Videos
Rowan discusses the 'why' of school
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Rowan discusses Project Based Learning
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Rowan discusses her research
into future-focused secondary schools |
Podcasts
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Avoiding the Overwhelm When Teaching in Lockdown (April 2020)
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This week was a start back to online school for students around the country. We know teachers will have been feeling more nervous than students so Adrienne Buckingham talked to Rowan Taigel, experienced educator and wellbeing facilitator with NZIWR and
What If PLD, about advice for teachers this week. Her focus on high tolerance and low expectations, establishing the basics, practising self-compassion and being willing to get it wrong are just as helpful for the adults of students going back to school. In this new territory, we all need to lower expectations, be kind to ourselves and each other, and even have some fun. |
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Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Problem Based Learning (March 2020)
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This was the challenge Rowan Taigel took on when she turned the curriculum, and the traditional approach to NCEA, upside down – focusing first on the problems students wanted to solve, then the skills they needed to do that, and engaging them to find their own solutions. Rowan explains to Denise why building relationships and students learning about their strengths and values were at the heart of this programme’s success. Listen as Rowan describes how students, parents, and teachers appreciated this approach where students got to drive their own learning, with one student describing the course as “the reason I come to school”.
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Publications
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Tradition to Transformation-
How traditional secondary schools are breaking ground in 21st Century education 
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Spiralling into Collaboration
Rowan shares her knowledge around collaborative spirals of inquiry drawing on her journey leading this framework at her school. 
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Seriously, what is school for?
Are we catering for the superheroes of the future? 
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Able to Launch
Rowan discusses Agile methodology & Project Based Learning 
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