Learning From Each Other - A final report - Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga and Martyn Reynolds

In this interactive and fluid research, groups of teachers took different paths, particularly in the second year of the initiative, drawing attention to the value of negotiated, responsive research to meet community and teachers’ needs on the ground. [...] The findings show the productivity of a PLD model that brings together motivated teachers, a talanoa approach to safe space for dialogue, the voices of Pacific communities corroborated and clarified by research, sufficient opportunities to learn, and a growth mindset that values learning as a way of improving the self—individual, social, and professional. [...] A cultural broker in this context refers to a member of the KA Pacific community willing and able to work in the space between the KA and Pacific community members. [...] The final session of the year included a performance by the Pacific student group of the host school to complement the participating teachers’ feedback. [...] RQ4—Focus: What are the dynamics that support the translation of improved Pacific students’ educational experiences to other valued outcomes? The first three RQs have been answered by indicating the range of what was learnt from Pacific people during the research by teachers, the benefits of that learning to Pacific students, and by taking a wide lens to the way Pacific students’ educational exper.