SIAPO

SIAPO is a professional learning and development service for practitioners, who, believe that teaching and learning includes cultural intelligence, humility and resiliency. For centuries SIAPO has been passed from generation to generation as an art form. As a specialised form of recording and passing on knowledge and our stories, SIAPO as a model of practice, in our approach, is about celebrating success and achievement with Pacific children as learners. A practice model for SIAPO, is sustainable education in Pacific early learning, for the well-being - individual and community - and is premised on ten basic principles. These are cultural continuity, resilience, spirituality, agency, commitment and participation, life-long learning/education, indigenous pedagogies, decolonization, self-determination and knowledge of socio-cultural/historical histories... As a professional learning provider, SIAPO, is designed as a Learning HUB, and professional resource for three purposes: • It is a..