Aotearoa Educators Collective is an umbrella collective created to support education thought leaders who share a common interest in promoting progressive ideals in education. The group includes academics, principals and teachers and is not aligned to any political party. I urge you to support their work.

Late last night, the collective published an article by me. In that article I examine how the MAG was able to morph from an advisory group into a curriculum writing one, and in doing so co-opt the regulatory powers of government.

You can read my piece here:

The Ministerial Advisory Group takeover of the curriculum refresh

The Ministry and Minister are keen for us to see the work of this group as part of the existing refresh programme, when in actual fact it is a new body of work requiring a re-start of the process. That original work had progressed as you would expect any piece of regulatory work to progress, with extensive, repeated consultation and the inclusion of diverse voices. The MAG’s curriculum writing has none of that, and it needs it.

I think we can all agree that work as serious as the development of a national curriculum looks like what was happening, not what currently is.