What does your kura do to celebrate Matariki? Please RT 😊 ✨

A real reminder today that ‘worksheets’ are fun. Motor skills of cutting and glueing. Plans to colour in when glue is dry. Oh, plus the literacy and numeracy skills.

Mōrena Pōneke! Plenty on in libraries today to keep you busy. This morning we have Baby Rock & Rhyme at Karori, pre-school storytime at Wadestown and Tinker Time at Tawa to start you off. To see our other events and activities for today, go to: wcl.govt.nz/about/calendar…

The more I hunt for a job, the more I realise how privileged I have been to initially be a teacher, then have contacts to draw on, and now… how precarious academia is.

Please make use of these amazing services! We were the only ones at Story time in Brandon St on Wednesday. (To be fair, lucky us!)

Don't forget tomorrow 12–6pm at Waitangi Park, we'll have a pop-up library at Pasifika Festival with contemporary titles from our collections in a range of Pacific Languages and English. We’ll also be running free Virtual Reality (VR) activities! wcl.govt.nz/blog/index.php…

⁦Yesterday, ⁦University of Otago⁩ made a monumental announcement. Prof Jacinta Ruru is the inaugural Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Congratulations! This marks an important new step for Otago - one that is critical for its aspiration to be Tiriti-led. 1/2 otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

Talk to me about the precariousness of academia… Making Massey ‘irreplaceable’ stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350173…

#teachersoftwitter I wonder if you can assist in this new research We are interested to hear from teachers about their use of #ChatGPT or other #AI that is helping them carry out tasks while prioritising their #wellbeing & #selfcare federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2u… Please share 🙏

Want to know more about Social Sciences and ANZ History? Join the #NgāKupengaRaupīaTāwhaki team at Te Papa on 6 & 7 March eventbrite.co.nz/e/nga-kupenga-…

Borrow an iPad from the library for free! Learn more on our website: bit.ly/42B4oKC

This. I’d use the rubbish word I wanted to replace, highlight it, but keep writing the sentence to capture my train of thought.

bell hooks has got me thinking about the “servant-served” relationship between black and white women, and what historical legacies and trauma similarly impact relationships between wāhine Māori and Pākehā women.

Woah… an (extremely) early version of #nerdlyf #phd thinking. Shifted a great deal from this, although one exit from this roundabout remained…

“The person who is most powerful has the privilege of denying their body.” (hooks, 1994, p. 137)