The first of a series of CORE breakfasts was delivered by De Thomas and Whare Wano today in Christchurch. The seminar addressed Māori students’ strengths and the common elements within a school’s teaching and learning programme at which they excel.

Chris Jansen from the University of Canterbury opened the Christchurch CORE Breakfast seminar season speaking to the subject: Re-thinking organisation post-earthquakes. 

Cyberbullying occurs, most often, outside the school gates, but ignoring it is preparing fertile ground for other forms of bullying inside the school gates.

Nick Rate spoke at the recent CORE Breakfast in Wellington on "A framework for developing e-portfolios". He discussed how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching, and open up new and different ways of learning.

Are today's schools special enough to survive in the 21st century digital landscape? Will they be immune from the transformative forces that are radically shifting every single other information oriented sector of our society, asks leading international educationalist, Dr Scott McLeod.

Derek Wenmoth, Director of e-learning at CORE Education, concluded the CORE Breakfast schedule in both Christchurch and Wellington this week speaking on CORE's Ten Trends

The education learning and teaching benefits and excellent features of TKI's Digistore and Software for Learning web sites were demonstrated to large audiences at the CORE Breakfast seminars in both Dunedin and Wellington September 15 and 17 respectively.

Principals, teachers and other education professionals in Christchurch were challenged by Ewan McIntosh in his presentation on “How do we plan for & teach emerging literacies?”