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"Ask the kid." It’s a mantra everyone in our cluster knows by heart. From my very first day as an RTLB, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS) has been part of my way of being. I still remember Day 1, when my Cluster Manager, Kelly McGowan, handed me her copy of Dr Ross Greene’s Lost at School. My CPS radar was switched on. As someone who has never been a fan of traditional, punitive consequences, CPS felt like the ultimate, mana-enhancing framework to bring genuine unde

“Language matters.” This is a catchphrase I first heard from my Practice Leader, Fiona Harkness, within the Te Tai Tokerau ki te Tonga RTLB Cluster 2 and one which I soon came to adopt and use myself. It is also an idea that Fiona subsequently explored in her Master’s thesis, Language Matters: Developing Inclusive, Strengths-Based Practice in an RTLB Cluster (2019), and in the article, “Language Matters: Developing Inclusive, Strengths-Based Practice in a Cluster of Resource

Usually, I don’t write a Shitty First Draft (SFD). When things get tough, I usually just try and think things through, not write anything...

The concept of evolving my own professional identity is something I candidly wrote about in one of my previous blogs . RTLB and other...

Last Friday, I spoke with a colleague who shared a quiet but powerful moment from an interview she conducted with a high school student....

Climbing a mountain is a powerful metaphor for learning and growth. From the base, it’s hard to see the path ahead clearly, let alone...