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Removing Barriers for Māori, Pasifika, Diverse Learners and those needing support
Removing Barriers for Māori, Pasifika, Diverse Learners and those needing support
The Manaiakalani Learn, Create, Share pedagogy, that originated from this school and has now spread to 120 schools, was specifically designed to remove barriers to learning for Māori, Pasifika and Diverse Learners.
We continue to involve whānau/aiga in the ongoing development of this work along with development collaboration from the Network of Schools we share knowledge and practice with.
It is this pedagogy and these partnerships with community and whānau that have enabled us to achieve academic results vastly different from the rest of Aotearoa. The Writing Chart below shows a trajectory of acceleration that runs counter to that experienced by Māori and Pasifika in the rest of the country
The chart above, is something to be enormously proud of as it demonstrates clearly, position and progress over time, from well below th norm to "nudging" the norm by the end of the 3rd year.
Because this pedagogy is delivered and received on a digital platform the Manaiakalani Group have become notable for removing barriers by making an excellent learner device affordable through micro loans and for the supporting the cost of ownership through the life of the device. This work has been truly ground breaking in Aotearoa and is a significant "Education Hack"! The work has successfully included support for the access of diverse learners, with accessibility always being part of the pedagogical development. The devices are all thoroughly tested, along with their in-class peripherals and then made available through a custom portal for Manaiakalani Schools and Whānau.
Over decades, Manaiakalani has also been ground breaking in supplying the Tāmaki Learning Network, (the first school based community wireless mesh in Aotearo) to the homes and learners in this community and has been instrumental in anchoring the EDOS Programme in NZ, which provided free or affordable household connections to whānau who could not otherwise afford this up until June 2024 when the government discontinued this offering.
We are absolutely delighted to report that the Manaiakalani Procurement Committee has secured prices and provision for Q1 2025, which have not gone up at all even though prices have risen all around us. We are grateful to our partners, Acer Computers and PB Tech for enabling us to achieve this.
Our self insurance programme (Manaiakalani Device Care) continues to function reliably and the charts below shows not only the extent of the insurance service we offer, but the degree of whānau device ownership we have enabled. This is something that began here at Pt England, that we can be truly proud of and once again must congratulate the Manaiakalani Hackers, based here at Pt England, for what they have achieved for equity in Aotearoa New Zealand, over the last decade!
Tauira who are connected, empowered, and where learning is visible and ubiquitous are able to engage and involve their whānau in their learning and share and receive comments with and from a wider audience, giving greater meaning and purpose to their learning.
As we have worked to identify barriers to learning we have become clear that the biggest single barrier is teacher capability.
To that end we have developed:
To raise capability fo our teachers and leaders
In order to keep our Tauira and their Whānau safe whilst they are doing this mahi we have developed the:
Learners have sound foundation skills in Reading, Writing and Maths
Learners have sound foundation skills in Reading, Writing and Maths
For a more detailed view and discussion of our tuaira performance in core subjects, key competencies and other areas, please visit the Assessment Pages of this Report.
Much of the focus of our work in this year, as in every year, is to acclerate the learning in the three core subjects.
The following 3 graphics emphasise why this work is necessary and important
We have had staff in engaged in the PLD mentioned above and are pleased with the results we have achieved in the core subjects. As noted above, when we examine the progress over 3 years you will notice progress toward the norm is positive and this means our tauira were making more than 1 year's progress in a year over that period. We all agree we still have some distance to go and are looking forward to seeing how much we can improve this in a "Structured Maths" environment. For all that, this is a pleasing result.
You will notice a slower trend ocurring in Reading and we have high hopes of improvement coming from Structured Literacy via BSLA and the Reading Practice Intensive.
For full reporting on the performance of and provision for diverse learning needs, please see the Programme Reports sub pages of this report. As noted in earlier pages of this report, we have worked extensively with whānau and iwi to ensure our delivery is culturally responsive as well as being responsive to diverse learning needs.
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