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Belinda Whyte

@beebrhyte.bsky.social
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Teacher of Literacy based in Horowhenua, NZ. Life-long learner, and lover of reading. Currently working on a Doctor of Education

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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
thedailyblog.co.nz/we-should-be... Alan hits this one out of the park.
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What New Zealand Could Learn From Finland’s Education System
Finland’s education system emphasises human development, democracy and lifelong learning. Critics argue New Zealand’s current reforms focus too narrowly on benchmarks and testing.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/nationa... Oh dear
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National Consistency feels good Erica — if you’re already winning
by Rebecca ThomasAgain and again — eight times by my count — Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon stood in front of cameras promising a nationally consistent picture of education.Clearer reporting for...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Another thought - I listened to several of King's audiobooksand was hooked that way. Some of them are read so well.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Yeah, true, it might be for some, but I like it's length, not too long, and the complete messed up-ness. Also, the way King creates such a complete world out of seemingly nothing. It's masterful.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Long Walk is a good start I think. Or Carrie or Misery. I love The Stand and think it holds up as one of the best stories of all time, but it is long. IT as well.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Concerning!
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Many schools don’t think students can read full novels any more. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan
Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/08/w...
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Why reading for pleasure matters
Comment from Victoria University: School libraries and librarians should not be viewed as optional extras but as essential for learning
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Hope you are on the mend ❤️ and yes, agree with you about our health workers
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A weird amalgamation of these? What a strange thing to have done.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We had my Dad with alzheimers come and stay for Christmas and it was hard. I admire you so much for looking after your Mum as you do.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Love this initiative!
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Disgusting change
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 26/11/2025
Stanford played a role in the writing of the senior English curriculum, reviewing documents and providing feedback to Ministry officials on at least 10 February, 14 March and 27 March.
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Stanford Admits Involvement in the Development of the Senior English Curriculum
While it is usual for a Minister to be aware of the different iterations of a curriculum, it is unusual for a Minister to have input.  And yet, this is exactly what has happened with the Engli…
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Are you guys keeping up with AEC articles? And Bevan Holloway? Excellent coverage and insight.
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 25/11/2025
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Inventing Knowledge (or, The Erica’s New Clothes)
In an interview on Morning Report on 29 October,  Just after the surprise new new curriculums  Were dumped on the sector,  Erica Stanford claimed  “there are a lot of academics who love t…
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@chewienz.bsky.social www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/tears-w... Astounding
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Tears Weren’t About the Fight
by ELVOn the way home, I cried.Tears stung the unhealed cold sore on my lip,and the aircon dried them hard against my chin.I didn’t cry because I was exhausted from breaking up a fight before morning ...
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 25/11/2025
When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience. It is a breach of trust.
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Tears Weren’t About the Fight
by ELVOn the way home, I cried.Tears stung the unhealed cold sore on my lip,and the aircon dried them hard against my chin.I didn’t cry because I was exhausted from breaking up a fight before morning ...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/aecnz/p/... My my my
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Inventing Knowledge (or, The Erica’s New Clothes)
In an interview on Morning Report on 29 October, Just after the surprise new new curriculums Were dumped on the sector, Erica Stanford claimed “there are a lot of academics who love this curriculum”. ...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Also - isn't that a Principal's job? To listen to their community? I mean, bullying isn't the right way to go about it of course, but if an issue is important to the community, the principal probably should hear about it.
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 24/11/2025
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Stanford Admits Involvement in the Development of the Senior English Curriculum
While it is usual for a Minister to be aware of the different iterations of a curriculum, it is unusual for a Minister to have input.  And yet, this is exactly what has happened with the Engli…
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15/11/2025
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!" Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource. When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"research has shown that merit pay produces negative consequences without the positives promised" Wow,so pleased NZ are heading this way - not!
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/erica-s...
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Erica’s Play for Teacher Performance Pay — The Real Teaching Council Takeover
by ELVURGENT INTEL — Erica Stanford is making a play for teacher performance-related pay — and we know this.We said it before about the Curriculum Shitshow.We proved it with the Learning First intel (...
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 10/11/2025
Erica Stanford wants to link your child’s academic performance to their teacher’s ability to make their mortgage payments.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/11/09/w...
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Why Erica Stanford’s curriculum changes are soooooooooooo racist (and dangerous) | The Daily Blog
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 07/11/2025
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Recolonising the Classroom
Te Akatea President Bruce Jepsen on the Draft Curriculum: Waatea News Interview
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A MUST listen. You want a summary of the devastating list of recolonisation of our education. waateanews.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bruce Jepsen | Cuccirculum changes perpetuate racism and deepen inequities in education
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Horrific nonsense like this is apparently now ok. Vomitous racist drivvle.
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How advanced was Māori civilisation? | Kiwiblog
Something I have been interested in is trying to get a better understanding of what life was like for Maori in New Zealand before Abel Tasman made contact in 1642. By then Maori had been in New Zealan...
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 06/11/2025
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Phonics Data and Te Tiriti: Stanford’s Abdication of Responsibility
In response to questions put to her by Debbie Ngarewa Packer in the House today about the removal of Te Tiriti o Waitangi from the Education and Training Act, Erica Stanford, she made the following…
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 05/11/2025
MJ was challenged when he referred to the bs phonics data as proof the changes were working. He responded with anger. He wasn’t invited to speak about boys achievement. He chose to do so. His presentation put boys poor achievement down to the strong female culture in schools. Nothing else.
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Behind the education overhaul: Outcry reveals deep divisions in the sector
Criticism is overblown and not a reflection of what the sector thinks, according to a key player in the curriculum rewrite.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Still waiting on Mike to let us know what some female gender norm behaviors are...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
He still didn't come across well with those points missed!
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/b... What a numpty
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Behind the education overhaul
Today from The Detail: A key player in the curriculum rewrite says the criticism is overblown - and not a reflection of what the sector thinks
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/03/a...
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Are students suffering the side-effects of the bug infecting education policy?
Analysis: As the Govt looks to comparable jurisdictions for answers on its education questions, data suggests this won't solve the problem
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/how-the...
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How the Ministry Collapsed Trust in Our Curriculum Process
by ELVWe are loving the open letters and the passionate campaign to refuse to teach the shocking curriculum. It’s heart-warming to see some of us trying to make the best of it—trying to hold the line ...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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What Actually Happened on the Curriculum Roadshow? A Knowledge-Rich Love Story
by ELV​​We’ve all been waiting, haven’t we? For someone — anyone — from Camp Roadshow to step forward and tell us what really went on. Not the soundbites, not the policy gloss, but the actual story be...
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What is left of us is ❤️
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Love this slight mispronounced word from a student - indiGENIUS for indigenous! #UpLiftEd
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What the actual...? And I say that as someone who was fascinated by history at this age level, as some kids are, but even then would have found it bizarre to be being taught it in school in this way.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Is this for real? Unbelievable!
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm off to the @aec.org.nz conference today, #UpLiftEd So excited to hear from so many excellent speakers and meet up with intelligent, like-minded folk. Ngā mihi nui o te Ata koutou!
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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 27/10/2025
Tomorrow more curricula get released. There has been no consultation. As a result, voices have been missing from their development. That includes the voices of students. Here, two Pasifika learners show us what hasn’t been heard.
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The Future Speaks: Lessons from the Learners
A contribution by Guest Student Writers, Lyanne Metuli Tuluauau and Helen Nansen.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This school sounds disturbing, like the premise for a Stephen King novel.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Oddly, warping reality, I would suggest.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Levin is out! Ka pai ō mahi! #nzed #nzei
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today, I strike. My position was disestablished recently - a position stretched thin already to support multiple schools, teachers, & students with literacy now no longer exists. Next year there will be no equivalent position, tamariki will suffer, & teachers will have even more to contend with.
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Belinda Whyte @beebrhyte.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/10/21/e...
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Erica Stanford is 100% wrong about public education and NCEA | The Daily Blog
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