David Taylor

Guest writer

David Taylor is Head of English at Northcote College. He has been a curriculum leader for seventeen years and was a member of the writing group for the 2023 English curriculum. He has been a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, and a Woolf Fisher Fellowship for excellence in education.

An argument against the new English curriculum released in April 2025.

Why I’ve told my principal I will not teach the new proposed English curriculum

'If the ministry is unable to provide us with something fit for purpose, it is not my job to compound the harm it will cause to my students, but to protect them from it.'

By David Taylor | 28th April, 2025