He Kākano: culturally responsive leadership
He Kākano is a significant new in-depth professional learning programme for secondary and area school leadership teams. The programme focuses on growing culturally responsive pedagogical school leadership – leadership that actively takes account of the culture of Māori learners to build relationships that result in achievement success.
The He Kakano programme is being offered from the start of 2010 and runs to the end of 2012. Participating school teams will be involved in a mix of intensive cultural and professional learning with ongoing and varied mentoring and coaching support.
“Responsive and accountable professional leadership” is identified in Ka Hikitia as one of the “key levers for change” that will make the most difference for and with Māori learners. He Kākano will spearhead development for participants’ schools in this area. Its rich and diverse elements will enable leadership teams to implement sustainable culturally responsive leadership, and school-wide and classroom practices that are critical for improving school performance for Māori students.
School leadership teams that take part in He Kākano will:
- challenge their own ideas about Māori learners’ engagement and achievement;
- gather, interpret and use a range of data and other evidence to develop a comprehensive profile of their Māori learners’ achievements;
- establish targets and tailored plans for sustainable improvement in the school’s performance for and with Māori learners;
- work together to analyse their leadership and wider school capability to lead and implement culturally responsive pedagogical leadership practices and school processes (including governance) that build Māori achievement success;
- lead and manage change within their professional practices that responds to the needs of culturally located Māori learners;
- build relationships, partnerships and networks that include whānau, hapu and iwi to support ongoing improvement in leadership, teacher, learner and school performance.
Read more about this programme in this Education Gazette article.
The period for expressions of interest in joining this programme has now expired.
