Leadership news

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This page keeps you up-to-date with information and material about leadership. Visit often, as new material is added regularly. Look for the new! icon throughout the Leadership area.

New! Creating culturally-safe schools for Māori students
This article presents findings from its authors – Angus Macfarlane, Ted Glynn, Tom Cavanagh, and Sonja Bateman – about ways to create culturally safe classrooms in New Zealand schools. In particular, it focuses on ways in which teachers and schools can create inclusive environments for Māori students. The authors remind us that all students benefit from being in culturally inclusive classrooms.
Download a copy of the article, and consider reflective questions to guide your reading of it.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/creating-culturally.php

New! Māori Education 2026
This article by Mason Durie is a very interesting article for use with principals’ groups, senior management teams, teachers, and the wider community. Though a little longer than some LeadSpace readings, it is easy reading and provokes our thinking. From the thinking and discussion, it should be possible to develop policy and action.
Download a copy of the article, and consider reflective questions to guide your reading of it.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/maori-education.php

All our students thinking
This article by Nel Noddings will question some deeply held beliefs and is therefore quite provocative. Noddings considers, in terms of developing students’ thinking skills, whether all subjects are equally useful and whether teaching using pre-set unit plans is challenging for students.
Download a copy of the article, and consider reflective questions to guide your reading of it.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/students-thinking.php

Moral purpose and shared leadership: The leaders transforming learning and learners pilot study
This article by Michael Bezzina reports on the outcomes of a pilot study known as Leaders Transforming Learning and Learners (LTLL). The study explores the role of shared moral purpose and shared leadership in supporting teachers as they strive to implement authentic learning in their schools and classrooms.
Download a copy of the article, and consider reflective questions to guide your reading of it.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/moral-purpose-shared-leadership.php

As part of a long-term strategy focused on building leadership capacity in New Zealand schools, the Ministry of Education has a number of initiatives that provide support and development for principals, senior management, and other school leaders. This link takes you to information on each of those initiatives.
http://www.leadspace.govt/leadership/news/initiatives.php

Read how material is chosen for the site by the school principals and academics who make up the review team.

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