CORE Workshop- Janelle Riki - Modern Pathways to raising Māori achievement

Unpacking Tātaiako
Engage over a multitude of ways, events, happenings.
Equitable relationships should start on an equal footing.  Start at ground zero together on projects.

Bringing the Treaty to Life in our schools:
Partnership

• Equitable and reciprocal
• Acknowledge their mana and whakapapa
• Acknowledge and grow their potential
• Active engagement
• Collaborative decisions
• Equity and equality

Participation

• Invite and engage
• Go and learn about them
• Whanau know their family best and want what you want
• Whanau have valuable knowledge and expertise
• They are more than just immediate family

Protection

• Their aspirations
• Their culture, reo, iwi,
• Their whanau
• Protection of tikanga, culture, identity, language

Getting to know the family, beyond the learner, the families individual strengths, needs and expertise. 

A possible framework for whānau hui:

• appropriate time
• kai
• tikanga: kaumata, karakia, mihimihi
• Child care
• Students present?
• Kaupapa: Māori Student Achievement

Three powerful questions:

What are your aspirations for your tamariki?

What are we doing well?

What could we do better?

Engagement with iwi:

Partnership

• acknowledge mana whenua
• acknowledge mokopuna

Participation

• Invite and engage
• Go and learn about their place

Protection

• History
• Tikanga
• Reo
• Mana

Consider the perceptions, consider developing relationships!

Māori Students

Partnership

• Acknowledge their mana and whakapapa
• Acknowledge their potential

Participation

• Invite and engage
• Go and learn about them

Protection

• Their aspirations
• Their culture
• Their whānau

The Modern Māori Learner:

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy - within Agency, Ubiquity, Connectedness, Collaboration...

Agency:

• The power to act - do you have the power to act here at our school?
• Empowered leaners
• Choice, self directed
• Independance
• Leadership
• Ako
• Tino Rangatiratanga - self determination
• Tuakana/Teina

Creating a Tuakana wall - add names

Creating a Teina wall - add names

Model this with our learners... interact with learners in a whole new way... 

Learner directed learning...

Ubiquity:

• Anytime, anywhere learning
• not confined to a place or time frame
• Māori adapting to surroundings
• Just in time contextual learning

Connectedness:

• Relationship connections
• Connecting to spaces and places
• Being connected - plugged in 
• Face to face - virtual - global
• Whakapapa
• Whenua
• Mahi toi 
• Hononga - taumau, whānau (organised marriages)

Collaboration

• Working together
• Communication
• Learn together
• Roles/responsibilities
• Tuakana/teina
• Wānanga
• Hāpu: roles and responsibilities
• Together with each other, for each other - looking at ways of making tasks for learners to be responsible for parts of tasks...

Māori - means special and normal... Māori was a term Pakeha gave to the people of NZ, just as Pasifika is a term others gave to people from the Pasific nations...

Very powerful words from Janelle... you can leave here today and say I went a session and I learnt... or you can back and say 

"I need sometime to unpack this with you all now..."  explicitly making time to unpack new learning.

Practical ideas:

• visual ideas around your school - Maori artwork, te reo, 
• answerphone messages - kia ora, welcome to our school
• key messages, vision, visual ideas, images, at first point of contact
• making it very clear what our school does stand for
• local names/words visible
• mihi at start of assembly
• Teachers sharing mihi
• NZ in the only place in the world where we can hold up and celebrate the Māori culture