Best for
Short planning meetings, campaign checkpoints, and keeping group roles and next steps visible.
Unit 5 project management • Years 10-13 • Team action workflow
Solidarity Action Planner
This planner is the working sheet for teams. Use it after you know what you stand for and before the project runs away from you. It keeps the kaupapa, roles, timelines, and accountability checks visible on one page.
Free planner, premium adaptation path
This version is ready to print. Te Wānanga becomes useful when you need a junior version, a poster-style version, or a teacher conference sheet with auto-generated prompts.
- Generate a one-page stand-up meeting version.
- Create a kanban-style planner with role cards.
- Save the team workflow into My Kete and iterate it in Creation Studio.
Kaiako planning snapshot
- Use length: 10-15 minutes for regular project check-ins.
- Grouping: Small action teams with a named facilitator.
- Prep: Students should already know the issue and have a draft action idea.
- Teaching move: Ask what the next concrete action is, not what the group cares about in general.
- Support / stretch: Support with role prompts; stretch with stakeholder communication and risk planning.
Resources already provided
- Role and responsibility prompts
- Weekly milestone and communication checks
- Risk, protocol, and accountability reminders
- Quick reflection box for the next checkpoint
- Teacher-only curriculum companion
This planner is for coordination. The fuller ethical reasoning should live in the action-plan template.
Ngā Whāinga Akoranga / Learning Intentions
- We are learning how to coordinate group action clearly and responsibly.
- We are learning how to keep kaupapa, roles, and protocols visible during a project.
- We are learning how to review progress and adjust without losing accountability.
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria
- I can name the team role I am responsible for.
- I can identify the next concrete action and timeline.
- I can explain how our team will stay accountable to the kaupapa and the people involved.
Curriculum integration / Te Marautanga alignment
The companion page makes the curriculum fit explicit across participation, group problem-solving, and informed social action.
Mātauranga Māori planning note
The team plan should reflect mātauranga Māori values as well as project efficiency. Ask how manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, tikanga, and accountability to tino rangatiratanga show up in the actual workflow.
Team and kaupapa
Team members and roles:
What is our solidarity kaupapa?
Who are we accountable to?
Indigenous leaders, organisations, or sources we are following:
Protocol or communication check we must not skip:
1
This week
2
Before we act
3
After we act
Team checkpoint table
| Task | Who owns it? | By when? | What might block it? |
|---|---|---|---|
How are we keeping the kaupapa visible?
What do we need from kaiako or partners next?
Hononga Marautanga · Curriculum Alignment
Social Sciences — Tikanga ā-Iwi
Level 3–4: Investigate how historical, political, and economic processes shape societies; understand how people participate in communities to create change; analyse different perspectives on social, cultural, and environmental issues.
English — Research and Literacy
Level 3–4: Gather, evaluate, and synthesise information from multiple sources; construct well-reasoned arguments using evidence; communicate social science understanding clearly in written, oral, and visual forms.
Aronga Mātauranga Māori
Social Sciences taught well in Aotearoa should be uncomfortable — because the history of this land is one in which Māori and other communities have faced injustice, and in which those injustices are not yet fully addressed. Mātauranga Māori offers frameworks for thinking about social change that go beyond Western political theory: the concept of tino rangatiratanga (self-determination), of kotahitanga (unity in purpose), of utu (reciprocity across time) — these are not abstract ideas but working tools for analysing how power has been distributed and how it might be redistributed more justly. Social Sciences that centres these frameworks gives students the analytical vocabulary to name what they see in the world and imagine what could be different.
Tuhia ōu whakaaro · Write Your Thoughts
Reflect on what you have learned today. What was the most important idea? What question do you still have?
Ngā Rauemi Tautoko · Support Materials
This handout is designed to be used alongside the broader unit resources available at Te Kete Ako handouts library. Related resources from the same unit are linked in the unit planner. All resources are provided — no additional preparation is required to use this handout in your classroom.
📋 Teacher Planning Snapshot
Ngā Whāinga Ako — Learning Intentions
Students will investigate global indigenous solidarity movements through a historical lens, using whakapapa of resistance to trace how communities have organised across borders to assert tino rangatiratanga and mana motuhake. This unit connects Aotearoa's struggle for sovereignty to broader international movements for indigenous rights and decolonisation.
Ngā Paearu Angitū — Success Criteria
- ✅ I can analyse and compare perspectives from multiple indigenous resistance movements globally.
- ✅ I can explain how solidarity across difference has strengthened indigenous rights campaigns.
- ✅ I can evaluate the significance of international indigenous solidarity for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Differentiation & Inclusion
Scaffold support: Provide graphic organisers for comparing movements. Entry-level tasks focus on identifying key events; extension tasks require evaluating the effectiveness of solidarity strategies and writing a persuasive historical argument.
ELL / ESOL: Pre-teach key historical terms (sovereignty, solidarity, colonisation, decolonisation). Provide bilingual glossaries where available; allow discussion in home language first.
Inclusion: Use structured note-taking templates and chunked readings. Neurodiverse learners benefit from visual timelines and choice in how they demonstrate understanding — oral, visual, or written formats all valid. Ensure content is presented sensitively given the potential for personal connection to histories of dispossession.
Mātauranga Māori lens: Centre whakapapa as a methodology — tracing the genealogy of resistance ideas across cultures and time. Frame the hīkoi as both a political act and a cultural expression of rangatiratanga. Connect to the whakataukī: "He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
Prior knowledge: Best used after foundational study of colonisation and the Treaty of Waitangi. Familiarity with basic historical inquiry skills is recommended.
Curriculum alignment
- Social Studies — Understanding: Students understand that historical and contemporary events reflect the perspectives and interests of those involved and their significance for different groups.
- Social Studies — Understanding: Students understand how the Treaty of Waitangi has shaped New Zealand society and the ongoing significance of indigenous rights.