Leadership events for 2010
Check out the latest additions to our 2010 Leadership Events calendar here. The calendar is updated regularly.
| Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
February
Ako Panuku: Leadership and Management Course
17–19 February
Auckland
Overview
Ako Panuku welcomes teachers into 2010 with a new leadership and management course. This new Ako Panuku course is for aspiring leaders and managers and those already in leadership and management positions. The course looks at further developing leadership and management skills, the theory and application of leadership and management for raising Māori student achievement. If you are looking for more effective leadership and management skills and wanting to join a network of likeminded teaching professionals - this course is for you.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
04 463 8850
Being an Effective Dean
22 February
Auckland
Presenters
Jan Hill and Kay Hawk
Overview
A practical day for new deans or those needing a refresher. This course explores the complex demands of the role, and provides plenty of tools and strategies to take away.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
09 835 0912
Being an Effective HoD
23 February
Auckland
Presenters
Jan Hill and Kay Hawk
Overview
This course is primarily designed for teachers who are new to a Head of Department position in a secondary school. It caters for HoDs of both large and small departments.
Schools rely heavily on the effective leadership of their middle managers to enhance the quality of teaching and learning and to ensure that students are getting the very best opportunities to succeed. They play a pivotal role in developing school culture and ensuring that the school functions as a strong and healthy organisation for its staff and students.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
09 835 0912
Leadership in the 21st Century
24 February
Auckland
Presenter
Dr Tom Hoerr
Overview
We expect more of leaders, and they can no longer lead simply based on their title or their position within the hierarchy. They lead based on their expertise and the relationships that they have developed through their experience.
In this workshop Tom Hoerr will talk about the skills and understandings that will be needed by leaders today and tomorrow. Tom Hoerr believes that perception is reality, and that leadership should be inclusive and empowering. He has written exclusively about these issues in his bi-monthly column, "The Principal Connection", in Educational Leadership.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
09 835 0912
Accelerated AP/DP Leadership Programme
25 February
Wellington
Presenters
John McLellan and Judith Price
Overview
You have already established yourself as a capable contributor to your school and your skills provide a launching point for leadership roles. The Accelerated AP/DP Leadership Programme is designed to help you grow your capability, building on strengths you already possess.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
Sharon Hurst 04 293 1650 or
enquiries@interlead.co.nz
Learning@School 2010
23 – 26 February
Rotorua Energy Events Centre
Overview
Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, more than 300 workshops will be run by leading practitioners from current and past ICT PD clusters. Taking part in the conference is a critical part of developing the professional learning community that emanates across New Zealand from within the ICT PD network.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link.
March
Accelerated AP/DP Leadership Programme
4 March and 11 March
Havelock North and Christchurch
Presenters
John McLellan and Judith Price
Overview
You have already established yourself as a capable contributor to your school and your skills provide a launching point for leadership roles. The Accelerated AP/DP Leadership Programme is designed to help you grow your capability, building on strengths you already possess.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
Sharon Hurst 04 293 1650 or
enquiries@interlead.co.nz
International Leadership Institute: Leadership for the Future
8 – 11 March
Novotel-Tainui Hotel, Hamilton
Chair
Jeremy Kedian, Waikato University
Facilitator
Professor John West-Burnham, National College of School Leadership (NCSL), UK
Overview
The Institute will focus on leadership in the long-term, seeing engagement with the future and strategic thinking as central to effective leadership.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Leading a Professional Learning Community: a series for middle leaders
10 March, 5 May, 9 June, 11 August, 8 September
Auckland
Presenter
Kerry Mitchell
Overview
Recognising the changing role of leaders in schools, this professional learning programme provides the opportunity for middle leaders to:
- Develop and lead a professional learning community
- Make evidence-based decisions for professional development
- Analyse and interpret student achievement data
Each session will allow time for professional reading, reflection, discussion and skill development.
- Wed 10 March Session 1: Research on effective professional development
- Wed 5 May Session 2: What is a professional learning community? Exploration of reseach and definitions; reflecting on my school and my team.
- Wed 9 June Session 3: The Challenge of Collegial Decision Making
- Wed 11 August Session 4: Using Evidence in Teaching Practice
- Wed 8 September Session 5: Analysis and interpretation of Student Achievement Data - Learning talk. Sharing experience and progress: where to now?
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
09 835 0912
The Paua of Leadership: the outer and inner worlds of professional practice
15 March
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Holiday Inn on Avon, 356 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch
16 March
8.30am - 3.30pm
Novotel Auckland Ellerslie, 72 - 112 Greenlane Road East, Auckland
Presenter
Dr Jan Robertson
Overview
This seminar will explore how educational leaders, at all levels, might be to effectively lead change, build relational trust, create the conditions for improving learning, and effectively deal with the complex issues that are faced in every school community.The theory and practice of effective professional learning will be explored using an experiential and coaching approach. The content will include:
- understanding and managing self within leadership and learning
- exploring and identifying core values and beliefs underpinning leadership
- lenses and metaphor for understanding leadership and learning – including Ako (being a learner) , Manaakitanga (leading with moral purpose), Pono (having self-belief), and Awhinatanga (guiding and supporting)
- the place of personal development in professional development
- building relational trust for developing others
- developing educational leadership capacity in self and others.
For more information, and to book online click on the date links above.
How to Change 2700 Schools
18 March
5pm - 7pm
University of Auckland Business School
Owen G. Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland
Presenter
Professor Ben Levin
Overview
This seminar will look at the requirements for system-level improvement in education in the context of New Zealand. Built on his recent and internationally acclaimed book How to change 5000 schools, Ben Levin’s address will outline the requirements to create real and lasting improvement across a large number of schools in an education system.
Some of these questions are and will be responded to in Ben Levin’s address:
- What do schools need to do?
- What are the key changes in instruction and in supporting activities?
- How can people feel and be a part of large scale change?
- What needs to happen at a system level?
- How can system-level improvement be sustained over time?
- What should be done by government, national agencies and professional bodies?
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
SPANZ Symposium 2010
21 – 24 March
Crown Plaza Hotel, Queenstown
Places are limited to the first 160 registrants. Please register your interest by emailing: office@spanz.school.nz
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Ako Panuku: Leadership and Management Course
24 – 26 March
Christchurch
Overview
Ako Panuku welcomes teachers into 2010 with a new leadership and management course. This new Ako Panuku course is for aspiring leaders and managers and those already in leadership and management positions. The course looks at further developing leadership and management skills, the theory and application of leadership and management for raising Māori student achievement. If you are looking for more effective leadership and management skills and wanting to join a network of likeminded teaching professionals - this course is for you.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
04 463 8850
Coaching and Mentoring
26 March, 23 April, 21 May
Educational Leadership Centre, University of Waikato
Hamilton
Facilitators
Jenny Ferrier-Kerr and Michele Morrison
Overview
This three-day series, designed for educational leaders who support the ongoing learning and professional growth of colleagues, introduces teaching professionals to the theory and practice of coaching and mentoring. Participants will gain insight into their own coaching and mentoring perspectives, and will be encouraged to reflect on and in their coaching / mentoring practice.
Email: leaders@waikato.ac.nz
Contact
07 8384369
April
NZEALS International Educational Leadership Conference
7 – 9 April
Christchurch
Overview
At the heart of educational leadership are people and learning. This conference will appeal to professionals from all areas of education and challenge your thinking, your values and your practice through the following themes:
- Leadership for Learning
- People Leadership
- Sustainable Leadership
We extend a warm invitation to all education professionals and policy-makers to join us at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch from April 7-9 for the 2010 NZEALS conference “Leadership: A Juggling Act?”. The conference positions people and learning at the heart of educational leadership and will be an enriching three days.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Carrying the Tapa: teaching Pasifika students for non-Pasifika teachers
12 – 14 April
Quality Hotel, Wellington
Presenters
Helen Hardwick, Gabrielle-Sisifo Makisi, Sheridan Mackenzie and Michelle Maiava
Overview
This course will offer primary and secondary teachers an opportunity to explore:
- Cultural Context: Being a Non-Pasifika Teacher of Pasifika students.
- Being Pacific – values, vision, importance of family, church, the ‘immigrant dream’, geography, language, education in the Pacific
- How to develop and maintain good relationships: with Students, Families and Communities, School-wide
- Best Practice: What’s working? Share what you do, hear research and case studies, hear from students, consider expectations, curriculum, resources
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link. Then click on "courses" in the right-hand column.
May
Leading Innovatively in Complex Times
10 May
8.30am - 4pm
Novotel Auckland Ellerslie, 72 - 112 Greenlane Road East, Auckland
Presenters
Dr Brigid Carroll
Dr Peter Blyde
Joline Francoeur
Overview
This seminar is orientated at helping senior educational leaders recognise, claim, and grow the space to be innovative in their leadership despite the structures and pressures that can appear to close such a space down.
Drawing on internationally acclaimed and original research, this team from the New Zealand Leadership Institute will work with you to understand the nature of innovative leadership, highlight the practices that support such leadership in times of turbulence, uncertainty and complexity, and build the capacity for those in leadership positions to be authentic, vital and creative in the face of unceasing demands.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Building Relational Trust: leadership relationships that impact on student outcomes
13 –14 May
8.30am - 3.30pm
Lindisfarne College, 600 Pakowhai Road, Hastings
20 – 21 May
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Distinction Hotel, Fenton St, Rotorua
Presenter
Professor Viviane Robinson
Overview
This two-day seminar will focus on how to use ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to build trusting relationships. The BES School Leadership and Student Outcomes research findings about leadership practices that have a significant effect on student outcomes provides the context for building relational trust. The seminar will explain how to build trust through conversations that are deeply respectful of people and simultaneously tough on the problems that they need to address.
Through being at this seminar, participants will be able to:
- deepen their understanding of the leadership dimensions important for high performing schools that give priority to improving student outcomes
- accurately explain the key values and skills associated with open-to-learning conversations
- understand the role of such conversations in leading teacher change and building trust in your school community
- Through guided practice and feedback, develop your skills in holding ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to support your leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning.
- Plan and rehearse an ‘open to learning’ conversation to address an issue for which you are responsible.
For more information, and to book online click on the date links above.
June
Building Relational Trust: leadership relationships that impact on student outcomes
3 – 4 June
8.30am - 3.30pm
Novotel Auckland Ellerslie, 72 - 112 Greenlane Road East, Auckland
Presenter
Professor Viviane Robinson
Overview
This two-day seminar will focus on how to use ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to build trusting relationships. The BES School Leadership and Student Outcomes research findings about leadership practices that have a significant effect on student outcomes provides the context for building relational trust. The seminar will explain how to build trust through conversations that are deeply respectful of people and simultaneously tough on the problems that they need to address.
Through being at this seminar, participants will be able to:
- deepen their understanding of the leadership dimensions important for high performing schools that give priority to improving student outcomes
- accurately explain the key values and skills associated with open-to-learning conversations
- understand the role of such conversations in leading teacher change and building trust in your school community
- through guided practice and feedback, develop your skills in holding ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to support your leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning
- plan and rehearse an ‘open to learning’ conversation to address an issue for which you are responsible.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Combining Evidence about Teaching and from Learning to Make More Informed Judgments
5 June
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Holiday Inn on Avon, 356 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch
Presenters
Professor Stuart McNaughton, Aaron Wilson and Rebecca Jesson
Overview
This seminar uses research-based studies of schools and groups of schools to outline the principles and practices that enable these connections to be developed in ways that are efficient and informative. At the Woolf Fisher Research Centre a research and development model has been implemented in 14 schools in South Auckland and 34 schools on the West Coast of the South Island resulting in exceptional outcomes. The case studies come from primary and secondary school levels and are focused on teaching and learning in literacy and literacy across the curriculum.
The seminar will help leaders in diverse leadership positions and levels in primary and secondary schools, including literacy leaders, to:
- understand the need to gather high quality evidence for both teaching and learning
- explore effective and efficient ways that this evidence, particularly about teaching practices, can be collected and analysed
- through workshop activities develop essential skills for connecting these teaching and learning sources of evidence
- make informed judgments about the quality of teaching and learning for the further improvement of student outcomes
- develop effective ways of testing and feeding back the evidence to teachers.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
New Zealand Principals’ Federation Conference 2010: Truly Remarkable
29 June – 2 July
Queenstown Events Centre
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
July
NZSTA Annual Conference 2010 Board as Leaders: challenging achievement outcomes
9 – 11 July
Christchurch Convention Centre
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
School Executive Officers' Conference: Outside the Comfort Zone
14 – 17 July
The Langham Hotel, Symonds St, Auckland
Overview
The annual conference for school executive officers is an opportunity for informative sessions, workshops, and networking.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Combining Evidence about Teaching and from Learning to Make More Informed Judgments
21 July
8.30am - 3.30pm
Novotel Auckland Ellerslie, 72 - 112 Greenlane Road East, Auckland
22 July
8.30am - 3.30pm
Copthorne Hotel and Resort Bay of Islands, Tau Henare Drive, Paihia
Presenters
Professor Stuart McNaughton, Aaron Wilson and Rebecca Jesson
Overview
This seminar uses research-based studies of schools and groups of schools to outline the principles and practices that enable these connections to be developed in ways that are efficient and informative. At the Woolf Fisher Research Centre a research and development model has been implemented in 14 schools in South Auckland and 34 schools on the West Coast of the South Island resulting in exceptional outcomes. The case studies come from primary and secondary school levels and are focused on teaching and learning in literacy and literacy across the curriculum.
The seminar will help leaders in diverse leadership positions and levels in primary and secondary schools, including literacy leaders, to:
- understand the need to gather high quality evidence for both teaching and learning
- explore effective and efficient ways that this evidence, particularly about teaching practices, can be collected and analysed
- through workshop activities develop essential skills for connecting these teaching and learning sources of evidence
- make informed judgments about the quality of teaching and learning for the further improvement of student outcomes
- develop effective ways of testing and feeding back the evidence to teachers.
For more information, and to book online click on the date links above.
Being an Effective Coach
22 July
Auckland
Presenters
Jan Hill and Kay Hawk
Overview
The workshop will cover:
- The philosophy of coaching
- What is coached (i.e. the focus of the coaching)
- The role of the coach
- Collecting teaching and learning data
- How to organise a coaching programme
- How to get started
- Training coaches
- How coaching fits with appraisal
- What about competency?
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
09 835 0912
Ako Panuku: Leadership and Management Course
28 – 30 July
Taupo / Rotorua
Overview
Ako Panuku welcomes teachers into 2010 with a new leadership and management course. This new Ako Panuku course is for aspiring leaders and managers and those already in leadership and management positions. The course looks at further developing leadership and management skills, the theory and application of leadership and management for raising Māori student achievement. If you are looking for more effective leadership and management skills and wanting to join a network of likeminded teaching professionals - this course is for you.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
04 463 8850
August
Parallel Leadership: building leadership capacity within the school
9 August
8.30am - 3.30pm
Novotel Auckland Ellerslie, 72 - 112 Greenlane Road East, Auckland
10 August
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Holiday Inn on Avon, 356 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch
12 August
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Distinction Hotel, Fenton St, Rotorua
13 August
8.30am - 3.30pm
Napier War Memorial Conference Centre, 48 Marine Parade, Napier
Presenter
Emeritus Professor Frank Crowther
Overview
This seminar will highlight the concept of “parallel leadership” as an approach to “distributed” leadership in improving and sustaining enhanced student outcomes. Very recent and authoritative international research findings in relation to the roles and functions of leaders in schools will be outlined. Frank Crowther will illustrate the concept of “parallel leadership” through his extensive experiences with the IDEAS Project that has been implemented in several hundred schools in Australia and internationally. Recent research has shown how the leadership capacity-building model embedded in the IDEAS Project has increased professional trust and school-wide responsibility, enhanced teaching practice in classrooms, improved student engagement and learning, and significantly improved student achievement.
For more information, and to book online click on the date links above.
Ako Panuku: Leadership and Management Course
25 – 27 August
Auckland
Overview
Ako Panuku welcomes teachers into 2010 with a new leadership and management course. This new Ako Panuku course is for aspiring leaders and managers and those already in leadership and management positions. The course looks at further developing leadership and management skills, the theory and application of leadership and management for raising Māori student achievement. If you are looking for more effective leadership and management skills and wanting to join a network of likeminded teaching professionals - this course is for you.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Contact
04 463 8850
September
Te Akatea National Maori Principals' Conference
8 – 11 September
Rendevous Hotel, Auckland
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) Conference 2010: hosting and harvesting
29 and 30 September and 1 October
Sydney, Australia
Visit this website for more information
October
Rethinking Assessment with Purpose in Mind
18 October
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Holiday Inn on Avon, 356 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch
19 October
8.30am - 3.30pm
Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre, 58 Waipuna Rd, Mt Wellington, Auckland
Presenter
Dr Lorna Earl
Overview
As learning and educational success increasingly become both an individual school and a wider national priority for all students, assessment takes on a new and different role. When assessment becomes a key component of learning, it can provide teachers and students with a powerful “window” into what students understand and a key mechanism for deciding what to do next for the improvement of student outcomes.
In this seminar, Lorna Earl will focus on three critical purposes of assessment and influential responses to these, all of which are important in classroom practice: assessment for learning, assessment as learning, assessment of learning.
For more information, and to book online click on the date links above.
November
Building Relational Trust: leadership relationships that impact on student outcomes
25 – 26 November
8.30am - 3.30pm
The Holiday Inn on Avon, 356 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch
Presenter
Professor Viviane Robinson
Overview
This two-day seminar will focus on how to use ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to build trusting relationships. The BES School Leadership and Student Outcomes research findings about leadership practices that have a significant effect on student outcomes provides the context for building relational trust. The seminar will explain how to build trust through conversations that are deeply respectful of people and simultaneously tough on the problems that they need to address.
Through being at this seminar, participants will be able to:
- deepen their understanding of the leadership dimensions important for high performing schools that give priority to improving student outcomes
- accurately explain the key values and skills associated with open-to-learning conversations
- understand the role of such conversations in leading teacher change and building trust in your school community
- through guided practice and feedback, develop your skills in holding ‘open-to-learning’ conversations to support your leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning
- plan and rehearse an ‘open to learning’ conversation to address an issue for which you are responsible.
Find information on venue, registration, and programme by clicking on this link
