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The 10%. You're obsessed. Not with being perfect - with being better. You're the one asking "but why?" in staff meetings. You try new things. You're constantly curious. You refuse to coast. This is for you.

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Wait. Who are the 10%?

The 10% swim upstream. Quietly. While everyone else drowns in complaints, you're wondering how to make tomorrow's lesson better. You care - deeply - but you've learned not to show it because caring makes you a target for cynicism. 

You're tired of pretending teaching is just a job. It's not. It's a craft. And you're one of the last ones still treating it that way. The 10% is you. 

The noise is loud right now. Come find the others who are still listening.

It's me! I am the 10%

“Teaching is a tough, all encompassing, wear your heart on your sleeve everyday gig. everyday. is here to help teachers, leaders, and people who work with our young people be inspired and make a difference for our tamariki and rangatahi everyday.“

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Readers are forced to think about where they want to be and working through the questions will help them formulate a way forward. The questions are interactive and insightful, the journal is aesthetically beautiful and you just can’t help being drawn into its pages.

Teams are invited to work together on collaborative inquiries working their way through the pages and focussing on the areas they want to improve in, together. This way they can get their beliefs and goals out on the table and then continue to share what they have tried and hold each other accountable, all the while supporting each other's growth. 

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The everyday. Story

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Initially everyday.org.nz was purchased to set up a running in schools programme.

Disheartened by the fitness levels in students and with an underlying belief that kids would enjoy more time outside (rather than in a classroom all day) Lizzie wanted to set up a running programme inspired by a programme that runs in the UK that essentially has the whole school running (or walking) together, teachers and leaders included, for 15 mins a day. In an aim to get everyone moving, everyday. Do you see what she did there? (Watch this space we are looking to set up a running programme soon - if you want to be involved email: movement@everday.org.nz)

The more Lizzie worked on her own teaching practice and the more she delved into coaching, the more she was inspired by all the cool stuff happening in Aotearoa in Education…. everyday. started to take on a different form. Still premised in the same idea of working on something habitually, making small steps in the right direction to improve. Rather than the other option that can sometimes trip us up from time to time; doing things the same way we have always done them. 

Everyday people in education, and others on the periphery have contributed to pages of everyday. And the magic lies in the coaching style questions at the end of every piece that encourage the reader to reflect on where they are in relation to the kaupapa being discussed.

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Who is everyday.

Meet Lizzie Bayliss Editor

Over her career in education Lizzie has worked in inner city schools that are fully innovative and collaborative as well as working in multicultural schools alongside bilingual children helping them with the English they need to thrive in the New Zealand Curriculum. Lizzie has worked as a Numeracy Leader and an Across School Leader in her Kāhui Ako, developing Digital Technologies and communications across schools. Through all of this she has developed a real passion for fit for purpose education, for equity in education, and for all of us to stop and think holistically about what we think the real purpose of school is. However it was her work in coaching, combined by her drive to continuously innovate and improve that led to the creation of everyday. 

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