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National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation Our National Curriculum is lauded as innovative in There is no part of our National Curriculum that lends itself its embrace of localisation, which can disguise the fact that it is more to making young people ‘fully human’ than the arts. also deeply imbued with international economic imperatives. The […]
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the true heart of principalship. As so often happens in times of crisis, the extraneous minutiae of the job have fallen away revealing the core of who we are. Crisis crystallises what is important. Principals have shown gritty leadership. It has been impressive. Principals demonstrating effectiveness in response to being […]
National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the true heart of principalship. As so often happens in times of crisis, the extraneous minutiae of the job have fallen away revealing the core of who we are. Crisis crystallises what is important. Principals have shown gritty leadership. It has been impressive. Principals […]
National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation What is the difference between a manager of people and a leader? I think on this question constantly as I ponder what is required to carry teaching and learning forward in our country. Perhaps it is that managers concern themselves with organising the minutiae of work whereas a leader […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation I am not the first President of NZPF to reach the conclusion and it was an important and valued place. of my term with mixed emotions and I know I won’t be the last. Undoubtedly the […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation There was a collective depressive sigh from teaching professionals when the Digital Technologies Curriculum was announced by then Minister for Education, Nikki Kaye in 2017. It’s not that we don’t agree young people need to understand […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation With the first phase of the Tomorrow’s Schools Review now completed (see pp 5–16 in this issue for the NZPF Moot report), we turn our attention to another important topic. This is Curriculum, Progress and Achievement […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation This year begins as last year ended – with the Tomorrow’s Schools review. The Tomorrow’s Schools Taskforce has completed its work and published its report, signalling the next phase of debate. The report contains thirty-two recommendations, […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation Business approaches to schooling, which attack public education, all have serious flaws, as we learned when we had our own version. Whether based on testing or standards or some other measurement, they are all linked to […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation In July, a damning research report was released showing Wrap Around Service and this service is capped at 335 so very that an unacceptable percentage of teachers and principals are few new students can be considered […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation We hear a lot about relationships these days and how what your collective views are on different issues so that I can important they are at many levels. Recently I met with our NZPF then advocate […]
Ko Tainui te waka Ko Ngāti Raukawa ki Wharepūhunga te iwi Whetu Cormick National President, New Zealand Principals’ Federation If 2017 heralded the start of a new educational era, then 2018 the whole school curriculum. There is no one measure that must is the year of making it happen. The summer holidays offered be used. […]
