Secondary senior manager award recipients 2012

  1. Bowen, Jon

    St Peter's College (Palmerston North)

    To undertake professional learning activities that focus on personal professional development, leading effective change in elearning and collaborating and innovating curriculum change.

  2. Downs, Suzanne

    Napier Girls' High School

    To analyse the progress of NGHS Thinking Skills Programme by comparing with other schools, who are known for their thinking skills programmes, and assessing the thinking of the Year 13 students who commenced the programme as Year 9 students.

  3. Fowler, Mike

    Hagley Community College

    To investigate how senior managers can offer effective curriculum-related leadership to teachers in charge of subjects?

  4. Giles, Antony

    St Patrick's College (Silverstream)

    To investigate best practice in engaging and motivating Pasifika students and to develop an action plan to drive improved Pasifika students outcomes, including recommendations for effective home-school partnerships.

  5. Hynes, Leigh

    Ruapehu College

    To investigate the use of e-portfolios in a selection of schools and develop a plan for the implementation of the best use of e-portfolios for students and teachers.

  6. Kahl, Jo

    Wellington Girls' College

    To investigate mentoring programmes with a view to instigating a consistent, comprehensive programme for mentoring emerging leaders.

  7. Killalea, Dominic

    Wellington High School and Com Ed Centre

    To investigate how growing accessibility and interactivity in ICT is being managed in schools both in New Zealand and overseas.

  8. Knipping, Steven

    Bishop Viard College

    To investigate the potential of a school junior graduation model to motivate students to achieve success.

  9. Saunders, Andrew

    Selwyn College

    To investigate academic excellence and community development in multicultural schools in Auckland, London and New York.

  10. Yule, Bettina

    Mt Maunganui College

    To visit Queensland schools and investigate ways to implement and integrate Positive Behaviour for Learning successfully.

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