Evaluation of the Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy

From the Education Counts website  click for the link
This report outlines findings from an evaluation of the first year of a pilot initiative called the Manaiakalani Digital Teaching Academy (hereafter MDTA). The Manaiakalani Education Trust and the schools within its network are described in Section 2 to provide a context for the initiative and the evaluation
Date Published: October 2015

Girls innov8 2016

Girlsinnov8 2016 at St Cuthberts link to site

#LittleGirlsInnov8 Techcamp 
Monday 18th  & Tuesday 19th January 2016

Registrations CLOSED. 20/12/15
We have reached capacity for this camp in both the MissBits and TechTween age groups.

Add your daughters details to the wait list for further expression of interest.
A place will be offered in December to those on the waitlist should a space become available.

What happens with a growth mindset? ANYTHING!!!

Famous Failures from InnerDrive on Vimeo.

Developing a Growth Mindset

The above You Clip "Growth Mindset Animation"  Kidspeak

Published on 28 Sep 2014

A Short animation explaining the theory of growth and fixed mindsets. This is a tested and effective way of teaching young people what a fixed mindset is and how we can change that. Many of the messages in this video have been taken from the theorist Carol Dweck.

Whole staff PD  (plenty of resources in this link)

Growth mindset dhs conf from shaunallison

Professor Carol Dweck 'Teaching a growth mindset' at Young Minds 2013

What is Innovation?

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Making the shift to Innovative Learning Environments…what’s the risk? blogpost by Tamara Jones

Innovation leadership in Education 2015 from Timothy Wooi

What is innovation? from Rafa Galeano on Vimeo.

MINDLAB coding PD Monday 14 Feb

Went to PD at the mindlab yesterday.
Arduino board and using scratch type coding
More to come on this

MIndlab Lit review

Innovative Leadership -
What does innovative leadership look like in the context of a NZ Primary School in 2015?
Need to define innovation
Need key stake holders to develop a growth mindset ( Staff, BoT & community)
Need to research gamification of education

My First Movie for the record

2014 Manaiakalani Film Festival   Room 25  NE class at Pt England School
HAPPY