Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 12/08/2026"The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union aims to influence government spending, through public campaigns, media engagement and direct lobbying" Civics, Year 8. NZ’s knowledge rich curriculum. 041
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 03/07/2026The point and purpose of education isn’t what parents get but what happens day after day in the classroom. And for that to go well you need pros, not programmes. 181
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 20/06/2026I should have added more to that comment. 🤦♂️ I def don’t think they should have to follow advice. My crudely put point was that it she’s playing the ‘I didn’t get the advised well’ card here, which carries the implication she would have taken it, when in education she’s ignored most of it. 120
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 20/06/2026Yes, I find the INZ issue particularly ironic given her attitude to official advice in education (ie, ignores all but what fits her agenda). 150
Reposted by Bevan HollowayAbe Moore @arbay38.bsky.social · 19/06/2026“Why are they not up in arms at the squandering of their children's vitality, curiosity and their righteous indignation?” This. How much of Ss affect for learning is dictated by framing? Do we teach the curriculum to kids, or teach kids with the curriculum? The framing absolutely matters. 121
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 14/06/2026Maybe it’ll be video cameras in every room and Erica can monitor them from her office. 100
Reposted by Bevan HollowayAbe Moore @arbay38.bsky.social · 14/06/2026A lot of wasted $$$. All those resources and programs are now gone. Complete 180 to child-focused pedagogy and systems from leaders who actually have backgrounds in education. 041
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 14/06/2026Not enough people here are guessing, and it’s a massive problem. How did it work out? 110
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 13/06/2026The 80% isn’t a research finding — it’s an arbitrary number that everyone, including the people issuing it, knows is arbitrary. 80% is a confession, not a finding. The number exists to make compliance auditable and deviation punishable. It is a loyalty test. open.substack.com/pub/aecnz/p/... 2113
Reposted by Bevan HollowayShell @risu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Words 13 -15 year olds didn’t know this week : Facilities / impeccable/and difference in pronunciation between nobly and knobbly. Because no one reads to children and they all get told to use online tools not books. We have to bring back books and JOY into education 2123
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 07/06/2026You cannot scope-and-sequence your way to a child with something to say. You can only water the roots. AI has just given away the performance layer of schooling for free. What remains is the question we have been able to avoid: does the child have anything to say.bevanholloway.substack.comThe cloth and the loom and what the child has to sayOn reform, remembering, and what schools cannot scope-and-sequence 092
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 07/06/2026How does a student learn they have nothing to say? By reading for achievement. By sitting still. By facing the front. By being assessed. By learning that the teacher already knows the answer. By being right in the way you were told to be right. By being wrong in ways that are marked. 182
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 07/06/2026How does a student get something to say? By reading and playing and experimenting and talking and imagining and observing and questioning and listening. By being in the world. By feeling. By being wrong. By being right. 13111
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 06/06/2026Just finished Chloe Dalton’s book Raising Hare. What a beautiful, sympathetic, touching and wise book. www.chloedalton.uk/raising-harechloedalton.ukRaising Hare | Discover & Protect Hares – Read More — Chloe DaltonExplore Chloe Dalton's Raising Hare, an award-winning international bestseller about wildlife, nature, and slowing down 021
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 04/06/2026At what point does information become propaganda? And if you were a listener, would you have wanted to know about the deep connection to the Minister’s office?substack.comSchool Shorts, Stanford's Office, and the Necessity of Parent PersuasionHow the lines between policy communication and podcast content were blurred 020
Reposted by Bevan HollowayDr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The Atlas will have whole teams of lawyers poring over the constitutions and laws of target countries to find vulnerabilities to exploit, and ways of running soft, slow or fast coups against democratic norms and any restrictions or limits on fossil capital. 2158
Reposted by Bevan HollowayDr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026HOW IT STARTED I was interviewed by @mihiforbes.bsky.social on Mata Reports/TVNZ (Jan 2024), & warned Kiwis of the assault on Maori, the constitution (Treaty of Waitangi) & climate policy to be expected from the oily #AtlasNetwork's infiltration of NZ govt. Pls watch! www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/m...rnz.co.nzMata Reports: Episode 5 - Trick or TreatyThe fate of the Treaty of Waitangi is teetering on the brink of a popular vote, as the new coalition government pledges to introduce a Treaty Principles Bill, potentially triggering a referendum. 26139
Reposted by Bevan Hollowayᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com · 01/06/2026"As the song ends, a quote appears across the screen. 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible' – Peter Thiel, chairman of Palantir." novaramedia.com/2026/06/01/m...novaramedia.comMassive Attack Is Taking Aim at PalantirLegendary trip-hop group Massive Attack is using an artistic rendering of notorious spy-tech firm Palantir’s own product against it. Gary McQuiggin reports. 411361459
Reposted by Bevan HollowayAndrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The more this kind of behaviour happens, the stronger the case for ensuring that a regulatory regime for lobbying doesn't just apply to ministers, but also to officials. Got to think about the cost-benefit analysis, but if there's untrustworthy behaviour, possibly friction is a price worth paying? 1249
Reposted by Bevan HollowayCool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The coalition is intentionally trying to hide their corruption. They know how bad it is and don’t want anyone to know it #nzpol 0177
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 02/06/2026Time for us all to brush up on these. snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyrannysnyder.substack.comOn TyrannyTwenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 161
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 02/06/2026Related note of note: Erica Stanford also made extensive use of her personal email. Another trick she has used is to have a senior advisor call someone from their phone, and then hop on the call. These are not 'one offs' or 'slip ups' or 'memory lapses' or 'sloppiness'. 28722
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 02/06/2026Just days before giving a Dame-hood to Elizabeth Rata, Erica Stanford's inspiration, Michael Gove, signs off on this for the magazine he is editor of. 183
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 02/06/2026Disgusting. And our education minister worships him. 020
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026Myself and a few others have done the work. We can help you out. 110
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026That’s good to hear. The story is bigger than that though. No one has held Stanford’s feet to the coals over her actions, which have been condemned by the Stage One Waitangi Tribunal report, with the Stage Two report likely to be worse. 230
Reposted by Bevan HollowayNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Rata’s version of a knowledge-rich curriculum precludes critical thinking. Having your kids learn from a workbook designed by a corporation, not involving your children’s teachers, is a fucking nightmare. I will never teach to a textbook. They’re a tool, not a curriculum #nzpol 03711
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026And now I have to decide to let it go or not. Eight months it’s sat there! 110
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026Nope. Not RNZ. Not Stuff. The only one who has got close is Hanna McCallum at Newsroom. 071
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026Yes. It was part of my brief of evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal as well. (Maybe the honour is a designed as a bit of pre-emptive reputation laundering before their Stage Two report lands.) 170
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026People, being patient, building responsive, accepting classroom cultures, mean a classroom becomes a space where trust reigns. That’s how learning becomes deeper, and achievement lifts. Not workbooks. Not a scope and sequence. Not a [inset subject] kit. Not a knowledge-rich curriculum. 1287
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026Te Tiriti is what ensures this for Māori. In ensuring this for Māori, teachers get to feel what it’s like to have learners trust them. Trust me, that feels good. 1175
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026A child won’t tell you what they really need if they don’t trust you. And they only trust you if they feel safe with you. And they feel safe with you when they know that you see and accept who they are. And this happens when who they are – their culture, background, interests – is visible and valued 14510
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dame Liz.open.substack.comRecapturing the Senior English CurriculumWho swapped Māori and Pacific authors for Shakespeare? 53014
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 01/06/2026You’ll find it in here (page 18). drive.google.com/file/d/10zHf...drive.google.comESOIA365 Rata Stanford July 25.pdf 000
Reposted by Bevan HollowayCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Correction to my previous post, giving Elizabeth Rata a Damehood for services to Education is like giving Andrew Wakefield a Knighthood for services to Vaccines. 18720
Reposted by Bevan HollowayRachael Ka’ai-Mahuta @rachaelkm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Dame Elizabeth Rata now. White supremacy pays dividends under this government. 1358
Reposted by Bevan HollowayBevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 30/05/2026At what point does information become propaganda? And if you were a listener, would you have wanted to know about the deep connection to the Minister’s office?bevanholloway.substack.comSchool Shorts, Stanford's Office, and the Necessity of Parent PersuasionHow the lines between policy communication and podcast content were blurred 01112
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 31/05/2026I've heard. It's hilarious. Handing themselves out prizes for being good little ideologues. And all before we know if it's worked*. How fragile. * Actually –– this is Johnston's second crack, having been a National Standards architect, so we do know. His is for participation, not achievement. 040
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 31/05/2026Here’s how I sum up the Budget for education. Hundreds of millions are being spent on things that are lifeless: workbooks, kits, strategies, assessment. Nothing on relationships and connection. 2213
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 30/05/2026At what point does information become propaganda? And if you were a listener, would you have wanted to know about the deep connection to the Minister’s office?bevanholloway.substack.comSchool Shorts, Stanford's Office, and the Necessity of Parent PersuasionHow the lines between policy communication and podcast content were blurred 01112
Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 29/05/2026Kids are really being ripped off when the best the Budget can do for them is music kits and workbooks. 071
