National Library Services to School website: https://natlib.govt.nz/schools

Key places for content that may help in understanding and promotion of Mātauranga Māori in classrooms:

• MoE youtube clips: insights into Kaupapa Māori (broken down into different concepts and principles)
• Great books: Niho Taniwha by Melanie Riwai-Couch, Ki te hoe! Education for Aotearoa edited by Pania Te Maro and Robin Averill,
• Common Practice Model (principles and pedagogies) has hyperlinks to research for deeper understanding: promoting heritage languages, dialogic teaching, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies
  • incorporating more dialogic teaching (rich extended dialogue) – CPM references Aaron Wilson and Jacinta Olderhaver’s research on ‘Talk about Text’ – changing patterns of discourse in low-decile secondary classrooms
• Mana ōrite mō te Mātauranga Māori - Equal status for mātauranga Māori in NCEA | NCEA (education.govt.nz)
  • Although framed around mātauranga Māori in terms of NCEA, this provides general guidance that can have wider application
• Maori History (tki.org.nz)
  • Although focused on ‘Māori history’  this guidance and supports (eg videos) can have wider application.
  • Of note:
    • Te Takanga o te Wā - Māori History Guidelines Year 1 - 8 | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
      • Note; this “Te Takanga o te Wā” is not to be confused with the “Te Takanga o te Wā” (Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum) for Te Marautanga o Aotearoa – same title, different things
    • Contexts | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
    • Videos | Maori History (tki.org.nz)
• Regionally-allocated PLD – Professional Learning & Development (education.govt.nz)
  • PLD priorities – Professional Learning & Development (education.govt.nz) for English medium education settings include:
    • cultural capability
    • local curriculum design

both of which relate to mātauranga Māori – so kaiako can request their school engages (if they haven’t already) in PLD in this space

• Leading local curriculum guide series / Strengthening local curriculum / Kia ora - NZ Curriculum Online (tki.org.nz)
  • Although aimed at school leadership – kaiako can use these to start conversations
  • Especially note: Leading Local Curriculum Guide – Aotearoa New Zealand's histories Part 1.pdf – (although and ANZHC focus, again can have wider application)
    • Productive partnerships with whānau, hapū, and iwi (pages 15–19) Find evidence-based strategies to help you build and strengthen partnerships with Māori communities. – although it must be stressed that relationships with hapū and iwi should be lead by school leadership, not individual kaiako. Relationships may also be brokered with MOE help.

Season 2 of the podcast is engineered by Angad Vraich. 

Hattie Salmon shares three of her poems and talks about how her poetry has evolved since its lively start in secondary school.

Author of more than 30 books, teacher for more than 30 years in the English classroom, Proud Ngāti Porou Tania Roxborogh speaks to us about her Masters/Doctorate research exploring the relationship between mātauranga Māori and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Tania runs a very lively Twitter presence

Streaming is a hot topic in education at the moment. Chris and Philly explore its dimensions and bring Chris Abercrombie from PPTA into the conversation.

• The PPTA paper on ending streaming
• Philly was interviewed by a Stuff reporter on the subject
• Al Jazeera made a documentary about Chris’ alternative to streaming in a UK school.
• Chris Abercrombie is on Twitter

Claudia shares her personal and professional journey and the urgency she feels that we face some difficult questions about the direction in which our teaching of Secondary English has drifted in recent years. Her doctoral research brought to our attention the uncomfortable truth that the study of complex literary texts is diminishing in New Zealand education, and is doing so disproportionately quickly in lower-decile schools.

You may also be interested in reading Claudia’s article published in the latest “English in Aotearoa”, Issue 105.

Robert Sullivan’s poetry carries with it a sense of mischief as he traverses some of the most urgent and intimate topics in Aotearoa over the last couple of centuries. We discuss his poetry, his philosophy and his perspective on education in New Zealand.

• Tunui and Robert Sullivan’s Published Work
• Robert Sullivan’s Poetry Online: Poetry Archive, Poetry Foundation

Khadro Mohamed speaks to us about losing, and then regaining, her Somali language and how her culture and language influence her poetry. She shares her experiences growing up in a New Zealand where she was frequently complimented on her Kiwi accent and we examine what to do when someone doesn’t “understand” a poem.

• I’m Sure You’ve Heard – The Spinoff
• A Prince Song – Sweet Mammalian
• Khadro Mohamed on Twitter

As a salve to the challenges of starting a new term Dr Glenn Colquhoun talks to us about his GP practice where he specialises in work with rangitahi. He reads his poem “One That Got Away – for Jack” and he talks about the role of the teacher in schools with reverence and respect. Listen to this, teachers, and be reminded of the good you do.

Glenn’s Biography and links to his work

Airana Ngarewa epitomises the best New Zealand has to offer to education and writing. Philly first met him while he was completing his Masters in Educational Leadership via Ako Mātātupu, and then over recent months his writing has started showing up in some high-profile places. This interview was a great pleasure for us both – It’s great to be in conversation with a young person who is so obviously going places.

• Short Story Published in Landfall: Ihi Wehi Wana
• Article Published in E Tangata: You been playing up, boy?
• Articles Published in The Spinoff
• Short Story Published in The Newsroom: Pātea Pools

Jack reads some of his flash fiction and talks with candour and depth about his time at school with undiagnosed ADHD, his fan fiction, making Sherlock more gay, his writing processes – not to mention his work as a rugby referee.

If you haven’t already, you can buy his anthology of Flash Fiction “Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson, and other very short stories” – three pieces from which are read and discussed in this week’s podcast

Both having recently taken over the position of Head of Department in new schools, Chris and Philly discuss their experiences. This is a chance to look ‘under the lid’ of two very different departments of English. The highs and lows will resonate with anyone working in English teaching in Aotearoa, but Philly and Chris also relay the extent to which the journey is one of personal growth.

Hera Lindsay Bird joined Philly at her place for a drink and we thought – “Let’s record a podcast!”. In spite of her modesty, we gained a great insight into what drives Hera and her poetry.

Links to content mentioned in the podcast:

• “Pyramid Scheme” by Hera Lindsay Bird
• Glass Leaves Text Manipulator – designed by Gregory Kan

Starling Magazine has just published its 13th edition and it is going from strength to strength. We talk with co-editor Louise Wallace about the magazine’s inception, evolution, and its editorial process. Then Louise shares some of her own poems for our scrutiny and great pleasure.

The poetry read or mentioned in this podcast:

• Amelia Kirkness “Cloud Watching”
• Louise Wallace “The Thing“
• Louise Wallace “The Feijoas are Falling From The Trees“

This week’s episode is an investigation into some of the long-established conventions of Secondary English scholarship. Dr Welby Ings joins us and challenges some of our presumptions about how knowing and learning actually works. Philly talks to a student, Charlie, about what English is to them.

References to items mentioned in our conversation with Welby

• Welby Ings’ Book “Disobedient Teaching: Surviving and creating change in education“
• Gerbrand van Melle’s non-linear thesis
• Welby Ing’s new film “PUNCH” (released in New Zealand later this year)
• Tatiana Tavares “Saints of Paradox“
• Tatiana Tavares’ thesis “Paradoxical Realities: A Creative Consideration of Realismo Maravilhoso in an Interactive Digital Narrative“

Philly approaches her text studies theme-first; engaging her students with the big ideas and emotions evoked, whereas Chris has a penchant for starting with a detailed exploration of style, form or genre and seeing what ideas emerge from there. Caitlin tells us all what NZATE is currently up to and outlines a range of professional development opportunities coming your way. Owen Marshall is our guest creator; Pip explores his authorial process and it’s fair to say we were all thoroughly charmed by the humility and grace of this literary great.

Check the NZATE Website for more information about upcoming workshops in your area.

It’s a new year and our podcast kicks things off looking into the recent flourishing of LGBTQIA+ literature in Aotearoa. Chris Tse reads two of his poems for us and we discuss his work co-editing “Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LBGTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa”. We then speak to Chelsea from the new Alphabet Book Club: a store and community designed specifically for LBGTQIA+ New Zealanders and our allies.

Chris Tse

• Like a Queen
• Selfie with landscape

Alphabet Book Club

• The House in the Cerulean Sea – T J Klune
• Tinned Tomato and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues – H S Valley

Welcome to the first episode of the NZATE podcast – We’re very pleased to meet you.

Poet Liz Breslin reads her poem “recaptcha / all I ask is” and discusses how it came about. She suggests we all go take a look at Stasis Journal and Starling Magazine

Check out her latest poetry anthology “In Bed with the Feminists“

Teacher Ruth Richardson gave us a great insight into the work of Read NZ (formerly the New Zealand Book Council) and she also shared these favourites from her teaching life:

• Read NZ
• “Feed” by M T Anderson
• “To a Maori Figure Cast in Bronze Outside the Chief Post Office, Auckland” by Hone Tuwhare
• Selina Tusitala Marsh
• Tayi Tibble “On Being Skux”