21 August – Leading assessment: Standardised tests
Charles Darr from NZCER continues the data discussion with Leading assessment: Standardised tests
Read More31 July – Assessment as a strategic tool in developing supportive and effective educational environments
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.
Read More19 June – Session Three: Taking a systemic approach: What works?
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…
Read More29 May – What it means to work systemically and why it matters – Part 2
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…
Read More8 May – What it means to work systemically and why it matters
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…
Read More13 March – Deeper Change Part 3: Nurturing ongoing collaborative leadership inquiry
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…
Read More28 Feb – DEEPER CHANGE (Part two) Navigating beneath the surface of habitual practices
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…
Read More14 Feb – DEEPER CHANGE (Part one) Revisiting implementation gaps
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…
Read More17 Feb – Connecting to current context
This session supported teachers to embark on their collaborative inquiries for the year. We showcased a range of different approaches to the scanning phase of inquiry, offering practical tools to ensure the areas we choose to focus on are the key areas of need for our learners. We paid particular attention to gathering data and…
Read More10 Feb – Stepping up, stepping in and stepping back
In this first session we explored and questioned how structured and intentional our planning and intervention needs to be with different groups within our schools. We identified tensions and opportunities related to engaging teachers through tight and loose coupling in our schools for 2016. Click Here to download the pdf Workshop Videos Please enable JavaScriptplay-sharp-fill…
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