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Purpose:

Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers (MIT) 2025 aims to:

• Create a network for support and mentoring amongst innovative teachers

• Explore ways to enrich the lives and learning of students, their whānau, and the wider community

• Investigate methods to accelerate learning outcomes using Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa

• Support participants in challenging their own practice through a collaborative design thinking process

Application process:

1. Application Deadline: Friday, October 18th, 2024, 5pm

2. Interview Process:

   • Short-listed applicants will be interviewed via Google Meet

   • Interview Date: Thursday, October 24th

   • Interview Panel: Matt Goodwin (MIT-24 Lead), Jenny Oxley (Manaiakalani Education Trust), Dorothy Burt (Manaiakalani Programme), Justine Todd (KPMG partner)

   • The panel will contact your principal to verify your effectiveness as a teacher

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Key Dates for 2025 

• Online Connects: Wednesday, February 19th (after school)

• Kickstart 3-day Hui: Thursday, March 6th - Saturday, March 8th

• Network Meeting Days: March 24th, May 26th, August 11th, November 17th (all Mondays)

• Principals' Wānanga: Thursday, October 23rd - Friday, October 24th* (*TBA)

• Conference: 3-5 days TBA, July or October (School Holidays)

• Release Days: Self-organized

Conditions of Participation

• Model "Learn Create Share" in work with learners and throughout the MIT-25 year

• Make outcomes publicly available online

• Share reflections with the Manaiakalani Online community, PLD team, MET, Principals, and research team

• Set and meet targets each term in negotiation with MIT-25 leaders

• Attend and share at agreed hui and conferences (including overnight stays; one may require a current passport and vaccinations)

• Attend MIT-25 network sessions (1 day each term in Auckland)

• Release from class to focus on project (2 days each term)

• Willingness to grow presentation skills locally and overseas

Important Considerations

• MET will not fund repeats of past MIT projects, however projects may build on previously successful projects and extend or enrich the innovation

  • Review previous years of Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers to avoid repeating past projects

• We are particularly interested in proposals that bring innovation through the Manaiakalani pedgagogy and kaupapa to published government priorities to improve achievement (eg Maths and Literacy, Level 1 NCEA).

• Proposals shortlisted will harness the affordances of technology to raise student achievement outcomes

Finally

The Manaiakalani Programme has gained national and international credibility as an innovative approach to ensuring the foundation requirements of schooling are being met whilst offering young people the opportunity to learn in an environment which recognises the special character of our children as digital citizens whose world is very different from their teachers at the same age.

Over the eleven years of the Manaiakalani Innovative Teacher programme we have had teachers who have taken this opportunity to investigate ways to accelerate learning outcomes for our young people via the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa. The most successful MIT projects have subsequently become the foundation of classroom implementation for colleagues within the Manaiakalani Network and around New Zealand.  The Manaiakalani Education Trust is keen to support teachers who are challenging their own teaching practice through inquiring into innovative ways to meet our cluster goals and provide inspiration to their colleagues. To quote Michael Fullan 2/11/16, we are looking for "purposeful, focused and disciplined innovation".