Distance Learning

I'm working in schools around Hawke's Bay that are making use of the MoE support package for Distance Learning.  It's frantic, exhausting, but so, so rewarding.  Fantastic working with teachers who are really open to ideas, who try them out and share them with me, clearly proud of their achievements.  As am I.  Zoom and Google Meets are impressive tools, giving students a real opportunity to build a learning community.  Because they need to.  One of my schools is recognising how much better their senior boys can focus virtually without the distractions around them.  Their questions are heard, they learn with each other and get the work handed in.  Tumeke!
While Papatūānuku is breathing, we are moving into a new paradigm of how we work with our students.  I hope we'll be using these changes into the future.