Cultural sustainability

Grow Waitaha talanoa for Pacific educators

Video

The 2023 Grow Waitaha talanoa for Pacific educators focused on trauma-informed practice through a Pacific worldview.

This evening of keynotes and a panel talanoa from Pacific practitioners was for educators (teachers, teacher aides and liaison officers) of Pacific descent.

Speakers:

Peati Mene-Vaele: MSP, PGDipPsych (Clinical), BA-Psych (Hons) Clinical Psychologist at Etu Pasifika

Jeremy Faumuinā: Kaiawhina Family Harm and Youth Prevention Social Worker at NZ Police

Hosted by:

Angeline Malae and Daisy Lavea-Timo from Grow Waitaha

Mahinga Kai Web Series by Ngāi Tahu

Video series

“Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai” is a video series created by Ngāi Tahu featuring 12 ten-minute episodes filmed in the stunning landscape of Te Waipounamu. It captures the stories and essence of traditional food gathering practices passed down through the generations.

A framework for using the Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai video series to teach social studies

Guide

Use the “Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai” video series featuring 12 ten-minute episodes filmed in the stunning landscape of Te Waipounamu.

Te Takanga o te Wā – Māori History Guidelines Year 1–8

Website

This resource provides a framework to support teachers to teach Māori history with their students. The content and context that you choose for your class could focus on building quality and collaborative engagement with your local iwi and hapū.

Ending Streaming in Aotearoa

Guide

Tokona Te Raki share their blueprint for change linked to ākonga experiences of the impacts of streaming.

The refreshed Ka Hikitia strategy visual

Guide (PDF, 793 KB)

KA HIKITIA: Māori are enjoying and achieving education success as Māori, as they develop the skills to participate in te ao Māori, Aotearoa and the wider world.

Ka Hikitia is a cross-agency strategy for the education sector. It sets out how we will work with education services to achieve system shifts in education and support Māori learners and their whānau, hapū and iwi to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes and provides an organising framework for the actions we will take.

Knights Stream School – Looking to the past to shape the future

Article

Find out how the vision and cultural narrative of Knights Stream School has been shaped by the history and stories of the land on which the school stands.

Planning innovative learning environments

Guide

This guide from the Inclusive Education website provides strategies and suggestions for developing innovative learning environments (ILEs) that work for all learners. It focuses on supporting schools who are planning a new build or building modifications.

Grow Waitaha – Culturally responsive practice | Kua takoto te mānuka

Guide (online PDF)

This guide presents themes collated from the analysis of interviews with principals, teachers and students in Greater Christchurch. These findings were combined with secondary research obtained from relevant studies in this area. It provides recommendations and considerations for creating more culturally responsive learning environments.

Ka Hikitia — Accelerating Success 2013–2017

Strategy (online PDF)

Ka Hikitia is a strategy to guide action to make a significant difference for Māori students in education.

Ngāi Tahu Education Strategy 2015

Strategy (online PDF)

This education strategy describes the four strategies that Ngai Tahu will employ to enable the success and well-being of Ngāi Tahu whānau in all aspects of their lives.

Culturally responsive practice

Video

This collection of videos from EdTalks explores culturally responsive practice in the New Zealand setting.

Kia Eke Panuku – Building on success

Website

This repository of stories and resources focuses on secondary schools giving life to Ka Hikitia and addressing the aspirations of Māori communities by supporting Māori students to pursue their potential.

Te Puāwai

App

This educational resource has been designed for NZQA staff to learn about basic Tikanga and te reo Māori to support their day to day work.

Article 2 and Te Reo Māori

Blog

This blog post explores the kaupapa of te reo Māori in our society and asks the question – He taonga rānei te reo Māori? Is te reo Māori indeed a treasure?

Chisnallwood Intermediate School – Strategic planning through a culturally responsive lens

Article

This Grow Waitaha article describes how the senior leadership team from Chisnallwood Intermediate School created a succinct and culturally responsive strategic plan that can be understood and articulated by students and teachers.

St Marks – Working with Mātauraka Mahaanui

Article

This Grow Waitaha article describes how St Marks School worked closely with Mātauraka Mahaanui to develop culturally sustainable practices and bring their cultural narrative to life.

South Hornby School – Master planning journey

Article

Simon Moriarty, principal of South Hornby School – Te Manu Tukutuku, shares his school’s experiences as they relocated to a newly built school on a new site.

Sumner School – Master planning journey

Article

Stuart Cameron, principal of Sumner School, shares his school’s experiences through the master planning and design phases of their property development.

Kā Huru Manu – Ngāi Tahu Atlas

Tool

The Ngāi Tahu Atlas profiles over 1000 original Māori place names, kā ara tawhito (traditional travel routes), and the original Māori land allocations in the Ngāi Tahu takiwā.

NZC spotlight – Māori achieving success as Māori

Presentation

In this resource, explore what Māori success as Māori means to you. A great tool for working together to develop shared understandings and to be more culturally responsive.

Mana ōrite: Critical curriculum contexts for promoting Mauri Ora

Video

Dr Mere Berryman shares critical contexts for change where the curriculum can both accelerate and promote contexts for Mauri ora.

Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for teachers of Māori learners

Guide

Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners supports your work to personalise learning for and with Māori learners, to ensure they enjoy education success as Māori.

Te Whatu Pōkeka: Kaupapa Māori Assessment for Learning

Guide

A support for teachers to grow their bicultural development by exploring kaupapa Māori assessment and developing their understanding of a Māori world view and bicultural practices.

NZC Update 1 – Family and Community Engagement

Guide

This NZC Update focuses on engagement with whānau and Māori communities.

Education for Māori: Relationships Between Schools and Whānau

Report

This report from the Auditor General Office examines how well the education system supports Māori students to achieve their full potential. It presents information about relationships between families and schools, and offers examples of practices that build effective relationships.

Reviewing your school-whānau partnerships

Tool

Use this interactive tool with parents, families, whānau, and communities to identify the strengths and needs of your school–whānau partnerships and work towards improving student outcomes. The tool results in a comprehensive report that supports you to identify your progress, next steps, and goals.

Engaging whānau through Māori graduation

Video

Growing an educationally powerful partnership with whānau has been a key priority across the Mt Roskill campus. This film explains how the development of Māori graduation ceremonies has led to deeper community connections and growing pride in student achievement.

Developing whānau priorities at Te Kura o Hiruharama

Video

The staff, board, and whānau at Te Kura o Hiruharama went through a collaborative process to identify their priorities for learning. This story explains the process and the outcomes of this exploration and how this has transferred into the life of the school.

Strengthening iwi and whānau partnerships

Video

Staff at Taihape Area School developed collaborative and sustainable partnerships with family, whānau, and iwi. This film explains how the iwi's vision and aspirations are shared, understood, and reflected in practice.

Working in partnership with iwi and hapu to develop a localised curriculum

Article

Schools in the Taupō area, including Wairakei School, have worked in partnership with Ngāti Tūwharetoa to ensure students learn about their iwi, its history, places, and stories.

A closer look at Ka Hikitia – Accelerating Success 2013-2017

Blog

This blog post is part one of a series that looks closely at different aspects of the Māori education strategy. It examines the principle of productive partnerships in closer detail.

Ka Hikitia in Action

Report

This second issue of the Ministry's magazine, Ka Hikitia in Action, shows what can happen when communities take the lead and turn a government strategy, like the Māori education strategy, Ka Hikitia - Accelerating Success 2013-2017, into action.

Whose voices help to shape your local curriculum?

Blog

This blog provides ideas, questions, tools, and examples to help you design a local curriculum that reflects what is important to your community. It contains a section around engaging with Māori whānau, hapū, and iwi.

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and card set

Tool (online PDF)

The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) and card set supports schools on a journey of transformational change and identifies aspects of practice which can enable the innovation of teaching and learning. Cultural sustainability is one of the nine principles of the MEF.

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Grow Waitaha talanoa for Pacific educators

Video

Mahinga Kai Web Series by Ngāi Tahu

Video series

A framework for using the Ngāi Tahu Mahinga Kai video series to teach social studies

Guide

Te Takanga o te Wā – Māori History Guidelines Year 1–8

Website

Ending Streaming in Aotearoa

Guide

The refreshed Ka Hikitia strategy visual

Guide (PDF, 793 KB)

Knights Stream School – Looking to the past to shape the future

Article

Planning innovative learning environments

Guide

Grow Waitaha – Culturally responsive practice | Kua takoto te mānuka

Guide (online PDF)

Ka Hikitia — Accelerating Success 2013–2017

Strategy (online PDF)

Ngāi Tahu Education Strategy 2015

Strategy (online PDF)

Culturally responsive practice

Video

Kia Eke Panuku – Building on success

Website

Te Puāwai

App

Article 2 and Te Reo Māori

Blog

Chisnallwood Intermediate School – Strategic planning through a culturally responsive lens

Article

St Marks – Working with Mātauraka Mahaanui

Article

South Hornby School – Master planning journey

Article

Sumner School – Master planning journey

Article

Kā Huru Manu – Ngāi Tahu Atlas

Tool

NZC spotlight – Māori achieving success as Māori

Presentation

Mana ōrite: Critical curriculum contexts for promoting Mauri Ora

Video

Tātaiako: Cultural Competencies for teachers of Māori learners

Guide

Te Whatu Pōkeka: Kaupapa Māori Assessment for Learning

Guide

NZC Update 1 – Family and Community Engagement

Guide

Education for Māori: Relationships Between Schools and Whānau

Report

Reviewing your school-whānau partnerships

Tool

Engaging whānau through Māori graduation

Video

Developing whānau priorities at Te Kura o Hiruharama

Video

Strengthening iwi and whānau partnerships

Video

Working in partnership with iwi and hapu to develop a localised curriculum

Article

A closer look at Ka Hikitia – Accelerating Success 2013-2017

Blog

Ka Hikitia in Action

Report

Whose voices help to shape your local curriculum?

Blog

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and card set

Tool (online PDF)

Inclusive Education Guides for Schools – Supporting Māori students

Guide

Connecting with Māori communities: Whānau, Hapū, and Iwi

Report (online PDF)