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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.
Grow Waitaha has a mission to help schools and kura reimagine education for young people across the region. At the heart of Grow Waitaha is an unwavering commitment to inclusivity and diversity, ensuring that all learners have opportunities to excel in supportive learning environments. In 2021, we started a dedicated rōpū to discuss the educational experiences of gender-diverse ākonga and how schools can work to be more inclusive.
Although the internet offers access to a lot of high-quality information, we are also facing a rise in misinformation and disinformation online. This guide is an overview of the Finding Good Information fold-out brochure for secondary students and the rationale that underpins it. The brochure supports ākonga to identify good information online in the face of growing misinformation. Use it to teach critical thinking and analysis skills.
This brochure provides advice and tools that will help secondary students find reliable information, identify and avoid misinformation and disinformation, and review the quality of information produced by AI. Finding good information is key to producing high quality research assignments and being able to justify opinions/views on an issue.
Download this summary of useful links for resources about fake news, ChatGPT, disinformation and misinformation, bias, AI tools, and how to navigate online spaces safely.
Strengthen collaboration and learning opportunities with our tailored overview of Grow Waitaha resources.
Whakarongo ki tōku reo: He kete tūhono ākonga ki te reo | Hear my voice: A guide for engaging students in wellbeing supports kaiako and ākonga to connect and kōrero about hauora/wellbeing. This guide aims to empower you to support your own hauora and co-design meaningful approaches to hauora for ākonga.
This helpful infographic helps you with top tips to support young people experiencing climate anxiety.Download this poster and put it up on a wall in your staffroom or workroom.
This helpful infographic is to share with your whānau, caregivers, and community. It supports whānau with top tips to support their tamariki experiencing climate anxiety.Share this infographic in your next school newsletter.
This document outlines the wellbeing and behavioural impacts of climate change on young people, in particular, the anxiety that they experience in response to climate change and its related phenomena. This is intended to support knowledge in the area of ākonga wellbeing and help educators provide support to young people experiencing climate anxiety.
The Grow Waitaha Secondary Community of Practice (CoP) focuses on wellbeing for ākonga and kaiako. In 2018 this CoP included all secondary schools in Christchurch. These two videos feature educators, facilitators from Mātauraka Mahaanui and Grow Waitaha, and Dr Lucy Hone (New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience).
Canterbury secondary educators describe the value of working collaboratively to promote wellbeing across Waitaha.
Canterbury secondary educators describe the importance of key elements that support wellbeing for staff and learners.
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.
In this video series, teachers from St Thomas of Canterbury describe their AGILE learning sprint approach to improve teacher practice.
Learn about the implementation of a school–wide wellbeing programme: Flourishing@Avonside.
This story outlines the year–long process that Bays Cluster undertook as part of a Ministry of Education Wellbeing pilot, supported by Dr Lucy Hone - Director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience.
Limitless is a programme available for secondary students to understand their strengths and passions and to help them explore options for their futures.
The Wellbeing@School website is designed to support schools to engage with the whole school community in a process of self-review.
The Wellbeing@School tools are designed to support primary, intermediate and secondary schools to engage in a review process.
Positive Behaviour for Learning initiatives help parents, whānau, teachers, early childhood centres, and schools address problem behaviour, improve children’s well-being, and increase educational achievement.
ERO identified five principles as common themes in the evidence and research on effective programmes and initiatives to promote and respond to student wellbeing. (See Appendix 2: Guiding principles for student wellbeing.)
This report documents the findings of ERO's evaluation of how well 159 primary schools reviewed in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
This report presents the findings of ERO’s evaluation of how well 68 secondary schools in Term 1 2014 promoted and responded to student wellbeing.
Wellbeing for success: a resource for schools has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student wellbeing.
This site shares the work of New Zealand experts Dr Lucy Hone, Dr Denise Quinlan, and their team. There is a range of resources available on the site that they have developed.
Adapts the PERMA model for students.
A useful diagram that outlines how communities can work together.
A tool developed to track wellbeing in school communities. (Cost involved)
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. Monitoring impact on wellbeing and learning is one of the nine principles of the MEF.
One model for understanding Māori health is the concept of ‘te whare tapa whā’ – the four cornerstones (or sides) of Māori health.
On this University of Pennsylvania website, you will find information about some of the larger positive psychology initiatives from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center.
New Economics Foundation's (NEF) conducted a review of the most up-to-date evidence and found that building five actions into day to day lives is important for the wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and organisations.
A model that aims to build a positive culture that places wellbeing at the heart of education.
This Māori health model brings together elements of modern health promotion.
A strategy to support education that enables the success and well-being of Ngāi Tahu whānau in all aspects of their lives.
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.
Māori Movement is a health and wellbeing programme that brings together the traditional training of the Māori warriors (both male and female) into a modern interpretation. (Cost involved)
The Skylight Trust has developed resources on a range of topics including Loss and Grief, Relationships and Trauma.
Survey for older students and adults to identify key character strengths.
The information in this website helps school leaders and teachers in gathering, analysing, interpreting, and using information about students' progress and achievement.
Practical guidance for Aotearoa teachers and educational leaders. Helping you recognise, plan for, and meet the learning and wellbeing needs of diverse learners.
This sabbatical report by Alec Solomon presents his findings on student wellbeing through a literature review, visiting schools and other institutions.
This report written by Sue Clement investigates how schools can foster wellbeing for the growing number of students who present with heightened levels of anxiety and trauma. Learn more about successful interventions, practices and strategies that will benefit the health, wellbeing and achievement of these students.