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Practical guidance for the day-to-day work of leading a New Zealand school.
Articles in this section share how-to advice on the operational and relational aspects of principalship: navigating employment law, writing letters of expectation, talking to parents about ERO reports, enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi in school life, mentoring future leaders, and supporting equity in the classroom. Contributors are working principals, sector specialists, employment lawyers, and education consultants drawing on lived experience in New Zealand schools. Use this section to find tested approaches to common challenges, build your professional toolkit, and learn from the practice of colleagues across the country — from country schools to large urban primaries.
Editor It was especially uplifting to visit Waimairi School in features of the surrounding environment. These factors, along Christchurch and see how a natural disaster was able to generate with curriculum imperatives, have become the driving force reflection on the past to guide a vision for the future. The 2011 behind the rebuild. Christchurch earthquake […]
In the beginning Te Tai Raki Kāhui Ako is located in Kamo, a small township, approximately five minutes’ drive from the Whangarei CBD. The Kāhui Ako name means ‘eyelash’, but has also been said to mean ‘to bubble up’, referring to hot springs in the area. We could also use the phrase ‘to bubble up’ […]
Editor You quickly run out of superlatives when describing Aotea Great Barrier Island. It is a place of exquisite beauty to anyone who craves peace and tranquility and yearns to escape the harsh city sounds. Located in the outer Hauraki Gulf, it offers few perceptible intrusions bar the gentle lapping of the sea and the […]
Introduction Leadership literature often focuses on the role of the principal as an individual, and the effects of their work on student learning, but there is growing recognition of the relational work of leaders (Hilstad & Moller, 2013). An appreciation for the interconnectedness of people, things physical, spiritual, social and intellectual, not only transform principals, […]
EDITOR If a person armed with a rifle was spotted in your school playground, you would probably call an immediate lockdown. When a squadron of men, carrying rifles and backpacks sprints across principal Geoff Frank’s school playground, the kids call out and wave to their Dads. That’s because Geoff Franks is principal of Linton Army […]
Edendale Primary School – Southland Running a school is not a solo expedition. There are simply too many different roles bearing down on the one position for anyone to be able to do everything, flawlessly, on their own. We lead our staff, manage a breadth of physical and financial resources and through our membership on […]
Chief Researcher at NZCER 2020 should mark the start of a new era for school ■■ Embodying the organisation’s values, and showing moral leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand. We have a long overdue purpose, optimism, agency and resilience national Leadership Centre being established within the ■■ Contributing to the development and wellbeing of education Teaching […]
Team teaching can be both an incredible privilege and an immense challenge all at the same time! One teacher recently described team teaching as going on a blind date and getting married! And it can be like that. However, with some simple structures and strategies team teaching can be the best teaching years of your […]
Recruiting the right teachers for your school . . . Helen Kinsey-Wightman So I am back in the Acting Principal chair, this term is 8 weeks long and my to do list feels like it would take 10 weeks even if I only left school to sleep . . . Top of the list is […]
