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Secondary Principals' Council
Developing further policy components: About Time toolkit
Section 5 of toolkit. Schools have developed different frameworks to deliver student learning programmes. Most, because of limited school resourcing and facilities, and community needs and expectations, are variations…
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August 14, 2024
14/50/2024
Developing a performance agreement and professional learning plan (PLP) checklist
(June 2011) Developing a performance agreement and professional learning plan (PLP) checklist and questions.
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Developing a Community of Learning / Schools (CoL): Consultation with teachers
Developing a Community of Schools (CoS): Consultation with teachers.
If you've been told your school is going to into a community of schools (COS) [as part of the IES initiative] then…
If you've been told your school is going to into a community of schools (COS) [as part of the IES initiative] then…
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August 17, 2020
17/49/2020
Demolition-or-restoration-The-election-and-our-fight-for-the-Teachers-Council-v2.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/26/2022
Delegate Leadership Development Workshop and I&O registration form
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August 17, 2020
17/53/2020
Day relief teachers - Victims of casualisation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines the issues faced by day relief teachers, including their terms of employment, their difficulties in gaining a school’s agreement to act as lead…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Cost of Action calculator
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August 17, 2020
17/53/2020
Consultation: PPTA guidelines for whole staff consultation
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May 17, 2023
17/9/2023
Consultation on the draft Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill. Submission May 2017
While there are good parts in the Bill, including negotiating with the State Services Commission rather than the Ministry of Education, we have also raised concerns with:
• Areas of the Bill…
• Areas of the Bill…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Constitutional Amendments (2018)
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August 17, 2020
17/52/2020
Constitution-January-2025.pdf
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February 11, 2025
11/36/2025
Constitution-January-2020
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August 17, 2020
17/53/2020
Consolidated-Financial-Statements-yr-end-31-Mar-2022.pdf
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September 21, 2022
21/15/2022
Connected secondary schools (2009)
2009 Annual conference paper. In 2007, PPTA annual conference discussed a paper that presented a vision for what secondary education should look like in the future. The paper set down…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
CONFERENCE-PAPERS-BOOKLET-2014-as-at-17Sep-version-for-printing.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/26/2022
Conference-Paper-A-policy-on-Teaching-with-Digital-Technologies.pdf
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December 9, 2024
9/28/2024
Comparison between ASTCA and STCA conditions (2017)
(May 2017) Prepared for union meetings with members covered by the Area School Teachers' Collective Agreement. NB: This is a comparison between ASTCA and STCA only. A large number of…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Community-Pamphlet.pdf
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April 9, 2025
9/52/2025
Community-Education-Collective-Agreement-2022-2025.pdf
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June 14, 2023
14/59/2023
Community-Education-Collective-Agreement-2022-2025-1.pdf
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September 5, 2023
5/19/2023
Communities of learning: the slippage between planning and implementation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper considers the expectations underlying the implementation of Communities of Learning and the experience of implementation in practice. It finds a gap between the two…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Class size report (2007)
2007 Annual conference paper. Since 2006 PPTA has analysed data collected from secondary schools, commissioned research into parental expectations on class size and analysed the literature available on class sizes…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Class size presentation (2007)
2007 Annual conference. Presentation with Class size report. Why class size matters.
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Class size poster: How dense do you want them (2008)
Poster from Class Size campaign 2008
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August 17, 2020
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Class size - Letter from Prof John-ONeill to Minister of Education (2012)
The effects of class size on teaching and learning (Questions for oral answer, question 12, 8 February 2012)
... I have done you the courtesy of looking once more at Professor…
... I have done you the courtesy of looking once more at Professor…
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August 17, 2020
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