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Principals engage |
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Principals from throughout the country took part in a three day conference in Wellington late last month that was aimed at engaging them in a number of important aspects of their career.
The ‘Engaging in Wellington’ conference began with a speech by secretary for education Karen Sewell. Participants then engaged with the New Zealand Curriculum through keynote speaker, Australian education and learning consultant, Dr Julia Atkin.
Engaging with the curriculum (Julia Atkins presentation)
A workshop was held to discuss the various aspects of engaging different types of students and a speech was given by PPTA president Kate Gainsford.
NZCER chief researcher Cathy Wylie spoke to principals about a number of issues including moraleand stress levels, staffing, and funding concerns. Delegates rounded up the first day with a dinner with minister of education Anne Tolley at Parliament.
The principals engaged with schools through a series of site visits and heard about working with communities through a presentation by district court judge John Walker.
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Principal vacancies and appointments 2008-9 |
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 11:40 |
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From the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, NZCER website
Author: Cathy Wylie. Published April 2010
This report analyses principal vacancies advertised in the Education Gazette in 2008 and 2009. It also draws on information from a 2008 survey of boards of trustees about appointments, and on data from recent NZCER national surveys of primary and secondary schools. This includes data from the 2009 National Survey of Secondary Schools.
Download from NZCER website [ 237KB ]
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The school board as employer |
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer:
Survey report to the New Zealand Principals’ Federation and the New Zealand Secondary Principals’ Council
Carol Anderson, October 2009
The survey sought principals’ observations of the way in which the board-principal employment relationship works within the governance framework which operates in New Zealand schools.
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Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions guidelines |
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:06 |
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Updated Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions guidelines are on the Ministry of Education website.
The Guidelines have been published in two parts, Legal options and duties and Good practice and include a sample incident report, information pamphlets and model letters.
You are able to download and print the guidelines and/or order them - see the Ministry of Education website.
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Managing support for students with high special educational needs |
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Monday, 21 December 2009 13:54 |
Performance audit by the Auditor General - Ministry of Education: Managing support for students with high special educational needs
This report will be of interest to all of you regarding issues around student behaviour and managing support for students in your school.
The Minister has reconvened the working group that devised the Behaviour Action Plan and with that in mind feedback on this report will be important.
The report can be accessed from the OAG website
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Action plan does little for class safety |
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Behaviour action plan will not make secondary schools any safer
December 8, 2009
Principals are deeply concerned that the newly released behaviour action plan will not make secondary schools any safer, New Zealand Secondary Principals’ Council (NZSPC) representative Lisl Prendergast says.
“Making sure the classroom is a safe environment for students and teachers is paramount and the buck stops with a school’s principal and board to ensure this is the case,” she said.
The plan’s downfall was that is that it was trying to achieve results with no extra funding, when support service provision for schools around the country was already extremely patchy, she said
“A small percentage of students require clinical services to be provided in a timely manner, no matter where they live or what income bracket they fall into, but currently this is not the case.
“Rural and remote schools are at a disadvantage, and the current need for services doesn’t match their actual availability,” she said.
“We are not going to get much by trying to re-shuffle a service that’s already underperforming.”
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