This workshop followed on from the enCOMPASS activities you started to work on during the last workshop of term three. Subsequently, we asked that you please bring your A3 worksheets from that workshop with you for this one. The time in school groups was an opportunity to practise the learning points from Mark’s workshop…

  In this first workshop of two we deliberately encompassed some of your journeys through 2022 and especially some of your direction shifts related to student learning and hauora. Opportunity was provided for you to hear and learn from others again across the NLN with another Nugget of Learning. This is weaving together in action…

  Intentionally keeping aware of your sub-cultures across your school and Kāhui Ako is one way in which you can discern the depth and criticalness of positive professional conversations. This workshop continued the threads developed in Mark’s recent workshop with connections back to our earlier focus on inclusive practices. We drew on the concept of…

  An essential element of wayfinding leadership is the development of a team culture that values and promotes positive professional conversations: robust debate about professional issues that matter. This session unpacked two frameworks that are useful for creating the conditions for positive professional conversations as well as acting as processes staff can use to engage…

Building on from your previous workshop on using data with Mo, we turned our attention to applying the key messages from his workshop to priority learners and barriers to learning. At the start of the workshop we revisited the questions Mo raised at the end of his presentation: What were the key messages that stood…

There is a growing emphasis on school leaders’ use of data to make informed-decisions about improvement. Both the National Educational Leadership Priorities and the Leadership Strategy identify the use of data as a key driver/capability for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Gathering and sharing data during the pandemic was also important for schools…

Have you ever wanted to introduce something new in your school but been faced with what feels like ‘resistance to change’. Do you wonder why people sometimes say they are keen to try something new but nothing actually changes? In this session we explored how perceptions of risk can get in the way of change…

Middle leaders play a crucial role in shaping collaborative decision-making processes. They look out from their ‘team’ as an advocate and look in to their ‘team’ as a shaper of collaborative processes. With an acknowledgement of perceived capacity levels (our last session of term one), we looked into three interrelated considerations regarding collaborative decision-making: classifying…

At the end of the second workshop, we asked how you get a ‘measure’ of well-being and capacity across the staff and students. Being well means we are more likely to learn well, individually, collectively and collaboratively. As we approach the latter part of the first term – How much ‘giving capacity’ is across the…

Over the last two years we have been learning to live with disruption. For many of us the degree of disruption is perhaps unprecedented. At times it may seem like we are continually in a storm of unpredictable and fluid events. We may not be able to control the environment around us, but one thing…