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2022

Changing roles: A collaborative practice impact story	Disruptive educators and quality learning design	Everyone belongs... don't they?
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable	Matariki - Our past our future	What is the metaverse (and why should educators in Aotearoa care)?

2021

An unexpected journey through eSports	Aroha: Breathing life into Tātaiako and Tapasā	Equity, te reo, and doing the right thing
Finding your voice in a digital world	Games-based learning: the door to equity through agency	Honouring the gift of student voice
Impact project: Integrating the curriculum	Learning through play and assessment	Queer, Maori and young: What it means for teaching
Raising the equity flag	Streaming - The unexamined wallpaper	Understanding HiAko
uLearn21: Thriving individuals and communities	uLearn21: Thriving individuals and futures	uLearn21 reflections: Thriving individuals and communities

2020

Children's agency a champion and a model for advocacy	Distance learning - Thoughts on inclusive design	Does pronunciation matter
Engaging junior learners and whanau from home	Experience deep learning	Five tips for connecting with your students through video
Future ready Bringing your graduate profile to life	Gaming up your te reo Maori	Good teaching is like good cooking
Growing shared leadership and bicultural understandings through whakatauki	How to make the most of a virtual conference	Imagine a rainbow the arts and learning
In pursuit of ora	Learning at home: Start with relationships	Online conferences: An in-depth example of getting value for you and your team
Powerful storytelling using Google Earth for web	Real time reporting Revisiting and rethinking	So you're the teacher now
Talanoa Mai: Pacific early learning services engaging online	Te Whariki at home: Strategies for supporting young children's learning	Teens learning from home: What to consider
Thinking differently: Distance learning in senior primary	Wellbeing and resilience in Aotearoa - Act now!	Young innovators rise

2019

Auahatanga Innovation	Becoming culturally courageous	Inside-out learning
Instigating sprints to support transformational change and innovation in schools	Kirirarautanga Citizenship	Make the most of uLearn19
Recognising authentic context in digital technologies	Rocket science	Spiral of inquiry: It's a new year, should we start again?
The continuing consequences and impacts of colonisation	Time to get real with reporting	Transformation theory: A theory of adult learning
Voices from the Pacific - Lost in translation	Why do Maori get their own hui again?

2018

A personal story of leadership for learning	Are you engaging with the New Zealand Curriculum?	Beyond the tip of the iceberg
Building relationships through letting go of control	Building the capacity for organisational change	Destination Texas - Disruptive education as a means for student agency and inclusivity
Digital fluency literacy or technology. What's the difference?	DT in DT and HM Design thinking in the Digital Technology and Hangarau Matihiko curricula	E kore e pau te ika unahi nui - Restoring the holistic wellbeing of Maori boys through connection and innovation
edSpace Our networking frontier	Engagement visibility mischief	Four effective ways to learn virtually in real time
Going back to the island	Hey let's be careful out there	How to swim naked in the goldfish bowl
How welcoming are your school environments	If you don't lead with small data you'll be led by Big Data	Learning to crawl in the Maori world
Level up your inclusive practice	LMS or LRS It takes two to tango	Making a start with student data analysis
Making diversity visible for gender and sexuality inclusive schools	Nothing about us without us Student wellbeing	Preparing the next generation for the algorithmic age
Should we review our curriculum?	Student agency and inclusivity: Four Texan schools	Supporting education transformation and innovation through Agile
Talking really matters	Texan approaches to learning Aotearoa applications	The catch 22 of targeted support
The E in E Learning is for Empathy	The School that Story built	The ties that bind
There is POWER in being CONNECTED	To reo ki te raki to mana ki te whenua	Towards excellent user support
Treaty based multiculturalism	Two free time tools that I use everyday	Weird, why wouldn't they ask me?
What's your point of difference?	What kind of feedback do you give?	Where did my resilience go?
Words words words

2017

Change beliefs and the F words	Circle time at Garibaldi Highlands School	Cook Islands language week
Coverage congestion and curriculum	Creating culturally safe organisations	Framing a powerful professional learning response
Getting the most out of uLearn17	Hangarau Matihiko E tipu e rea	Harmful digital communications and schools
He rereke tenei i tena Each has its own uniqueness	iCubed How design thinking develops lifelong learners	Introducing Catalyst to Coordinators of Inquiry
Learning from mental health	Learning in leaps and bounds	Manaakitanga The story of two schools
Middle leadership matters	My reo journey continues	Once upon a time in 2017
Our history matters to our learning	Pasifika language weeks - Why should we celebrate them	Some summer holiday reading
Spirals of Inquiry BC tour: Live blogging series	Te Puna Matauranga Maori	Ten trends in education 2017
The four most significant shifts in modern pedagogy	The limits of my language mean the limits of my world	Universal Design for Learning in curriculum planning and lesson design
What do you use your Moodle for

2016

A musical metaphor for personal professional learning	A new era of professional development	A simple tool to help you reflect
A stranger in a strange land	A teacher to remember	An invitation to play
Asking the questions	Avoiding the snake oil	Banish the gatekeepers and bring forth the creators
Behavioural economics and education	Beyond the obvious	Big Data and analytics can change education in three positive ways
Blobs and cupcakes Learning about design	Bright eyes What does it mean to have a Pasifika lens	Building collaboration Chicken or egg
Can e learning be better learning	Can I use it?	Can we create conditions for transformation?
Clearing the clutter and igniting innovation through collaborative inquiry	Computer science and the benefits of learning to think like a computer	Contributing to your community as a non scientist using iNaturalistNZ
Conversations with a Gen Z teen	Creating an innovative learning environment in a single cell classroom	Developing warrior scholars Rethinking success
Digital tools for connected schools	Do we need to change the mindset of school reunions	Eight years 800 videos and 8 million page views
Emerging leadership Becoming a chief through service	Enabling students to become citizen scientists	Encouraging collaboration among educators
Engaging Maori students and whanau in future focused education	Every starfish story matters	FASD - An invisible disability
Feeling you need to have that conversation	Focusing the future of education through inquiry	He aha te mea nui o te ao
Hoki atu ki to maunga Return to your mountain	I am a citizen of Facebook	I Too Am Auckland
If it s important to you it's important to me	Internal evaluation How can boards of trustees review their effectiveness	Is Maori representation Maori privilege
It begins with the big people	Keep the fear off the set	Leadership in a permanent crisis
Learning through play	Let's hear it for the boys	Literacy should wear a superhero cape
Mahi kainga vs Kainga mahi Homework vs work at home	Making it safe to fail as you build your Community of Learning	Managing your Cloud based systems
Memes for change Getting out of the CAVE	Mirror and window contexts for learning	My brain is in my bum
Navigating the flood and avoiding the fog of information overload	On the path to literacy through a pair of shoes and smelly socks	Pay attention to the task
PD and change management	Personalising student devices	Readiness is all Building change readiness in organisations
Red Teaming school change	Reflections of a life long learner	Reimagining Professional Learning 2016
School charters Walking the talk	Seriously what is school for?	Space invaders is not a video game
Sticks and stones	Supporting students who have dyslexia	Taking a fresh look at your learning space
Talanoa tips with Pasifika learners	Technology - so much more than just making	Ten Trends 2016
The affordances of digital technology	The curse of the bell curve	The effect we have
The evolution of why	The goldfish and the gate	The iceberg of outcomes
The impact of the language we use in education	The real lives of five years olds at school	The value of experiential learning
Three tips for becoming a digitally fluent educator	Time to shine	Tips for getting the most out of your conference experience
Tips to start the new year	Top tips for working in a virtual team	Transforming learning
Two tips for managing your Cloud based platforms	Unpacking UDL Differentiation and adaptation	Using iNaturalistNZ in Science
Weaving passions with work	What are we reading 2016	What do you want to be when you grow up
Who navigates change	Will innovative learning environments work for everyone	Will my child get lost in an innovative learning environment
Bringing imaginative stories to life in Northland schools	Capturing the 'voice' of the learner	Story Hui – a design for social good

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