Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1
NZTSOS New Zealand Teachers Speaking out with Science NZTSOS Inc. (New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated) say that today’s announcement by the Prime Minister of the temporary lifting/tweek of the vaccine mandates in the education sector is a minor victory in the court of public opinion.
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Lucia Sinatra Joni Ruller McGary brownstone.org Lucia is a recovering corporate securities attorney. After becoming a mother, Lucia turned her attention to fighting inequities in public schools in California for students with learning disabilities. Joni Ruller McGary is co-founder of NoCollegeMandates.com. It is time to end Covid-19 vaccine
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Alwyn Poole Dear Iona This is the second in a series of three letters that I have considered important to write to you in your role as Secretary for Education. As previously stated, it is an incredibly important position. (The third will delve deeply into 2021 results). I got an
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz Brain science, genuine learning theory, understanding of needed family dynamics and the ability to accurately fund education have all come together to create the most remarkable potential for young people in the history of humanity. This is the best time in history
As the classic 80s ad catchphrase went, “It’s your money, Ralph!” Ah, the Victorian State Bank… if only they’d made investment decisions as well as they made ads… there might still be a Victorian State Bank. The collapse of the Victorian State Bank was just one of the
Disclosure: Male, Pale and Stale has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), concerning Supply and Demand Theory as applied to Education – it has never helped him to get a job, but he is aware of how the industry operates On March 2nd 2022, in the NZ Herald, Chloe Swarbrick published
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants Dear Iona Many readers will not have name recognition for you in your role as Secretary for Education in NZ. I have noted that until last year all emails coming out from your officials had the footer: We shape an education system that delivers equitable
As Bettina Arndt and Christina Hoff-Summers are pointing out — to the screeching fury of triggered feminist frightbats everywhere — the education is systematically failing boys. Read that sentence properly: it’s the system which is failing boys. Boys might be failing schools in ever-increasing numbers, but that’s because they’re
Megan Mansell brownstone.org Megan Mansell is a former district education director over special populations integration, serving students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, undocumented, autistic, and behaviorally challenged; she also has a background in hazardous environs PPE applications. Many among us weren’t our top notch picture-perfect version of ourselves
