Manaiakalani and Learning and Change Networks New Zealand

The Manaiakalani Cluster has been working with the Learning and Change Networks to support schools around New Zealand. They have made this video to give an overview of what is being achieved in the LCN schools. At 1:07 we see Stonefields School featured and at 3:07 a brief glimpse of how Manaiakalani is actively supporting the Kaikohe Cluster in the far north.

 

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What is Learning and Change Networks? 

A group of schools/kura and communities working together to grow capability and to accelerate achievement of priority learners in ways that recognise cultural diversity and that grows innovative and effective 21st century learning environments.

Schools fight for e-education - One News

Manaiakalani has been supporting a cluster of schools in the Mt Roskill area - Ako Hiko - to follow a similar journey to the one we are on.

This weekend TV One featured Wesley Intermediate and the Ako Hiko cluster on the news and mention was made of Manaiakalani during the item.

Click below to watch the segment:

21st Century Learning in Kaikohe - Festival of Education

The Manaiakalani schools have been supporters of three schools in the Kaikohekohe area over the last year and were very pleased to hear news of their Chromebook rollout day in February. This article gives some insight into the journey of Ohaeawai School, Tautoro School and Kaikohe West School.

We have hosted their teachers in our schools and worked with their principals and lead teachers from time to time in Auckland.  Richard Johnston (Panmure Bridge School) , Helen King (Pt England School), Jenny Oxley (Manaiakalani Education Trust) and Dorothy Burt (Manaiakalani Education Programme) have at different times travelled to Kaikohe to provide support.

Click here to read more

Professor Stuart McNaughton with Kim Hill

Kim Hill interviewed Prof Stuart McNaughton on Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning Programme, Saturday 15 February 2014.
The Manaiakalani education programme was a discussion point at times during this robust interview.

The programme notes say; "Reading and literacy Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre at the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education, who is about to be inducted into the International Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame."

Graeme Aitken: Focus on social inequality will aid teachers - NZ Herald

The Manaiakalani Digital Teacher Academy was referred to in an article in the New Zealand Herald in response to the Prime Minister's announcement about upcoming changes to education. Professor Graeme Aitken, Dean of Education, University of Auckland, says; 

"We have recently developed a post-graduate programme with the Manaiakalani schools in Tamaki to support the digital learning, community-based programmes they have developed across their cluster.

Each of these initiatives requires the university to work differently and flexibly - to itself be humble about that fact that we learn as much from working with teachers as they learn from us and that together we will advance knowledge."

To read the full article, click the image below:

Manaiakalani Trust - changing the face of education - RadioLive

Pat Snedden, Manaiakalani Education Trust chair, is interviewed by Andrew Patterson for RadioLive about the trust and its work. Click below to listen to the interview:

Tech firms picked for school internet network - New Zealand Herald

Twelve New Zealand technology companies have been selected to help connect schools to the Network for Learning, which is the infrastructural backbone of Manaiakalani's community wireless initiative and will be for similar programmes around the country. Click below to read more: