• Professional readings

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  Managing your school

  • Guides for managing your school
    • Understanding school finances
    • Planning and reporting: School charters
    • Dealing with complaints
    • Effective communications
    • Understanding school employment
    • Understanding attendance
    • Understanding school property
    • Working from the inside: preparing for your next ERO visit
    • Starting the year off
    • Primary principals' annual calendar
    • Secondary principals' annual calendar
    • Managing your time
  • Forms and templates
  • Administration links
    • Mentoring your provisionally registered teachers
  • School support staff
  • No more nagging doubts
  • Managing key resources
    • Strategic planning: The lean, mean and smart way
    • Leadership for radical transformation in school education
    • Key features of appraisal effectiveness
    • Leading Under Pressure: Leadership for Social Inclusion
    • Got a Minute? Can Instructional Leadership Exist Despite the Reactive Nature of the Principalship?
    • What can New Zealand learn from Edmonton?
    • Turnaround Schools, Systems

  Leading change

  • Leading and managing change
    • Principals as leaders in a post-disaster setting
    • Leading meaningful change
    • School leadership in Christchurch 2013
    • Sustaining school improvement: ten primary schools' journeys
    • Moral purpose and shared leadership
    • Three stories of education reform
    • Balanced leadership
    • The roar of complexity
    • What headteachers need to know about teaching and learning
  • Māori education success
    • Culturally responsive pedagogy of relations
    • The challenge of equity
    • Ruia tools: appraisal and partnerships
    • Rangiātea: case studies and exemplars
    • Te Kotahitanga journey
    • Transitioning to school
    • Education partnerships
    • Talented and inspired leadership
    • Trusteeship and whānau
    • Supporting rangatahi
  • Future schools and innovation
    • Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching
    • Shifting thinking
    • OECD report: improving school leadership
    • Creating a vision to lead e-learning
    • Enabling e-Learning
    • Eight forces for leaders of change
    • Technology, the new pedagogy and flipped teaching
    • Schools of the future: Stephen Heppell
    • The school of the future: key issues for school leaders
    • Schooling for tomorrow: OECD scenarios
    • Meet the changemakers
  • Educational leadership in action
    • Developing team leadership
    • A model for change
    • Learning conversations
    • Walking the talk
    • Accountability
    • Practice-based attestation
    • A curriculum design journey
    • Relationships are paramount
    • The Learning Partners' programme
    • “Better than normal” learning journey
    • Shaping a Marautanga-ā-Kura
    • Principalship in 40 hours a week?
    • Teaching and learning
  • Organisational change
    • Keeping the fleas motivated
    • Tamaki College
    • Southern Cross Senior Campus
    • Educational reform and school leadership in 3-D perspective
    • Elephants and fleas: is your organisation prepared for change?
    • Systems thinkers in action
  • Strategic leadership
    • Rethinking school-wide self-review
    • Kaipaki School
    • Reframing reform
    • Systems thinkers in action
    • The five new rules of leadership
    • Do schools work?
    • Mission impossible?
    • What is the educational ‘bottom line’?

• Culture

  • Leading cultural change
    • Professional learning: leading culture
    • Creating and maintaining school cultures in times of change
    • Thinking About principalship
    • Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe
    • Kenakena School
    • Te Kura Kaupapa o Māori Manawatu
    • Oranga School
    • Gisborne Girls High School
    • Lincoln High School
    • Frimley School
    • St Patrick's School, Kaiapoi
    • Nawton School
    • Ashhurst School
    • Culture shift doesn’t occur overnight
    • Interview with Michael Fullan: Change agent
  • Understanding school cultures
    • Creating culturally safe schools for Māori students
    • What is our school culture like?
    • Selwyn Ridge School
    • School culture
    • Exploring School Culture
    • Improving relationships within the schoolhouse
  • Developing leaders
    • Listening to first-time principals
    • Principal Professional Learning as Part of the School Development Process
    • Mangere Central School: leading learning
    • Enhancing Internal Capacity: Leadership for Learning
    • Formation of Capable, Influential, and Authentic Leaders for Times of Uncertainty
    • Overcoming obstacles
    • Principal professional development: A fine balance
    • Professional development for principals: Seven core beliefs
  • Sharing leadership
    • Different approaches to sharing school leadership
    • Towards the Eminent School: The importance of professional leadership
    • Distributing leadership
    • Leadership: what's wrong?
    • Seven strong claims about successful school leadership
    • Building leadership capacity
  • Leading staff
    • Coaching learning relationships
    • Coaching leaders
    • Guidelines for induction and mentoring and mentor teachers
    • Engaging in courageous conversations
    • Building trusting relationships for school improvement
    • Healthy relationships
    • What do teachers bring to leadership?
    • Leading learning and teaching primary schools
    • Democratic leadership for school improvement in challenging contexts
  • Attitudes, values, and ethics
    • What ought I to do, all things considered?
    • Effective bicultural leadership
    • The ethical development of school principals
    • Using stories to shift attitudes: The case of bullying
    • The wounded leader
    • The roar of complexity
    • Meet the changemakers

  Leading learning

  • Spiral of inquiry: leaders leading learning
    • Linda Kaser: Phases of the spiral
    • Leadership and the spiral of inquiry
    • Scanning
    • Focusing
    • Developing a hunch
    • New learning
    • Taking action
    • Checking
    • Keeping it all going
    • Stories from the field
  • Collaborative cultures
    • Piritahi Community of Learning
    • West Auckland principals collaborate
    • Invercargill schools collaborate
    • A learning organisation
    • Learning is the work
    • Promoting collaborative learning cultures
    • Communities writ large
    • Too busy to learn?
  • Professional learning
    • Leading inquiry at a teacher level
    • Using evidence in the classroom for professional learning
    • The benefits of collaborative professional learning
    • Teacher professional learning
    • Personal learning
    • How friends can be critical
    • How do principals improve schools?
    • Teachers as learners
    • The flywheel effect

  Pedagogy and assessment

  • Pedagogical leadership
    • Teaching, learning and leading
    • Evidence-based leadership
    • School leadership and student outcomes
    • The cultural myths and realities of teaching and learning
    • National standards
    • Mangere East students and “Bobbie” maths
    • iPads in the east
    • Leading the instructional core
    • The principal’s priority 1
    • Leading curriculum innovation
    • Learning-centered principal
    • Leading learning: Creating high-achieving learning environments
  • Evidence-based leadership
    • The spiral of inquiry
    • Using evidence for learning
    • Data at Queen Charlotte College
    • Using data at Mairehau Primary School
    • Sharing assessment data with students
    • Southern Cross Campus
    • Opotiki Primary School
    • Using data, transforming potential into practice
    • Data rich world
    • Practices for learning
    • No schools left behind
    • The research-engaged school
  • Building effective learning environments
    • Leadership and inclusive school communities
    • Teachers Make a Difference: What is the Research Evidence?
    • Māori Education 2026
    • Aiming for student achievement
    • Using Best Evidence Syntheses for diverse learners
    • Everyone's included on the Rolly Express
    • Student engagement
    • All Our Students Thinking
    • Conversations that matter
    • Assessment Through the Student’s Eyes
    • Engage Me or Enrage Me: What Today’s Learners Demand
    • Listen to the Natives
    • The Ripple Effect
    • What we know about successful school leadership
    • Transforming high schools

  Problem solving

  • 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
    • When data signals change is needed
    • 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
  • 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 education journals
    • Teaching and learning toolkit
    • EDtalks
  • Forms and templates

  Partnerships and networks

  • Involving parents, families and whānau
    • Ngāue fakataha ki he ako 'a e fānau
    • Community and family influences
    • Aiming for student achievement
    • Accomplishing important work together
    • Finlayson Park School
    • Kaitangata School
    • Partnering with families
    • Six types of parental involvement
    • The unusual suspects
  • Building relationships with whānau, hapū, and iwi
    • Effective bicultural leadership
    • Taihape Area School

• Audience landing pages

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

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