New Zealand articles and resources
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Jan Robertson and Lesley Murrihy
This report provides examples from research of how some school leaders and researchers, in New Zealand and England, have developed successful holistic, professional learning programmes for teachers.
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Graham Collins
This paper provides a concise look at some of the major issues facing teaching principals in New Zealand schools.
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Michael Fullan
This article emphasises the need to look further than the community of a single school if there is interest in an educational infrastructure that will build capacity over a long period
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Geoff Southworth
In this article, Geoff Southworth draws on research findings, inspection evidence, and first-hand experience to describe four strands that, woven together, seem to form the thread of leadership and leading "learning and teaching" schools.
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Sheryl Boris-Schacter
This article is an account of the author’s decision to take leave from her academic position to fill an interim position as a primary school principal for a whole school year. Her focus was on the extent to which principals can find a way to balance the administrative side of managing a school, and also provide pedagogical leadership in order to improve teaching and learning.
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Rick DuFour
In this commentary, Rick DuFour examines an area currently under close scrutiny in New Zealand: the impact that teacher practices have on student learning. He asks, “What happens in our schools when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn?”
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Cori Brewster and Jennifer Railsback
This article provides a review of the key research on the importance of building trusting relationships. Building trust between educators within a school has been identified as an important factor in developing effective schools and improving outcomes for students.
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Dean Fink
This article looks at creating school leaders. The author argues that lists for “best practice” to measure school leaders against does not equate to successful leadership. The only kind of practice that principals need to concern themselves with is the kind that contributes to and enhances students learning.
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Richard DuFour
In this article, Richard DuFour argues that the notion of the “instructional leader” is a flawed one. Using his own past experiences as an instructional leader - a principal who focuses particularly on teaching and curriculum — he shows that the initial approaches he used in this role focused on the wrong kinds of questions.
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Gordon A. Donaldson Jr.
This article looks at relationships and the development of teacher leaders. It moves away from the concentration on ‘official leadership’ structures within a school, to look at the ways in which effective teachers contribute to the development of a professional culture that influences the practice of others who work with them.
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Timothy Kanold
This article describes a successful high school in the USA, and poses questions about ways in which already successful schools can continue to improve their outcomes for students.
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Louise Stoll, Jan McKay and David Kember, and M. Cochrane-Smith and S. Lytle
This is a set of summaries, and links to three classic articles on teacher learning by Louise Stoll, 1999; Jan McKay and David Kember, 1997; and M. Cochrane-Smith and S. Lytle, 1999. Ideas from the summaries could be used as possible starting points for discussion, and it also suggests how these ideas might impact on school professional development programmes.
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Despina Pavlou
In this article secondary school principal, Despina Pavlou presents the story of her own school which uses action research to create a self-reflective culture to nurture school improvement.
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Jay McTighe and Ken O’Connor
This article considers assessment practices that improve both teaching and learning and provide descriptions and examples of summative, diagnostic, and formative assessment.
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Daniel Muijs, Mel Ainscow, Alan Dyson, Carlo Raffo, Sue Goldrick, Kristin Kerr, Clare Lennie, and Susie Miles
This article looks at ways to improve educational attainment for all students through the removal of barriers to engagement and achievement. It examines the types of school leadership that might assist in improving social inclusion for young people and their families. There is a useful discussion about what is meant by social inclusion.
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Robyn Collins
This article identifies factors that lead to greater success in terms of students' learning in all schools, which includes the development of school-wide learning communities.
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Kathleen Cushman
This classic article uses a case study approach to explore the efficacy of critical friendship groups (within schools and between schools) as a professional development approach, in particular where school change is a focus.
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Margaret Wheatley
In this article Margaret Wheatley laments the current ways that most institutions are leading and suggests alternative ways of constructing the notion of leadership that will appeal to a new generation of 'leadership pioneers'.
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Tim Waters, Robert J. Marzano, and Brian McNulty
This paper provides a review and quantitative analysis of 30 years of research into the impact of leadership on schooling.
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Peter Hill
This article considers what heads need to know about teaching and learning to be effective educational leaders. The discussion examines three key leadership roles: leading and managing change, motivating and managing people, and designing and aligning systems, processes, and resources.
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