Unpacking the Science curriculum – Practices and Capabilities

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 toContinue reading “Unpacking the Science curriculum – Practices and Capabilities”

Unpacking the draft Science curriculum

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 thingsContinue reading “Unpacking the draft Science curriculum”

Thinking explicitly about values

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 – andContinue reading “Thinking explicitly about values”