Please feel free to print this out, display in your staff rooms or share with colleagues. Also good to know, schools can apply for Ministry funding for online courses including our new Strengthening Teacher Aide Practice online programme.  

• MoE : https://pld.education.govt.nz/find-pld/teacher-aide-pld/
• NZEI: https://campaigns.nzei.org.nz/support-staff/teacher-aide-pld/

Feel free to ask any questions below or make an enquiry at the bottom of our professional learning webpage. 

Pohewatia te āpōpō | Reimagine tomorrow.    7-8 October 2020 

Using an exciting, contemporary virtual platform, uLearn20 provides professional learning and development that transforms practice.

• Explore two themes over two days with four keynotes who will inspire and disrupt your thinking.
• Customise your learning with six activators, six breakouts and an extensive range of workshops.
• Live and on demand options, including a virtual exhibitor experience.

Pohewatia te angitu | Reimagine success and Pohewatia te ako | Reimagine learning, the uLearn20 themes challenge us to think more broadly about success and creating equitable opportunities for all. Read more about the themes.

Accessible across Aotearoa and beyond, registrations are open now.

We’re excited to introduce uLearn20’s keynotes

Day One: Janelle Riki-Waaka and Dr Lucy Hone. Janelle’s career has been dedicated to improving the learning journey for all tamariki, with a particular focus on enhancing success for Māori learners. Lucy is a director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience, researcher and best-selling author.

Day Two: of this year’s virtual conference features Pedro Noguera and Professor Peter O’Connor. All the way from UCLA, Pedro’s research focuses on the social and economic influences on learning communities. Peter’s work centres on the idea that the arts train the imagination.

Discover the keynotes https://bit.ly/2YfFP6N

Download the document and explore the trends behind the technology, structural, cultural, economic and process themes https://bit.ly/3cI42WY We’d love to hear how they’ve influenced your own teaching and learning practices - feel free to comment 

Derek Wenmoth is presenting ‘Ten Trends: drivers of change shaping our future’, a 1.5 hour webinar on 24 June. Register now to explore the trends together https://bit.ly/3h04e7w

By turning up the volume online on the ways we can possibly socially connect. If you are interested in knowing more, why not join us for this FREE live edSpace webinar on, Cultivating social connection online

In this session, we will;

• strengthen your understanding of high quality connections in an online setting
• experience a connection process that you can take back to your learning spaces
• add to your kete of connection activities

Feel free to register below

However your school or kura might look for you at the moment, we have flexible and responsive ways to support you. We can help you as you navigate distance learning and what this might mean in the near future. Ministry of Education support is available, email pld.enquiries@education.govt.nz and say you want to work with CORE. Or you can contact us directly via learning@core-ed.ac.nz. Visit https://bit.ly/3bphlvC for more information.

For more timely community contributions to support distance learning see, He Kohinga Rauemi Tautoko - Support Resources for Schools, Kura and EY Centres and for mental wellness see, Mental wellness first aid. Please feel free to join both of these groups to contribute ideas and resources of your own. Also, see the latest CORE blog posts to support you during this time.

These easily accessible online tools are a great way to invite interaction, participation and collaboration from near or far. Want to know more? Come and join us this Thursday, 1pm (9 April), for a special, free live event with Accredited facilitator, Katrina Laurie. Feel free to pass this invitation on to others.

Our international friend and mentor, Wesley Fryer has published a blog, 3 Ways to Become a More Connected Educator During the COVID-19 Crisis. He writes,

As we grapple as teachers with how to maintain wellness and self-care for ourselves, our families, and our students, it’s important to consider how we can each become more connected to our educator colleagues around the world for support and idea sharing.

He goes on to recommend Twitter, Flipboard and online learning networks and events.

We also believe in the power of being digitally connected during this time. You've all been invited to join our dedicated group, He Kohinga Rauemi Tautoko - Support Resources for Schools, Kura and EY Centres to help stay informed, offer support and wellbeing, receive and share ideas, resources and advice as we transition to working and learning from home. So far, community members have shared the following (and more):

• Moving towards distance learning resource
• Things to think about when setting up home learning
• Zoom Video Conferencing tips
• Things to think about when setting up home learning
• Learning from the front liners - helpful advice from schools preparing to go online
• Curated Blogs & Resources
• Tips for Successful Online learning meetings

PLEASE NOTE: To contribute to this group, you will need to become a member by clicking JOIN.

You might also like to join the subgroup, Mental wellness first aid for more support on general mental, social and emotional wellbeing. We will keep populating this resource with timely and relevant support material, and invite you to do the same. NOTE: You will need to join the group to contribute.

A message from Janelle Riki-Waaka

You might be starting to think about when ākonga “return” from the holidays. Our team of facilitators have been curating great content to support you. In case you’ve missed them, check out our first two blog posts about building relationships https://bit.ly/2wJOnrz and engaging junior tamariki and whānau https://bit.ly/2Uy4CRo

Image source: Flickr, Lori Shaull, Be kind whenever possible, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)

As you know, the government has been very proactive about supporting everyone during this difficult time. The Ministry of Education is encouraging learning communities to use the funds available to them; to switch contracted locally-focused PLD hours to support distance learning. This could be the immediate support some of your teachers might seek right now - ways to help facilitate learning programmes from home.

If you’re already working with a CORE facilitator and want to switch your PLD focus, please contact them directly or wait to hear from them in the next couple of days. If you aren’t working with us for locally-focused PLD already, but want to, contact learning@core-ed.ac.nz

Day 2: We know you'll be taking the time to look after yourselves, your whānau and giving yourselves time to settle in. Some of you will also be thinking about exploring ways to make learning achievable for you as kaikao and achievable for your ākonga and their whānau. 

We've created a space right here for our community whānau to connect with others, to stay informed, offer support and wellbeing, receive and share ideas, resources and advice. Please feel free to join edSpace and this host group He Kohinga Rauemi Tautoko - Support Resources for Schools, Kura and EY Centres to connect with other like-minded educators self isolating and facilitating learning from a distance. Check out the latest discussions for ideas, resources and challenges.

We've also created some resources in our new website page.https://bit.ly/33L1ipb. Until next time, be safe, stay well and together, we all fight Covid-19.

Mā te wā.

Here's a warm message from Janelle Riki-Waaka via our CORE Facebook page.

FB clip 24 March from edSpace on Vimeo.

Our offices are temporarily closed, but we remain open for business. We can continue to support you virtually through your transition to online learning.

Strong relationships are key to learning - read helpful tips from our facilitation team in our first blog post https://bit.ly/2WC4QZi

If you're looking for ways to support online/distance learning, please feel free to join the group we have set up for our community, He Kohinga Rauemi Tautoko - Support Resources for Schools, Kura and EY Centres.

Once you have joined, you're most welcome to share ideas, resources and strategies of your own.

Hei konā mai and see you online.