This is the workshop provided for the ELN. It provided the opportunity for their school teams to begin compiling their Case Study relating to their inquiry goal focus for improvement they identified at the beginning of this school year.

Reviewing the impact of your school’s inquiry using a range of data sources.

• How do you know your inquiry has had the intended impact?
• What has surfaced within the data that leads to further inquiry and needing development or action?
• Though the eyes of ākonga, what are they saying about the progress they have made and/or how they’ve contributed to the intended changes?

We focused on explicit leadership in relation to our term focus of ‘The ‘How’ of Sustaining Collective Leadership Inquiry to Make a Difference’. We introduced the critical importance of using listening skills to support enhancing school improvement work.

In this session we focused on unpacking and using data to support and inform school teams as they formulate and habitually review their 2025 Action Plan. The purpose is to inform teams’ on-going implementation, sustaining, and data informed adaption of leading and teaching actions.

In this session we focused on both protecting and enhancing our cultures of learning. Protecting implies there may exist threats that could undermine your own culture of learning, whereas enhancing implies proactively planning intentional changes to both systems and practices that deepen learning across the students and staff. Educational leadership, especially in times of rapid reform and exponential AI development require the dual holding of both protection and enhancement.

In this session we prioritise time for senior and middle leaders to reflect upon and analyse your team’s collaborative leadership learning this year and the experienced and evidence – based impact on the change initiative you identified at the beginning of 2024. What will you sustain? What will you de-implement in relation to this focus in 2025? What has really counted in enhancing your culture of learning in 2024?

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.