Once again, our combination of school website and excellent class websites has served us extremely well. We've been able to lead learning, provide excellent communication and superb content. Hannah West has made an excellent contribution with PENN and the other regular updates have been well done and really helpful. all the work and upgrades we've carried out over many years, really put us in an excellent position to continue a quality delivery through all the various "levels and lights" we have experienced over 3 years.
In 2022 we have:
improved the Manaiakalani Class OnAir Website
continued with the re-design of the Manaiakalani Website and "family of sites"
The content from the Pt England Website and the Manaiakalani site: http://www.manaiakalani.org/ , continue to be used heavily by people all round the world as reference sites for the way in which we lead learning.
This was a mammoth effort from Dorothy and her team and the work at our end was led ably by Kent Somerville. I would like to congratulate David Clarke, Dave Winter, and partners from the Manaiakalani Hackers and Hapara who worked throughout much of this year to get the integration largely complete. This means that all lour learners still have their own blogs, the blogs are now visible in the Teacher Dashboard, our Twitter Feed is now working properly again and we now have a wonderfully searchable facility for interrogating the thousands of wonderful blogs and posts.
The Manaiakalani collection of posts can be seen at http://www.manaiakalani.org/home
The Pt England collection of posts can be seen at https://www.ptengland.school.nz/
Work continues in this domain. We are continuing to work on the idea of A.I. and Analytics to find efficient ways to deal with the vastly increased amount of qualitative data we have to deal with. We have yet to crack this nut but will continue investigating!
During 2022 we went through the exercise of going back out to market for our Procurement Partner. PB Technologies were successful in securing this for thenext 3 yrs. We are very happy with this result and already Stan and the PB Tech team have made a significant difference to our opportunities and have supported us through some key events.
A BIG thank-you goes to Dave Winter, Stan Fosenbauer and Cameron Anderson for suporting us in testing devices, haggling, searching and trialling so that we can offer our Manaiakalani schools effectively bundled services and products that are appropriately priced as well as well tested. Special thanks goes to Cameron and Acer for enabling us to continue the now well piloted Manaiakalani-Acer Care Plan to replace the very expensive insurance problem we had.
Dave Winter, we offer you an ENORMOUS thank-you, as we simply would not hav emade it without you!
In this year of constrained supply chain our organisation has done extremely well in supporting devices at home or at school, getting insurance judgements and repairs done and ensuring pricing remained appropriate and affordable for our Whānau. Excellent job Dave!
A bunch of well tested and "school ready" items are now available for online purchasing by our schools via the PB-Tech Web Portal. Well done Team!
Toward the end of 2020, we made the decision to stop paying Auckland University for Data Management and Analysis and instead moved this business to EdPotential. We then added two employees to our Research Team, a Data Manager, Adam McMillan and a Research Assistant, Kiri Kirkpatrick. This has turned out to be an enormous success. It costs about half as much as we paid to Auckland University and has produced a far more versatile result. Adam has now been replaced by David Clarke, Adam having gone to live in Sweden. The partnership with Charlie and the team at EdPotential has been of great benefit to Manaiakalani and all member schools as we now have access to dynamic realtime data, some examples of which you will see in this report.
During this year we have talked and partnered with
MOE and N4L to design authentication and filtering for "last mile connections"
MOE to design an equity provision for families who cannot afford digital devices and connections We now working on ensuring that this EDOS provision does not get discontinued and in fact gets offered out to more needy families in Aotearoa
Department of Internal Affairs to contribute to the Equitable Digital Access strategy for NZ
Much of this work was given greater urgency at a government and departmental level because of COVID-19.
Thanks Kent for all your work in the back-ground this year integrating systems and making sure that everything was working.
Leigh has done another amazing job as our school's data manager, managing ENROL, Attendance, Assembly, Hero our various Academic Databases and our Back-to-School spreadsheets. Thank-You Leigh!
Thanks again, to our Board comprised of Ana Herbert (Board Chair), Senio Alai, Fatima Fifita, Poasa Moala, Kaue Pakalani and Kelsey Parrant. We haven't been together long, -meeting three just coming up, but already more good things are happening!
Thanks so much Board of Trustees, for all you make possible and for the support that for many of you goes back years now!
I simply could not do the work I do for Manaiakalani and our community of schools and learners if the Pt England Board did not support and approve this work. This Board of Trustees is a very generous hearted and faithful group of people continuing to support the innovation that we have carried out over the years at Pt England School.
Board Team, you are a blessing, you've supported us so well this year and I love working with you.