Aiming for Student Achievement: How Teachers Can Understand and Better Meet the Needs of Māori and Pacific Island Students

by Jan Hill and Kay Hawk

This 1998 SET article examines the development of the AimHi project and research. Although this research is now older it still has relevance for schools. It explores the links between the world(s) of the student; the world(s) of home, and the world(s) of school, and how the collision of these worlds can impact on learning and achievement.

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Gender and School Leadership: The Experience of Women and Men Secondary Principals

by Marianne Coleman

This paper draws on research data from two large surveys of secondary school principals in England and Wales to explore gender differences for secondary principals in New Zealand.

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Tū rangatira: te kaitātaki i te mātauranga kaupapa Māori

Tū Rangatira: Ko te kaupapa o Tū Rangatira: Te Kaitātaki i Te Mātauranga Kaupapa Māori, he whakatakoto tauira o te tū hei kaitātaki e whakaata ana i ētahi o ngā tūranga me ngā kawenga matua a te kaitātaki e tino puta ai ngā ākonga Māori i ngā mahi rapu mātauranga.

Tū rangatira: Māori medium educational leadership

Tū Rangatira: Māori Medium Educational Leadership is a model of leadership that reflects some of the key leadership roles and practices that contribute to high-quality educational outcomes for Māori learners. It focuses on leadership practices, providing insights into how effective professional development programmes can work towards strengthening leaders’ capabilities, growing capacity and sustaining exemplary leadership in the Māori medium education sector.

Video: Professor Russell Bishop

by EDtalks

Russell Bishop is Professor of Māori Education at the University of Waikato and director of the Te Kotahitanga project. Here Professor Bishop talks about the need to provide a classroom context where caring and learning relationships, paramount to the educational performance of Maori students, can be developed.

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Shaping a Marautanga-ā-Kura with our community

by Helena Baker

Helena Baker is the principal of Te Kura o Tākaro, a decile 1 full primary for Year 0 to 8 students in Highbury, Palmerston North. She has been involved in leading the community through a curriculum design process.

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Otara School Links Literacy Success to Education Partnerships

by Ngā Haeata Mātauranga The Annual Report on Māori Education 2007/08

This case study focuses on Wymondley Road School principal Tone Kolose and his school’s experience of boosting the literacy achievement of its mostly Māori and Pasifika learners. School data shows more than 50 per cent of students in years 4 to 6 are writing at or above the national norms – a significant improvement on the previous year.

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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 school to find out their concerns, advantages, and the issues they face.

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Mission Impossible? A Strategic View of Efforts to Lead the Transformation of Schools

by Brian Caldwell

This article considers the challenges and possibilities for school leaders as they seek to transform schools, and provides examples of schools trying different models of leadership.

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