Tag: failure

Why Don’t Half of Kids with NCEA Level 1 Meet Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks?

May 31, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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I’m not going to answer the question. But you might want to read below if you have your own ideas. I want to talk about a presentation that did the rounds today. If you click this link below, you’ll be able to download the slides. It’s on literacy and numeracy levels in relation to NCEA…
My first business was a failure… Here are five things it taught me

Mar 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in business, Education, edupreneur, entrepreneur, fail, failure

Thinking entrepreneurially isn’t something that happened instantly for me. In fact, it kind of happened by accident. I think I was dragged kicking and screaming into the business world. I started my professional life in education teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in both New Zealand and Japan. It turned out that this…