Nugget of Learning: Maggie shares an insight into the Leadership Dimension of Mobilise-ability. 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. When we feel agentic we have a strong…

  Nugget of Learning: Maggie shares a key insight from a 2021 session with Cathy Wylie. Each third session in the term as a school team you focus on implementing critical reflection of where you are at now in relation to when you started term one and your priority next steps. In this research based practical…

  Nugget of Learning: John Marwick, Principal at Forrest Hill School shared a key insight into collaborative leadership, the implementation of which he is finding positively impactful in his school context. Each second session in the term as a school team you engage in collaborative critical reflection on implementation of the priorities discussed in session one.…

  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 The main focus of this session is to help…

  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…