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Five Keys for Building and Maintaining Sustainable School Momentum David J.C. McKenzie Introduction Let’s face it. We all want our school’s to grow and be better places from when we first started to when we leave. When we leave we want people to celebrate the successes of our time there and not celebrate that we […]
Two years ago, Matt O’Dowda’s career took a radical lurch residents brimming with spare cash to titivate their gardens or in direction. From the comfort of his medium sized decile eight fill their homes with the latest electronic gadgetry. For many it’s a country school he packed up his not inconsiderable leadership struggle to buy […]
The best example of right brain learning process is HAUORA Eva Scherer eva.scherer@xtra.co.nz www.childconnection.org.nz “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has of course powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve.” — Albert Einstein What did the genius Einstein have in mind when writing this? […]
To say a person is ‘passionate’ is a cliché these days. Overuse of the word has stripped it of its punch and status. A pity, because when you describe Nicola Girling, principal of Hillsborough School in Auckland, it’s the word that leaps to the top of the list. It springs out in neon lights blinding […]
Coaching through partnership Dr. Jan Robertson Academic Director How do you design professional learning that will develop future generations of leaders who are even more than we ourselves have been able to be? This was our challenge in the National Aspiring Principals’ Programme (NAPP), a professional learning and development contract funded by the Ministry of […]
Editor Music blasts from the expansive Manurewa Intermediate School (MIS) auditorium as several hundred gyrating students and staff boogie exuberantly on the stage, on the floor, and in the aisles. Outside a few more make their chalk mark on one of several designated tagging boards erected about the school grounds. Tucked in the confines of […]
Helping Principals achieve a successful outcome Fiona McMillan LLB, BA, B Ed, PG Dip Ch Ad 1. The Legal Support scheme (the Scheme) operated by Principals’ Advice and Support Ltd (PASL) is designed to give employment related legal advice to principals. As the Scheme’s primary legal advisers we avoid advising Boards of Trustees, teachers, or […]
According to a paper on languages in Aotearoa New Zealand, published by the Royal Society of New Zealand, ‘New Zealand is now home to some of the greatest cultural diversity in the world’. The paper goes on to say that over the past few decades we have witnessed unprecedented increases in ethnic, cultural, social and […]
The Eight Continuums of School Culture David J. C. McKenzie Principal, Edendale Primary School (Southland) Emotionality Ta lk ism Bl am Values ve iti g n in g Co sten iL So lu tio ns e Ego Cohesive School […]
Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei Aspire to great heights, should you bow down let it be to a lofty mountain It’s hard to imagine that surrounded by the brassy buzz of motorway madness in Auckland’s inner city suburb of Grey Lynn, a hillside of wooded wonderland cossets a […]
Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand Max Riley is a maths teacher at Nayland College in Nelson If schools address the issue of copyright in advance – rather whose website, Nayland Mathematics, provides a range of high than after the fact – they can ensure that everyone knows quality resources that are reused by teachers all […]
Āta Whakaarohia – A story of mentoring in a special education setting Jill de Kock, Neil Jourdan, Sarah Copeland, Devs Charles, Sheryl Willis & Phyllis Jones Āta Whakaarohia is a Māori word that is used to explain thinking about your thinking. Āta means to enquire deeply. Whakaaro means to think, brainstorm or consider. Hia means […]
