PB4L Learning and Revising

As part of today's TOD we did some work on PB4L, looking at systems that we had in place and revising and tweaking where we are on our PB4L journey. Richard Busfield shared some valuable learning and reflection around Active Supervision and Gail Porteous looked at the functions of behaviour, of both children and teachers in their responses to their behaviours.

Google Tour Builder

This is a fabulous tool to be able to track your journey and add detail and images about each place along the way. Here is my wee play at using the tool. My model for the students.

Tour Builder- Miss Wing

2019- A New Beginning

As I head into 2019, I am full of excitement and inspired by what I have experienced over the last couple of days, with yet another two TOD's ahead of me today and tomorrow. On Tuesday we attended the Te Ara Tuhura Cluster Power Up Day. It was a great day, being able to hear some inspirational speakers and hear more about Manaiakalani and where we are headed on this Journey. I liaised with staff from across the schools to put together a Slam Session, presenting and sharing a part  of it on Google Drawing and Sumo. I finished up with Harry's Screencastify and he stole the show. It was fabulous. It really demonstrated why we are on this journey and the doors that will open for our tamariki.

Link to SLAM Session here:

Link to Power Up Day Agenda here:


Yesterday's session was around partnerships with whanau on a deeper level and not just surface feature relationship stuff. How do we engage our whanau more, how do we give them more of a say? How do we ensure everyone is actively participating and that whanau have more opportunities to connect with the students learning.