Culture Counts: Changing Power Relations in Education

Bishop,Russell

What does it mean to lead a Soul-Centered Life? 
According to renowned coach, mentor, and bestselling author Russell Bishop, leading a Soul-Centered Life refers to a method of listening to your inner voice-to proactively consulting with your True Self for counsel about the decisions in front of you and creating inspiring self-talk. Russell's brilliant approach, as explored in this prescriptive book, can mean the difference between a good life and a great life. Through a wealth of tips, meditations, affirmations, and exercises, Bishop guides you on an uplifting journey that will lead you to experience heightened awareness and determine what you truly want, instead of simply settling for the status quo.

From Self-Talk to Soul Talk: Becoming More of Who You Truly Are

Religion & Spirituality

GMK Writing & Editing, Inc.

What is school reform? What makes it sustainable? Who needs to be involved? How is scaling up achieved? This book is about the need for educational reforms that have built into them, from the outset, those elements that will see them sustained in the original sites and spread to others. Using New Zealand's Te Kotahitanga Project as a model the authors branch out from the project itself to seek to uncover how an educational reform can become both extendable and sustainable. Their model can be applied to a variety of levels within education: classroom, school and system wide. It has seven elements that should be present in the reform initiative from the outset. These elements include establishing goals and a vision for reducing disparities; embedding a new pedagogy to depth in order to change the core of educational practice; developing new institutions and organisational structures to support in-class initiatives; developing leadership that is responsive, proactive and distributed; spreading the reform to include all teachers, parents, community members and external agencies; developing and using appropriate measures of performance as evidence for modifying core classroom and school practices; creating opportunities for all involved to take ownership of the reform in such a way that the original objectives of the reform are protected and sustained.

Scaling Up Education Reform

Education & Teaching

Berryman, Mere

O'Sullivan, Barrister Dominic

Schools & Teaching

NZCER Press

Teaching to the North-East responds to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a way of teaching intended to increase equity in the education system. 
One way this marginalisation happens is when the special qualities students bring to the classroom are treated as deficiencies. This consigns Indigenous, migrant, refugee, faith- based students, students with learning difficulties, and students of difference to educational “failure”. 
Russell Bishop sets out how schools and teachers can respond to diverse groups of students and develop teaching practices that promote learning for everyone. In this approach, students’ prior knowledge, language and ways of making sense of the world are used to inform teaching practices rather than being seen as barriers to learning. 
Teaching to the North-East puts relationships at the centre of learning, and advocates for a relational pedagogy. Russell Bishop builds on his theoretical research in Indigenous Education to describe effective teaching in an extended family-like context that is both culturally responsive and sustaining. Teachers who foster caring and learning relationships within their classrooms interact with students in ways that allow them to see themselves as successful learners. North-East teachers then monitor the impact of these relationships and interactions on students’ progress and modify their practices accordingly so that further progress is ensured and sustained. 
School leaders can support teaching to the North-East with relational leadership, allowing their teachers to thrive. 
Together, North-East teaching and leadership is Relationship-based Learning, a form of culturally-responsive pedagogy that is responsive to and inclusive of all learners, especially those currently marginalised.

Teaching to the North-East: Relationship-based learning in practice

Leading to the North-East

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