Thoughts and ponderings as I learn about things educationy
Kia ora and welcome. This is my second unpack of the draft Science curriculum (The first is HERE). I will repeat that I am writing this mostly to get my own thoughts in order, but as I got a lot of messages and interesting discussion from the first post, I guess it is also to…
This is my attempt to unpack some of the Draft Science curriculum released in October 2025. You can find the doc HERE. I am writing this primarily to get my own thoughts in order – to try and understand the document and formulate some feedback – as well as generate some discussion as talking things…
These thoughts are mine and do not represent my employer or place of work. Recently, I presented at some conferences about curriculum change. As it turned out, I couldn’t present on the changes, because they hadn’t been released yet. So I instead thought about some recent parent teacher interviews I had been in – and…
Well, it has been a while!! Back I’m back to blogging, and am in my second term of being back in a classroom. Up till now I hadn’t really been sure about getting back to my blog, and I wasn’t even sure what to write about. Then this past week we were finishing up the…
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Kia ora. Ko Rachel Chisnall toku ingoa (I am Rachel Chisnall). Welcome to my blog posts about teaching and learning, techie stuff and less techie stuff. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and have a great day
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