to become community guardians as part of an initiative that will turn classrooms into volunteer armies.

Education Central talks to Microsoft’s Deirdre Quarnstrom about the opportunities for powerful learning experiences that teachers can explore with using Minecraft in their classrooms.

A new pilot will see learners able to access The Network for Learning’s (N4L) Managed Network from home.

Dr Noeline Wright has observed the development of one of New Zealand’s most progressive high schools, Hobsonville Point Secondary School since the very beginning.