He Tira Tautoko mō Te Kōtiu 2022-2025
TE KŌTIU- TE KĀHUI KURA KAUPAPA MĀORI o TAI TOKERAU
Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tai Tokerau Tono Tautoko 17.5.22
9 Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tai Tokerau
Ngā Ringa o Matariki
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Rāwhitiroa
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Taumārere
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tonga ki Hokianga
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Pukemiro
Te Rangi Āniwaniwa
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tūtūtarakihi
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Whangaroa
Background – Te Kōtiu – Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tai Tokerau
- In 1991 our first KKM in Kaikohe was established by Renata Tane.
- In 2015 Tumuaki KKM established a regional Kahui Tumuaki Kura Kaupapa Maori initially
to network and support each other in a Te Aho Matua educational kaupapa Māori setting. Although a COL application was turned down due to “geographical distance”, Te Kōtiu has continued and Tumuaki KKM meet once a term.
- 2016 Rangiāwhia was closed. KKM Tai Tokerau were reduced to 8. This action caused great concern, mindfulness and loss within the KKM and wider Maori community.
- 2018, Tututarakihi was formed as a kura peka taiao until such time as they gain mana motuhake status- recommended December 2019.
- Another kura peka has signalled its enthusiasm to start in 2020 within Ngati Kahu.
- 2019, Te Tonga o Hokianga after many years of court battle, open their new building at Koutu and change their name to Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hokianga.
- 2019 , 1400 tauira Aho Matua attend Wiki Hākinakina in Te Hiku
- 2019, Te Kōtiu sends contract proposal He Tira Tautoko mō Te Kōtiu 2020-2022
- 2022-2022- Te Kōtiu have provided inter collegial tautoko during Covid- a rohe a -motu;
- 2021, 60 children on the waiting list in Te Hiku, classrooms will take one year plus to remedy teaching shortage space of 2021’s roll.
- Tai Tokerau Māori Education Authority lodged in Mana Wahine Waitangi Tribunal Claim by author- to address 6 generations of lost Reo Māori potential.
- 2022:
- Tūtūtarakihi gains status as a kura kaupapa Māori, roll numbers limited due to lack of classes, search for site that fits their future needs
- Ngaringao Matariki bless their land in Kaiwaka readiness for buildings 2023- their school has been substandard for over 10 years
- New kura kaupapa Māori needed in Te Hiku, mid North, Whangarei to cater for growing numbers of whānau returning home in many cases without housing options. Extra classes will soon not fit on kura grounds.
- Urgent Kura Kaupapa Māori claim before the Waitangi Tribunal
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari taku toa he toa takimano
2) 2022, Te Kōtiu represents :
4% of Tai Tokerau students,1200 tamariki from y 1-13 from Wellsford to Te Hapua;
diverse Iwi and hapu from Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu , Ngāti Kura, Te Rarawa, Ngai Takoto, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupouri and Ngāti Kuri.
40+ years of Te Reo Māori Movement resilience in Tai Tokerau starting from Te Kore in substandard Kohanga Reo and kura buildings, equipped with determination and nil putea, our sites have delivered higher standards of education in Mātauranga Māori friendly environments. We have homegrown over 160 kaiako and require relevant teacher training courses in a local setting to keep up with the demand of increasing numbers of tamariki returning home.
High Performing Schools – no-one fails– students learn the principles of Te Aho Matua. There is good expertise within KKM Tai Tokerau who can provide good advice and tautoko with other KKM.
3) Te Kōtiu – Reality 30 years later , it is still tough in KKM Tai Tokerau and we want to plan our way forward for the next 30 years.
All KKM run on passion and drive and are self -sufficient from necessity .
- Kura Kaupapa Māori Tai Tokerau are inter-connected and inter-dependent for our survival. We want to coordinate, plan, consult , employ our own facilitators for the task of conducting and planning our own rautaki for the next 30 years. We do not want to be sucked up into anyone else’s agenda or have anyone who thinks they know our kaupapa to speak nor interpret on our behalf. We know what we have endured and we cannot suffer the same indifference for a further 30 years. We do not intend to mark time while the mainstream agenda tries to catch up with their Māoriness or lack of it.
- For sustainability we advocate two things:
- Establishment and resourcing of Te Tai Tokerau Māori Education Authority as a Tiriti Right (article 2) and guaranteed in the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (articles 3,13, 14) to umbrella Matauranga Māori schooling from Kohanga Reo to Wānanga within the territories of Tai Tokerau. Te MEA was advocated in 1999 by Te Reo o Tai Tokerau Māori Education Advisory Group to Te Putahitanga Matauranga. Te MEA would be a parallel service for Kaupapa Mātauranga Māori Schooling and would utilise Māori education monies afforded to support services and students learning in Kura Kaupapa Māori.
- He Rautaki Matauranga Māori mō Te Tai Tokerau to plan for the next 30 years of Kura Kaupapa Māori by Kura Kaupapa Reo Māori. We acknowledge there will be 4-5 takiwā of Tai Tokerau : Te Hiku, Whangaroa- Kerikeri, Mid North Kaikohe, Hokianga, and Whangarei Dargaville . We aim to prepare for continuity past the pioneers; succession, recruitment of quality kaiako and retention of staff in a positive Matauranga Māori schooling environment.
● Te Kōtiu support the growth of relevant kaiako Mātauranga Māori training providers – that recognise the imput and abilities of kaiāwhina, kaiārahi and matanga reo who are willing to train on site within their kura to become quality kaiako.1
● KKM support Wānanga Māori to run Reo and Tikanga programmes for whānau so the responsibility does not fall on kaiako kkm and teaching staff.
● KKM are kura spaces for children’s learning to be ready for Te Ao Māori in a modern setting. Tauira are not the kaumātua or kuia. One of our tasks is to bring in youth advisors to assist tauira in practical strategies to deal with stress , anxiety, disappointment and put downs in a teenage setting.
● Tamariki KKM are educated in substandard make do classrooms- for many years . Most Pakeha parents would not tolerate the conditions our tamariki put up with.
Tumuaki KKM Tai Tokerau require many levels of support:
● Responsibilities pile up and due to staffing shortage and lack of
relievers Tumuaki are often unable to attend hui, PLD and networking hui.
● Only 1 Tumuaki KKM Tai Tokerau has ever gained a sabbatical 2
leave or study award Ill health, stress and anxiety amongst Tumuaki is high. Te Kōtiu recommend Tumuaki KKM Tai Tokerau are awarded 2
sabbatical positions each year to fill; and study leave every 4 years.
Kaikohe KKM self funded a sabbatical hauora for their Tumuaki in 2017.
● In 6/7 wharekura, there is an absence of kaiako to deliver level 2-3 in the subjects of science, maths, information technology and phys ed.3
Hauora: KKM are auahi kore, parakore, tarutaru /pi kore and Māori friendly.
● Tumuaki and staff become creative in curriculum delivery however they do not have the support systems of big schools where teachers are handed their teaching outlines and assessments. In kkm it can take up to 80 hours without interruption in an isolated space to write up one assessment.
● Some Wānanga Māori provide relevant programmes that we kkm could utilise; ie level 2-3 sports and fitness certificates; computing levels 2-3; but strict funding guidelines surrounding FTTes prevent KKM for signing up with Wānanga Māori to deliver within our kura. This is a potential win-win space for kkm and Wānanga Māori.
● Te Kōtiu require time and space to co- design appropriate Mātauranga Māori programmes in a local setting- acknowledging contested histories in a positive manner, what is relevant in a modern setting for community wellbeing. For example, a locally based fibre glass waka hourua will revitalise the waka navigation history and practices within the Pacific.
● PLD provision and Tumuaki guidance support is always needed for meeting compliance obligations and assisting in innovative practice .4
● At a national level equitable funding for Te Runanga Nui would enable them to advocate and secure programmes on our behalf.
● At a local level funding Te Kōtiu will provide practical local support on the ground for KKM Tumuaki that we don’t have, never have had and should have .5
- Te Kōtiu have advocated with NZEI to have paid study leave every 5 years for kaiako, with wider Mātauranga Māori study options.
● Te Kōtiu Tira Tautoko 22-25 would enable the region to plan a plan of action for the sustainability of KKM within Tai Tokerau 2022-2052- KKM are staffed in many cases by raukura returning to Tai Tokerau who want to be responsible parents themselves.
” The younger generation of kkm kaiako are wanting to spend time with their own tamariki. Emails turn off at 4.00pm; after hours mahi is restricted for family time; weekends are sacred; kaiako want to connect with their own hapu/wider whānau and kaiako will be available for set kura trips and events- but not every event. It is more possible to live up to some Māori expectations rather than all the responsibilities that can be shared by the wider Māori community. I support this trend of kaiako kkm practice as my own whānau remind me how much I gave for the greater good at their expense. “6
Contract Proposal to Minister of Education May 2022:
Te Kōtiu recommend funding of He Tira Tautoko mō Te Kōtiu 2022-2050 to deliver the following outcomes to support the sustainability and improved curriculum of Kura Kaupapa Māori o Tai Tokerau.
Ngā Hua : Tai Tokerau Outcomes
a) Kura Kaupapa Māori Education Pathway 2022-2050 He Rautaki 30 Tau – Consult and develop a 30 year strategic regional plan with other stakeholders of kura kaupapa Māori Tai Tokerau. To facilitate regional hui with Kohanga Reo , Puna Reo, ECE Reo Māori who actively send tauira to kura kaupapa Māori; Kura a Iwi, Wānanga Māori , local hauora, PTEs, ITOs, Iwi , youth and social services.
i) How many new Kohanga Reo/ ECE Reo, Kura a Iwi, kkm/ wharekura are expected to develop in Tai Tokerau by 2050? Identify institutional and local obstacles to the development of new kkm and improvements within Kohanga Reo or other ECE Reo Māori providers.
ii) What resourcing needs are required to lift and maintain a good standard of Reo and Tikanga in Tai Tokerau until 2050: staffing infrastructure, retention and skill levels, professional learning needs, buildings, support services, whānau housing ?
iii) Identify and integrate local Te Aho Matua curriculum needs to strengthen KKM Tai Tokerau;
iv) Provide Mātauranga Māori research guidelines for mentoring 20 years of quality reo succession planning.
b) Build Kotahitanga within KKM Tai Tokerau.
i) Coordinate 2 whole inter kkm PLD Teacher only days per annum. Te Kōtiu have committed to put aside 2 days in first 2 terms of each year. (Each kura will continue to tono for their own internal PLD needs).
ii) Share good practice of Te Aho Matua curriculum, kura teina, NCEA high achievement and robust hua ako;
iii) Share assessment tools, financial planning, internal communication systems, sms programmes and systems to sustain high student achievement in Tai Tokerau.
iv) Enable Board chairpersons and members to meet twice a year to provide shared mentoring in relevant KKM hui.
c) Manaakitanga – Tumuaki Support – provide or source PLD support for new and experienced Tumuaki to meet local curriculum goals, annual plans, appraisals, self reviews, personnel policies, managing conflict, prepare for sabbaticals/ study leave.
d) Wānanga- Convene hui to plan and design integrated Mātauranga Māori Te Aho Matua programmes and curriculum appropriate & relevant for Tai Tokerau tauira ie Kaitiakitanga, Waka Navigation, Te Whakaputanga- Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Post Settlement ; Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu; Māori Enterprise with social and environmental responsibility, Marae Management Responsibilities and Toi Auaha.
e) Noho Mātauranga – Coordinate noho and delivery of learning areas for some wharekura tauira to access core subjects and enriched learning that is not available within their kura staff:
i) Wananga noho for some wharekura to access subject delivery ie level 2-3 science, Maths, Tikanga a Iwi, Reo Rangatira.
ii) Source funding to host 2 x Kura Reo a year for wharekura students; one for year 9-10 tauira; one for year 11-13.
f) Hui Tahi – Convene Te Kōtiu hui once a term to confirm common annual priorities for Tai Tokerau region; for planning and updating Tumuaki, Boards and senior managers on KKM responsibilities, compliances and dealing with difficult issues proactively.
g) Whai Tautoko– Engage with Te Runanga Nui re the protection of Te Aho Matua curriculum
MOE departments and other entities re new possible ventures that will assist in supporting KKM Tumuaki, Boards , submissions, chronic staffing shortages and whānau development. For example : our own social worker (whānau support systems) based in our kura; more regular mobile dental health and hearing visits 6 monthly instead of every two years, access to hearing and optometry tests etc. Tautoko for grandparents raising mokopuna and readying seniors for leaving school and transitioning to tertiary and Trades.
1 EBITE Te Kōtiu have developed a Te Aho Matua fit template for Tumuaki and Kaiako appraisal that meet updated requirements. and Wānanga Mātauranga Māori, Te Rūnanga Nui approved options
2 Puti Gardiner, Rangiāwhia KKM 2015
3 Te Kōtiu advertised for science and maths teachers registration of interest August 2019 and received 3 applications.
4 Tumuaki share good templates with each other
5 Te Kōtiu advertised for maths and science teachersAug 2019. This means limited access for kkm students to health and maths careers.
6 H Halkyard-Harawira – interviews with raukura 2018. Some raukura are turning down management roles in favour of raising their own children after hours.
Nā H Halkyard- Harawira
Te Kōtiu 