Mentoring and coaching

Effective leadership can be developed and enhanced through mentoring and coaching by a peer partner.

New Zealand articles and resources

The Three Rs for Coaching Learning Relationships

by Jan Robertson

Dr Jan Robertson is the academic director of New Zealand’s National Aspiring Principals’ Programme (NAPP) which has a strong coaching element. In this short and very readable article Robertson stresses the need for the “3 Rs” (reciprocity, relationships and reflection-on-reality) as the basis for professional relationships and coaching about leading.

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Guidelines for Induction and Mentoring and Mentor Teachers

by NZTC

The New Zealand Teachers Council has developed the Guidelines for Induction and Mentoring and Mentor Teachers to support the provision of nationally consistent, high quality, and comprehensive support for Provisionally Registered Teachers (PRTs) in their first few years of practice and to enable them to become fully registered teachers. Download them from here.

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Coaching Leaders: The Path To Improvement

by Jan Robertson

This paper discusses the process of coaching with a peer partner as a key professional learning strategy for principals who are seeking to improve their leadership practice.

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New Zealand school stories

Developing team leadership

by Eric Shaw

Eric Shaw, principal of Highlands Intermediate School in New Plymouth, says that one of the most important and enjoyable roles he has as a principal is developing leadership within the school.

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Changing practice through distributed leadership

by Peter Witana

Over a number of years teachers at Kawakawa Primary School have been involved in sustained professional learning that has led them to make some fundamental changes to their teaching practice.

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A model for change

by Madeleine East

In her project principal Madeleine East writes about how a team of younger staff led the development of realigning the school’s curriculum delivery with The New Zealand Curriculum.

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Other resources

Small School Challenges: learning lessons from small school headteachers

by Amanda Tuck

Aspiring school leaders often contemplate their first movement into principalship via a small school. Amanda Tuck engaged in a significant research project interviewing leaders of small schools to find out their concerns, advantages, and the issues they face.

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Developing School Leaders One Principal at a Time

by Dennis Littky and Molly Schen

This article describes a mentor principal's personal account of an in-school, apprenticeship-based preparation programme for aspiring principals.

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