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- How school leaders sustain excellence in planning year after year
- Successful curriculum planning with iUgo
- Need to adopt a flexible online curriculum planner tool? Try iUgo
- How iUgo supports teachers in navigating the refreshed curriculum
- How iUgo transforms lesson planning to maximise efficiency for New Zealand teachers
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4 simple steps for transitioning students from primary to secondary school with iUgo
If you are preparing to transition students from primary to secondary school, these 4 simple steps and quick how-to videos can help simplify the planning process and ensure that your students are ready for their next educational milestone.
How school leaders sustain excellence in planning year after year
Discover a practical four-step strategy that helps school leaders sustain high-quality, consistent planning to support teachers and lift student outcomes.
Successful curriculum planning with iUgo
Tired of juggling curriculum change and diverse planning? iUgo keeps your team’s plans clear, consistent and collaborative. Stay on track and support your school’s unique needs.
Need to adopt a flexible online curriculum planner tool? Try iUgo
Feeling bogged down by lesson planning? Discover how iUgo can simplify your school’s planning, save time and keep your team in sync.
How iUgo supports teachers in navigating the refreshed curriculum
Implementing a refreshed curriculum can be challenging. See how one school used iUgo to simplify planning, boost confidence, and embrace change, without the overwhelm.
How iUgo transforms lesson planning to maximise efficiency for New Zealand teachers
New Zealand teachers, simplify lesson planning with iUgo! This digital teacher planner boosts efficiency and organisation. Read this blog to learn how iUgo can support your teaching.
Aligning with the curriculum: Using iUgo to meet New Zealand educational standards
Learn how iUgo simplifies lesson planning and aligns with the New Zealand Curriculum. Read the blog to explore how it supports key competencies and subject standards.
Navigating Te Mātaiaho – The refreshed New Zealand Curriculum with the iUgo Planner
Discover how the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum, Te Mātaiaho, transforms teaching with flexible, inclusive practices, supported by iUgo’s comprehensive unit plans and flexible planning tools.
How to plan and implement Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum
Let’s embark on a journey from planning to implementation of the Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum with the help of iUgo.
Curriculum mapping software: what all schools need to know
To create the best learning environment for students, schools need to have a curriculum mapping system in place to collect exactly what teachers are detailing for their curriculum related objectives, such as achievement objectives or competencies from the New Zealand or TMOA curricula.
Program update: Te Mātaiaho, the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum is ready to go
The refreshed New Zealand Curriculum learning areas have been released and are ready to be accessed and used within the iUgo Planner. Discover how iUgo’s curriculum mapping allows you to easily review your curriculum coverage.
The New Religious Education Curriculum: To Tātou Whakapono Our Faith
Many catholic schools around New Zealand are now beginning to explore planning for the new national curriculum for religious education – To Tātou Whakapono Our Faith. With the finalised drafts now set in place, this curriculum has been added to the iUgo digital teacher planner. Achievement Objectives are intrinsically linked to learning intentions and all have been mapped according to relevant phases of learning.
The best planning tool for teachers just got even better
The best digital teacher planning tool is now even better! iUgo’s Weekly Planner and Filebox have always been teacher favourites. But they have just received numerous visual upgrades and a bunch of enhancements to make teacher planning even easier.
Your guide to teacher planning: iUgo Planner overview
Writing a teaching plan is like no other kind of plan. iUgo was purposely created to make curriculum and teacher planning easier.
The easy way to create teacher timetables and schedules
This is the final blog in our three-part series on teacher planning. It brings together all the aspects of planning to determine exactly what you are going to teach, when. Discover how to make this really easy within your wider school timetable, no matter what level or subject you teach.
Teacher planning for learning areas or subjects
This is the second in a three-part series on how to use iUgo to be more effective with your teacher planning. Having covered Long Term Planning, here we drill down into how to translate those goals into actionable unit plans (programs) for subject or learning areas, and save a whole lot of time as you do so.
What teachers need to know about long-term planning in education
Effectively planning how you use your time is not just a priority – it’s a necessity. In this new blog series, we look at the three main areas of creating lesson and curriculum plans. Here, we launch with long-term planning in education – also referred to as ‘scope and sequence’ planning.
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa refresh: iUgo planning update
The newest whānau member of Tikanga ā-Iwi has arrived! You can at last delve into Te Takanga o te Wā – Māori History, while other Wāhanga Ako are still being refreshed. The prospect of adapting to Te Marautanga o Aotearoa refresh can be a bit daunting, but the iUgo digital teacher planner is here to help.
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories Curriculum (ANZH) Planning Update
The newest member of the Social Sciences family has finally been finalised! It can be a bit overwhelming, but the iUgo digital planner is here to help. We’ve updated our planner to include the Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories Curriculum refresh and can show you what it will look like in the unit plan templates.
Curriculum aligned electronic lesson plans and resources
All teachers know how easy it is to go down the rabbit hole while searching for classroom content. Rachelle Haslegrave of Tarras School was well acquainted with google search and had a growing pile list of subscriptions. That was until Teachables launched in 2020.
All your lesson planning and resources in one place
Previously, Year 7 and 8 teacher Andrew Boaz of Rolleston School would have multiple folders to shift through depending on the curriculum area, and files that needed uploaded, downloaded and then filed. Then Andrew tried the iUgo Planner and it all changed.
Collaborative digital tool for teacher planning
Specialist Classroom Teacher at Whanganui High School, Jo Ander, was on the constant lookout for digital tools that could support her team’s planning. Once she discovered iUgo, she jumped straight into a 30-day trial of iUgo and didn’t look back.
Weekly Planner tip: Start and end times
Not all school days are the same. Find out how you can adjust the start and end times of the school day in our Weekly Planner.
In discussion: When did you decide to become a teacher?
We asked in-house teacher and marketing guru Bridget Higham, to tell us about her time in the classroom. What she loved, what was has changed and ways to keep that work-life balance in check.
How to support your existing digital programs while using iUgo
A common question that comes up with many teachers when they are about to implement a new program is how it will connect with an existing suite of programs.
Team teaching: Tailor iUgo to your planning needs
When Jo’s Whanganui High School colleague started playing around with iUgo, she was hooked. Hear how they used iUgo to help with team teaching.
Transparent planning with iUgo
Elmgrove Primary School teacher Grant Peacock is only too happy to show his planning to colleagues and parents. Read more to see how iUgo helped with transparent planning.
Time-saving teacher planner
iUgo brings little efficiencies that add up to a big lot, says Kerikeri’s Riverview School teacher and team leader, John Bowron. Read more about this time-saving teacher planner.
Quality planning for teachers at all levels
Deputy principal Anne-Maree McDougall took a closer look at iUgo. She liked what she saw – high-quality planning for teachers at different levels.
iUgo testimonial: Free Up Your Weekends
Read an iUgo testimonial from Jacira De Hoog and how there is no longer planning on the weekends.
Collaborative planning with iUgo
Senior teacher Nathan Collie loves how iUgo saves him time and makes collaborative planning easy.
School-wide lesson planning and collaboration
The team at St Patricks, Invercargill, were looking to shift away from paper planning back in 2015. Nathan Collie was the first to discover iUgo and learnt how to effectively plan online. Since then, the whole teaching team have signed up to iUgo
Structured, time-saving planning with iUgo
Wayne Widdowson of Henderson Primary School in Auckland knows that one of the keys to teaching success is learning how to organise your day. Since he found iUgo his planning has become easy, structured and saves him tons of time to be able to do other teaching tasks.
Shift to a collaborative teaching and planning environment
Deputy Principal at Elm Grove School in Dunedin, Grant Peacock, tried many different online planning solutions. Google docs, international software and word – he grew tired of starting from scratch over and over again. Then he found iUgo and his planning got easier.
From handwritten notes to an easy to use digital lesson planner
One click, and I’m there, says Mataura School primary teacher and iUgo user Shona Willis. A Year 2 and 3 teacher, Shona says her planning is now so much quicker and easier with the digital planning tool, iUgo, as it halves the time she spends.
Weekly teacher planner: Creating new events
The iUgo weekly teacher planner has undergone some collaboration enhancements allowing you to collaborate on the same event with other iUgo users. Alternatively, as always, you can
