Kāhui Ako ki Motueka

  At MSS this term we are narrowing our school focus towards a need that we identified from Impact Coaching. We noticed that our lessons recorded for IC were not as strong in the area of feedforward as in other areas. This was further supported by the responses from the student voice section - we noticed that students struggled to voice their next learning steps. From here a collective goal was reached with the help of Louise from Cognition: We will be taking the following steps to help work towards achieving our goal: PD and resources available around FF and FB (we feel these are key strategies in supporting students to recognise and voice their next learning steps). Collecting student voice from teacher’s lessons (from 3 selected focus students). Sharing the voices with the staff to discuss in teams. Unpack our findings and how these link to AREA. Looking at the WHY of the voice results and the HOW we can help our students. Collaborating strategies to aid our students achieve thi...

 Kura across our Kāhui Ako are preparing to undertake mahi around the kaupapa of co-construction meetings. The purpose of these hui is to: Maintain a collective focus on student learning and achievement where data is used to reflect on the effectiveness of teaching, to discuss individuals’ rates of progress, and to benchmark and make decisions about the next learning steps. Our 14 schools are now working towards setting up protocols and procedures for these meetings, starting in Week 4. More information and support can be found in this document here Your AST team is willing, able and keen to support your learning in this area. Please do get in touch if this is required in your context.