Ulearn 2019: For Equity's Sake, redesign your curriculum

Barbara Cavanagh, Huntly College (one of the first schools in Te Kotahitanga)

Disrupt

  • Teacher every child with the same level of belief, and intensity
  • To change students' lives
  • For equity's sake - who benefits and who doesn't?
What is the purpose of school?
  • Huntly - to give all our students dignity, purpose and options




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