16 October – What has really counted in your culture of learning?

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?

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12 September – Evaluating Practices in Relation to Outcomes – Mind the Gap!

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.

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11 September – Evaluating Practices in Relation to Outcomes – Mind the Gap!

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.

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1 August – 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.

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31 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.

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27 June – Session Three: Taking a systemic approach: What works?

  In this final session together for Term Two the focus was on identifying what has worked well while also keeping in mind the key challenges in working systemically. Each school had the opportunity to discuss a key intentional action they have undertaken to work systemically by sharing ‘what has worked well’ and ‘what challenges…

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19 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…

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29 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…

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