Frank Wilson

Back up now! Thank you

Does anyone know when @fyi.org.nz will be up again?

His claim that our best ideas come from Western Civilisation is like claiming the objects in the British Museum are British.

A new Dawn by Emeli Sione could be good too

Mata Lulu by Lani Young would be great. It’s aimed at children so has simple language but layered stories.

What I’d say to you is I have no clue how you can be a better human than you think you are

NDAs preventing consultation on crucial education changes - teachers Teachers' unions say non-disclosure agreements are creating secrecy around crucial education changes.

"The National curriculum isn't a state secret..."

"When you prevent educational leaders, principals, teachers, anyone who is on these advisory groups from consulting with their communities, you're not protecting anything. You're undermining democratic participation."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Or maybe Doctor Whio

Enrich a movie by adding your pick for #BirdOfTheYear

Itty Bitty Tītī Committee

I started getting them with perimenopause - always in the luteal phase when progesterone drops - hormone therapy has pretty much banished them

English also has the soft t! In words like stop - or anything with a fricative like s preceding the t, the t is soft

So the consideration shouldn’t be language of origin, it should be place in the scope and sequence thinking about starting with the most frequent and easiest to learn and moving to least frequent and harder

When the conversation really should be about when is an appropriate point in the scope and sequence to introduce that grapheme phoneme correspondence? Possibly the diphthongs in the Kupu in this book should be later in the scope and sequence (eg the ae in marae) but the rest are easy and frequent

I don’t think we need to take out words that are commonly used in English (like Koro, hangi, karakia etc) because they are originally from Māori. Many words in English are from different origins -it’s like saying we can’t have the word machine because it has the French /sh/ sound for the ch digraph.

Surely this argument only works if you assume that the children do not have those kupu in their oral language lexicon? This book is revision for long vowels, so they already should know that vowel graphemes can represent different phonemes. 1/2

Not really, NZ English has plenty of reo embedded within it, so it would make sense (to me at least) to work out a scope and sequence that recognises that

I don’t understand why NZ doesn’t have a scope and sequence that includes te reo GPCs. If we follow the generally agreed rule that we should go from easiest and most frequent GPCs to hardest and least frequent, I would guess reo ones would fit in somewhere before the middle of the sequence.

Do you know if anyone has OIAed Stanford / the MoE on their communications with Crimson?

Do you have any info on that? Is be very keen to read it!

#SSchat

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“Candidates for membership in different groups are evaluated based on relevant skills and expertise”

Quote from their response:

“In respect of requests for information around the ethnicity of members of the Ministry’s various
groups, including the Contributor, Coherence, and Writing groups, that information is neither sought, nor recorded…

Just found this OIA request feed. You can search for any agencies of interest . And this 1 is interesting…
In response to this request about how many Māori and Pacific people they asked to contribute on the SS and Aotearoa histories curriculum, the MoE state they didn’t consider it relevant.

‘Formerly known as cinna-bun buns’?

Oh Chris xoxx

I rate the Moov stuff - not the sensitive one but the one that smells like white aeroplane lollies. It’s the most effective one I’ve found. But you need to repeat three times to make sure you get any that were eggs.

A researcher in NZ, Olwyn Johnston studied this in her PhD and found it had a very positive effect: openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/the...

I have always named my cars! My kid named our cherry coloured car when he was two - Cherry Chicken Cherry. So now that's a pattern - car colour, Chicken, car colour. Current car is white so marshmallow coloured and is called Marshmallow Chicken Marshmallow (Marsha for short)

Thank you!

Amazing, thank you!