Tuesday, May 31, 2022

May Recap

A lot has been happening in the 14 clusters across the motu and we thought we would highlight some elements of our partnership for you at the end of each month. The headlines below are brief and include links to more information if you have the inclination to explore further.

MET and its community delivery partners have now supported close to 10,000 adults to develop foundation digital skills as part of the DIA-funded Kanorau programme.   Check out the Free Digital course for Manaiakalani school communities

Jenny Oxley

The Research team is really enjoying catching up face-to-face this term at the Research Reflections and Middle Leader Sessions. We look forward to analysing rich data from the observations facilitators and school leaders are undertaking this term.

Georgie Hamilton

2022 has seen Manaiakalani Device Care take on the role of providing Accidental damage protection for over 2100 learner-owned devices purchased this year. 

How to make a claim.  


Dave Winter

The Digital Fluency Intensive is well underway with 83 teachers from across the motu learning, creating, and sharing together in term 2. Connect with current DFI cohorts or register for the remaining cohorts this year. 

Vicki Archer


We are up and running with 11,000+ learners connected to edublogs now. We appreciate the patience and commitment your teachers have through this move to a new sharing platform. 

Recent blog posts here

Dave Winter

The 2022 cohort of MIT teachers has brought some valuable projects to our network. They have been meeting regularly to support and challenge each others’ projects, both face 2 face and online.

Follow their progress

Dorothy Burt

110+ teacher registrations for the Secondary Department Discussions this year.  These online meetings are the ideal place to network with high school teachers in specialist subject areas.  

Register or view resources and recordings.

Kerry Boyde-Preece

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

empowers our young people to learn to be Cybersmart through engaging in online behaviour and thinking that elevates positive actions. Blogging Teams are connecting and sharing across our communities of learning.

See who is participating, and weekly blogging tips, and register anytime to join a team. 

Fiona Grant