Principal Speaks
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Education
Establishing a new primary school
Discover the incredible journey of setting up a brand new primary school, filled with excitement, challenges, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.…
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News
Principal Leanne Otene: We must mentor future principals differently, but how?
I have been a principal for nearly three decades. In all that time, I never dreamed that this role would…
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Education
Community Lessons I Bring As Tumuaki, Principal
Never underestimate the name of a school or the Rohe on which it sits. There is something humbling and raw…
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News
Play-based learning principles bolster our wellbeing
Principal Andrew King explains how school gardens, regular harvests and Colin the community cat are curating stronger wellbeing among his…
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Administration
Wilson School leading the way in special education
Our school environment is designed for learners aged five to twenty-one who have additional learning needs across a range of…
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Education
Waitakere College: Owning our solutions
West Auckland's Waitakere College is celebrating a dramatic rise in student achievement, especially for Māori and Pasifika. Principal Mark Shanahan…
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Education
Reflections of a Southlander on the West Coast
I managed to earn myself a speeding ticket recently as a result of panicking when passing a truck. It is…
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Education
Vision and values the crucial factors
It’s Saturday, February 28, 2015. The crowd erupts as New Zealand take yet another Australian wicket. They are crumbling right…
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Education
Adolescent complexity a challenge for teachers
It is interesting that when one is asked to give one’s personal view on any subject it usually results in…
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Education
The impact a philosophy had on raising student achievement
Two and a half years ago I began my second principalship at a decile 1b school in South Auckland. The…
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Education
Principals’ conference in Hamilton regarded as world class
Four hundred educational leaders assembled at Claudelands Conference and Exhibition Centre in Hamilton in early July for an annual New…
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Education
ReTooling School [a Manaiakalani story]
I began to realise that school had something seriously wrong with it on my 5th birthday. With my new leather…
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Education
Why Not Te Reo Language Assistants?
Whilst there has been great work in parts of New Zealand to save our Maori language and provide cultural revitalisation,…
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Education
21st-century learning at Scots College
Schools today in New Zealand face a real challenge in preparing 21st-century learners. We are now educating students who will…
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Education
Screening and sorting – still with us
For most young Kiwis, ICT is an integral part of life: texting, messaging, online gaming, chat rooms, blogging, podcasting and…
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Education
Post-EQ site sharing with Shirley Boys’ High School: a host’s perspective
Post-February 22, Christchurch schools have adapted our vocabularies to reflect our new way of working. Words such as “site sharing”…
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