Today’s workshop focused on the leadership capability sphere ‘Evaluating practices in relation to outcomes’ found in the Educational Leadership Capability Framework (Education Council,2018). As we considered this sphere we linked back to the two previous workshops this term facilitated by Charles Darr, our visiting Chief Researcher from NZCER.

Charles Darr from NZCER continues the data discussion with Leading assessment: Standardised tests

Effective instructional leaders understand the role of sound assessment in efforts to improve teaching and learning. They use assessment as a strategic tool in developing supportive and effective educational environments that enhance student learning and wellbeing. In this session, Charles Darr from NZCER will examine what leadership in assessment might involve and what it can stimulate, encourage and promote that leads to better outcomes for all ākonga.

  Making Impact: Scaffolding connections and flow through and between the year’s workshops. Each first session of the term you focus on input from your team(s) so that your school develops thinking/ planning/ how you intend to implement your plans and discussions from this first session System-wide improvement demands we focused on the specifics of…

How to engage across our identified systems and people   Nugget of Learning: What is our research telling us about ELN and NLN’s professional development? Reflecting on our ten year journey. System-wide improvement demands we focus on the specifics of our daily work while also keeping the big picture in clear focus. In this session…

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: We hear from Karen Noble-Campbell and Louise Campbell from Our Lady Star of the Sea School in relation to their leadership practices to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Our work together in Term Two builds on your focus…

  Nugget of Learning: Implementing and Sustaining: Maggie presented processes to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. A key practice that enables us address deeper and unproductive habitual practices is engaging in dialogue. During this workshop we offered some tools and guidelines that help shift conversations…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie presents a leadership practice to support the implementing and sustaining of strategies to progress identified school strategic goals for 2024. Habitual practices stay in play for numerous reasons. Some contribute to learning, development and trust. Some reflect who we are and in the words of Parker Palmer, “we teach who…

  With a focus on starting well with the new school year, planning has taken priority both collectively and individually. Within days once students are back, the familiar patterns kick in, and our focus (rightly) turns to the present situation, the following day, and the rest of the week. Sometimes, our interventions regarding patterns may…