Kia ora,

I feel slightly awkward doing this promo, but I want to let you know I have not stopped thinking about education and learning, and how it can be a place and process that is liberating for kids.

So, to that end, I’ve gone and started another site where I can explore my educational thinking and offer some resources that I hope will serve that ideal. It’s called Learner Threads.

What I am most excited about is something I’ve had in my mind for a while, and have slowly been working on, and that is the ‘Learner Hub’, which contains two student-focused apps which are now live:

• Learning Navigator: When students hit a roadblock, the Navigator is there. With 380 practical strategies and prompts tailored for subjects like English, Mathematics, Science, and History, it transforms frustration into growth. Students actively tap into specific learning dispositions from the framework I developed with Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon (The Magnificent Seven Positive Learning Dispositions) and see how “thinking like a (scientist/historian/mathematician…)” can help them find their next learning move.
• My Learning Reflections: This tool helps students deepen self-awareness and articulate their growth. It guides them through a simple process to capture how they learned, recognise their growing “superpowers,” and generate personal PDF learning stories they save to their device.

The Hub is browser-based so works on any device, requires no account, collects no data, and is accessed through a link and a code. For the next two weeks (until 16 July) it is free to try with this code: TRYME2

Learner Hub is priced at NZD$299/year for unlimited use across your whole school.

Or learn more here: learnerthreads.com/learner-threads-hub

Ngā mihi,

Bevan