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Industry Voices
Education workforce: What does NZ need?
What about the valuable pool of older, talented teachers who could be encouraged to return but have been put off…
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Administration
Where is the funding for support staff pay rise?
Schools are anxious about how they can afford the new rates and have called on the Ministry of Education to…
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Education
Does integrating school curriculum areas work?
Maths was especially difficult to integrate, and many teachers chose to continue teaching this as a single learning area...
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Administration
Last min offer for primary principals
Could this be the winner? A union vote will decide by August 26.
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Administration
Primary principals may cut ties with Ministry
Boycott threats, protests in Auckland and handwritten letters to the Ministry have dominated headlines this week as primary principals fight…
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News
Getting to grips with health and safety law
It is up to the elected health and safety representative in your school to understand the Act and promote positive…
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Administration
Appraisal tools giving teachers autonomy
Historically, if an appraiser didn’t like you, they could give you a hard time during an appraisal meeting.
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Education
Education minister grilled on mega-strike, ‘no more money’, Francis Report
As negotiations relaunch, this groundbreaking mega-strike has the nation on the edge of its seat.
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Administration
Area schools vote on whether to join strike
There are 136 area schools in New Zealand. Most are kura kaupapa Māori or wharekura, in rural areas, or urban…
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News
Education ministry: There are ways we can address workload
There are ways to address teacher workloads that do not require more money and teachers' claims of a crisis cannot…
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Education
Secondary schools need more support for student wellbeing
School-based supports may include in-school counsellors, Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB), and health professionals based at schools.
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Administration
Primary teachers and principals reject latest offers
“We will be going straight back to talk to the Government with that message - that it’s time to get…
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Administration
Five key values of strong Māori leadership
Finding Māori leaders is no easy feat. Not because we lack leaders, but because they are reluctant to stand up…
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News
Hundreds of teacher vacancies as schools reopen
Some principals said they had been forced to take measures such as hiring retired teachers, using several part-timers to cover…
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News
Why we are quitting: teachers reveal all
"Far too much teaching for assessment rather than for learning and critical thinking. Endless administration, pointless meetings and increasingly unreasonable…
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Administration
Concerned education unions consider joint action
Elected leaders of 48,000 principals and teachers from PPTA Te Wehengarua and NZEI Te Riu Roa have met and agreed…
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Administration
The thing that makes a teacher great and data cannot recreate
In conversation with education innovator Sir Ken Robinson, School News deliberated over misconceptions about great teaching.
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Administration
High school students build tiny houses!
“At the start I had no idea what I was doing…it was all pretty challenging to be honest, but I…
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Education
Students walk out of school over principal’s truancy comments
More than 100 students walked out of a Hamilton high school in protest after the principal said truants are more…
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Administration
OPINION: The mad hatters are now in control of our classrooms
Five-year-olds are ruling classrooms since ministry guidelines on restraint have been implemented, says Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association President, Pat Newman.
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Administration
Principals’ unmanageable expectations a concern for Trustees
Despite inflammatory language being used in media coverage, NZSTA says it is not suggesting that principals should "be dumped" from…
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Education
Low decile students outperforming higher decile schools
A cluster of low decile Northland schools is on track to outperform many higher decile schools around New Zealand through…
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News
Your stories: Feilding High School makes engineering fun
Roger dreamed up the pioneering idea in 2006 with a small debut race of just 12 mini-bikes, and was immediately…
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News
Bomb threats & earthquakes: schools need to improve emergency preparedness
Research included three true-life case studies of Wellington schools that had experienced a bomb threat, flood and earthquake respectively to…
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News
Educators clap back at budget announcement
Should the government be doing more? Many people, from teachers and teaching aides, to associations and education groups have voiced…
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