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- How school leaders sustain excellence in planning year after year
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- 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
Category: Teacher Planning
Top tips, advice, and quick hacks to make your planning preparation more efficient.

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 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.

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 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.
The unbelievably easy way to simplify teachers’ planning
Planning can be overwhelming and time consuming. It is often spread across multiple documents, in multiple places. iUgo is an easy way to simplify teachers’

Collaborative planning with iUgo
Senior teacher Nathan Collie loves how iUgo saves him time and makes collaborative planning easy.

iUgo testimonial: Free Up Your Weekends
Read an iUgo testimonial from Jacira De Hoog and how there is no longer planning on the weekends.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

How to support student engagement in children
I teach children aged between 5-and-a-half and seven-and-a-half years old. During the years I have developed different activities I use in the classroom to keep the children engaged and motivated during the day while learning and having fun.