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  Managing your school

  • Guides for managing your school
    • Primary principals' annual calendar
    • Secondary principals' annual calendar
    • Understanding school charters
    • Understanding school employment
    • Understanding school property
    • Understanding school finances
    • Understanding attendance
    • Starting the year off
    • Dealing with complaints
    • Facing the time challenge
    • Effective communications
  • Forms and templates
    • EOTC guidelines
  • Administration links
  • School support staff
  • No more nagging doubts
  • Managing organisational demands
    • Managing key resources
    • Leading improved staff performance
  • Registered teacher criteria

  Leading change

  • Manaakitanga: leading with moral purpose
    • Creating Culturally Safe Schools for Māori Students
    • Accomplishing Important Work Together
    • Accountability
    • “Better than normal” learning journey
    • Moral Purpose and Shared Leadership
    • One Good Turn
    • The Unusual Suspects
  • National standards
    • Self-review tools learning module
    • Using self-review to inform school planning
  • Māori education success
    • Rangiātea: case studies and exemplars
    • Promoting success for Māori students (ERO)
    • The challenge of equity
    • Video: Professor Russell Bishop
    • Youth Apprenticeships Scheme
    • Te Kotahitanga journey
    • Talented and Inspired Leadership
    • Trusteeship and whānau
    • Education partnerships
    • Supporting rangatahi
    • Transitioning to school
  • Educational leadership in action
    • Developing team leadership
    • Shaping a Marautanga-ā-Kura
    • Changing practice
    • A model for change
    • The Learning Partners' programme
    • Relationships are paramount
    • A curriculum design journey
    • Teaching and learning
    • Principalship in 40 hours a week?
    • Accountability
    • “Better than normal” learning journey
    • Walking the talk
    • Learning conversations
    • Practice-based attestation
  • Future schools and innovation
    • Enabling e-Learning
    • Meet the Changemakers
    • Schooling for Tomorrow: OECD Scenarios
    • Shifting Thinking
    • The New Enterprise Logic of Schools: The Leadership Challenge
    • The School of the Future: Key Issues for School Leaders
    • Eight Forces for Leaders of Change
    • OECD Report: Improving School Leadership
  • Leading and managing change
    • Leading Curriculum Innovation
    • Personal cost of change
    • ELP survey report
    • Taihape Area School: engaging their community
    • Te Kotahitanga journey
    • Sustaining School Improvement: Ten Primary Schools' Journeys
    • What Headteachers Need to Know About Teaching and Learning
    • Three Stories of Education Reform
    • The Roar of Complexity
  • Organisational change
    • Tamaki College
    • Educational Reform and School Leadership in 3-D Perspective
    • Elephants and Fleas: Is Your Organisation Prepared for Change?
    • How friends can be critical
    • Southern Cross Senior Campus
    • Keeping the Fleas Motivated
    • Transforming High Schools
    • Systems Thinkers in Action: Moving Beyond the Standards Plateau
  • Strategic leadership
    • Rethinking school-wide self-review
    • Breaking the Leadership Rules: The Five New Rules of Leadership
    • Breaking the Leadership Rules: What is the Educational ‘Bottom Line’?
    • Building leadership capacity
    • Do Schools Work?
    • Enchanted Headteachers: Sustainability in Primary School Headship
    • Mission Impossible? A Strategic View of Efforts to Lead the Transformation of Schools
    • Reframing Reform
    • Kaipaki School
    • Systems Thinkers in Action: Moving Beyond the Standards Plateau

• Culture

  • Leading cultural change
    • Kenakena School
    • The Ethical Development of School Principals
    • Culture Shift Doesn’t Occur Overnight – Or Without Conflict
    • Te Kura Kaupapa o Māori Manawatu
    • Oranga School
    • Gisborne Girls High School
    • Lincoln High School
    • Frimley School
    • St Patrick's School, Kaiapoi
    • Nawton School
    • Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe
    • Ashhurst School
    • Thinking About Principalship
  • Understanding school cultures
    • Best Practice: A Technocrat’s Dream!
    • Kenakena School
    • The Ethical Development of School Principals
    • Culture Shift Doesn’t Occur Overnight – Or Without Conflict
    • Te Kura Kaupapa o Māori Manawatu
    • Exploring School Culture
    • Improving relationships within the schoolhouse
    • Oranga School
    • Gisborne Girls High School
    • Leading Learning and Teaching Primary Schools
    • Lincoln High School
    • Frimley School
    • St Patrick's School, Kaiapoi
    • Selwyn Ridge School
    • Nawton School
    • Creating Culturally Safe Schools for Māori Students
    • Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe
    • School Culture
    • Ashhurst School
    • Thinking About Principalship
    • What is our School Culture Like? – A Checklist for Analysing a School’s Culture
    • What Ought I to Do, All Things Considered? An Approach to the Exploration of Ethical Problems by Teachers
  • Building teams
    • Kenakena School
    • Enchanted Headteachers: Sustainability in Primary School Headship
    • Towards the Eminent School: The Importance of Professional Leadership
  • Developing leaders
    • Overcoming obstacles
    • Listening to First-time Principals
    • Small School Challenges
    • What Do Teachers Bring to Leadership?
    • Beyond the Lost Sandshoe
    • Building leadership capacity
    • Enhancing Internal Capacity: Leadership for Learning
    • Formation of Capable, Influential, and Authentic Leaders for Times of Uncertainty
    • Too Busy to Learn? An Introduction to Collaborative Leadership Learning
    • Leadership: Paradoxes of Leadership in an Age of Accountability
    • One Good Turn
    • Principal Professional Development: A Fine Balance
    • Principal Professional Learning as Part of the School Development Process
    • Professional Development for Principals: Seven Core Beliefs
    • The Ethical Development of School Principals
    • What Leaders Read 1: Key Texts from the Business World
    • What Leaders Read 2: Key Texts from Education and Beyond
    • What Ought I to Do, All Things Considered? An Approach to the Exploration of Ethical Problems by Teachers
  • Distributed/shared leadership
    • Breaking the Leadership Rules: Leadership: What’s Wrong?
    • Murrays Bay Intermediate
    • Different Approaches to Sharing School Leadership
    • Cashmere Primary School
    • Seven Strong Claims About Successful School Leadership
  • Leading staff
    • Breaking the Leadership Rules: The Five New Rules of Leadership
    • Breaking the Leadership Rules: What is the Educational ‘Bottom Line’?
    • Building Trusting Relationships for School Improvement: Implications for Principals and Teachers
    • Effective School Leadership
    • Leading Learning and Teaching Primary Schools
    • Leading Learning: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments
    • What Do Teachers Bring to Leadership?
  • Attitudes, values, and ethics
    • Effective Bicultural Leadership
    • Effective School Leadership
    • Formation of Capable, Influential, and Authentic Leaders for Times of Uncertainty
    • Meet the Changemakers
    • Moral Purpose and Shared Leadership
    • Shared Culture: Consensus of Individual Values
    • The Ethical Development of School Principals
    • The Roar of Complexity
    • The Wounded Leader
    • Using stories to shift attitudes: the case of bullying
    • What Ought I to Do, All Things Considered? An Approach to the Exploration of Ethical Problems by Teachers

  Pedagogy and assessment

  • Pedagogical leadership
    • National standards
    • Leading Curriculum Innovation
    • The Principal’s Priority 1
    • Tamaki College
    • Using evidence in the classroom
    • Leading the instructional core
    • Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
    • Best Practice: A Technocrat’s Dream!
    • Enhancing Internal Capacity: Leadership for Learning
    • Seven Strong Claims About Successful School Leadership
    • School Leadership and Student Outcomes
    • The Current Work of New Zealand Teaching Principals
  • Leading professional learning
    • Conversations that matter
    • Teacher professional learning
    • Using evidence in the classroom
    • The benefits of collaborative professional learning
    • Building leadership capacity
    • Personal learning
    • How friends can be critical
    • Improving relationships within the schoolhouse
    • Narrowing the gap
    • Communities writ large
    • Teacher leaders
    • Teachers as learners
    • The cultural myths and realities of teaching and learning
    • The flywheel effect
    • The research-engaged school
    • Using stories to shift attitudes: the case of bullying
  • Evidence-based leadership
    • Data gathering and analysis
    • Measuring learning
    • Evidence-based Leadership
    • Learning conversations
  • Leading learning communities
    • Learning-Centered Principal
    • Balanced Leadership: What 30 Years of Research Tells Us About the Effect of Leadership on Student Achievement
    • Best Practice: A Technocrat’s Dream!
    • Building Trusting Relationships for School Improvement: Implications for Principals and Teachers
    • Culture Shift Doesn’t Occur Overnight – Or Without Conflict
    • Personal learning
    • Got a Minute? Can Instructional Leadership Exist Despite the Reactive Nature of the Principalship?
    • How friends can be critical
    • Leading Learning and Teaching Primary Schools
    • Leading Learning: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments
    • Leading Under Pressure: Leadership for Social Inclusion
    • Communities writ large
    • Practices for Learning
    • Developing New Leaders
    • Teacher leaders
    • Teachers as learners
    • The Current Work of New Zealand Teaching Principals
    • The flywheel effect
    • What Do Teachers Bring to Leadership?
    • What Headteachers Need to Know About Teaching and Learning
  • Building effective learning environments
    • A Balanced School Accountability Model: An Alternative to High-Stakes Testing
    • Aiming for Student Achievement: How Teachers Can Understand and Better Meet the Needs of Māori and Pacific Island Students
    • All Our Students Thinking
    • Assessment Through the Student’s Eyes
    • Engage Me or Enrage Me: What Today’s Learners Demand
    • Enhancing Internal Capacity: Leadership for Learning
    • School Leadership and Student Outcomes
    • Interview with Michael Fullan: Change Agent
    • Leading Learning: Creating High-Achieving Learning Environments
    • Listen to the Natives
    • Māori Education 2026
    • Creating Culturally Safe Schools for Māori Students
    • Shared Culture: Consensus of Individual Values
    • Transforming High Schools
    • Teachers Make a Difference: What is the Research Evidence?
    • Community and Family Influences on Children's Achievement
    • The cultural myths and realities of teaching and learning
    • The research-engaged school
    • The Ripple Effect
    • Using Best Evidence Syntheses to Assist in Making a Bigger Difference for Diverse Learners
    • What We Know about Successful School Leadership
    • Bucking the Trend
  • Leadership in different contexts and settings
    • Aiming for Student Achievement: How Teachers Can Understand and Better Meet the Needs of Māori and Pacific Island Students
    • Gender and School Leadership: The Experience of Women and Men Secondary Principals
    • Mission Impossible? A Strategic View of Efforts to Lead the Transformation of Schools
  • Leading Te Marautanga
    • Shaping a Marautanga-ā-Kura

  Problem solving

  • Pono: having self-belief
    • Leading through difficulty
    • Hauora and wellbeing
  • Education and the law
    • Basic principles of law
    • Governance and management
    • Students
    • Community, whānau, family
    • Rights and responsibilities
    • Employment
    • Other issues
  • Leadership dilemmas
    • Using the leadership dilemmas
    • An issue of risk management
    • Dealing with two internal applicants
    • A challenge for the board
    • Who owns the problem?
    • When beliefs are challenged
    • A matter of performance
    • First-time principal in the swamp
    • Personal cost of change
    • Too much advice?
    • Dilemma management
    • Open-to-learning conversations
  • Digital stories
    • Te Kura Māori o Ngā Tapuwae
    • Forbury School
    • Murrays Bay Intermediate
    • Manunui School
    • Morrinsville Intermediate
    • Kaitaia Intermediate
    • Kerikeri High School
    • Tamaki College
    • Cashmere Primary School
    • Parkvale School
    • Nayland College
    • Southern Cross Senior Campus
    • Kaipaki School
  • Online tools and resources
    • Generic reflection tool
    • Free online journals
    • Learning about Learning
    • Shifting Thinking
    • Teachers' TV
    • EDtalks
    • EOTC guidelines
    • NZ educational theses database
  • Forms and templates
    • EOTC guidelines
  • Registered teacher criteria

  Partnerships and networks

  • Awhinatanga: guiding and supporting
    • Developing team leadership
    • Changing practice
    • Relationships are paramount
    • Learning conversations
    • Principalship in 40 hours a week?
  • Building community relationships
    • Leading the school community
    • Building partnerships
    • Consulting with communities
    • Involving parents, families and whānau
  • Building relationships with whānau, hapū, and iwi
    • Effective Bicultural Leadership
    • Taihape Area School: engaging their community

  Leadership development

  • Leadership programmes
    • Ako: being a learner
    • Ako in action
    • NAPP 2011
    • NAPP 2012
    • First-time principals' modules
    • He Kākano
    • Experienced principals development programme
  • Professional information
    • Stories from school leaders
    • Leadership e-newsletter archive
    • Considering principalship?
    • Principals' sabbatical reports
    • SSMs' sabbatical reports
    • Research of relevance to school leaders
    • Tū rangatira (Māori)
    • Kiwi leadership for principals
    • Tū rangatira (English)
    • Professional standards
    • Career pathways framework

• Audience landing pages

  • Middle and senior leaders
  • Aspiring principals
  • First-time principals
  • Experienced principals
  • Ngā-tūmuaki-ā-kura

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