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PPTA News: the Magazine

Melanie Webber service award

June 5, 2025

To honour Melanie Webber’s outstanding contribution to PPTA Te Wehengarua, the national executive has created a new service award.

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CLR teachers

PPTA News: the Magazine

Valuing the mahi

June 5, 2025

The community liaison role trial acknowledges the mahi that teachers do over and above their teaching and is greatly appreciated.

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Sustainability in action

June 5, 2025

There is something growing at Rongotai College, and it isn’t just the tomatoes, writes James Richardson.

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PPTA News: the Magazine

Time for branch resolutions against charter schools

April 7, 2025

All PPTA branches are being urged to pass a resolution as soon as possible against charter school conversion

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PPTA News: the Magazine

Outstanding branch activist

March 26, 2025

Lisa Murphy is the 2024 recipient of the Guy Allan award for outstanding branch activism

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PPTA News: the Magazine

It's all about relationships

June 18, 2024

Keeping the branch together and everyone moving in the same direction during tense industrial times makes John Dyer-Causton a worthy winner of the PPTA Te Wehengarua Guy Allan award

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Jeremy Foster

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Charter schools create unlevel playing field - a US teacher's experience

June 18, 2024

A charter school’s selection criteria and lack of facilities for students with diverse needs created a two-tier system of public schooling, Jeremy Foster found

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AI - not what you know but how fast you can learn

June 18, 2024

The increasing development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) means that the most valuable skill emerging now is adaptability, not knowledge - that was one of the key messages from AI academic Dr Simon McCallum to PPTA Te Wehengarua regional officers at the Issues and Organising seminar earlier this year.

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Benefits of belonging

May 1, 2024

Belonging to your subject association is a great way to keep up to date with developments in your subject area and make valuable connections

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