Vision, values and principles
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Reading General
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Reading General
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Reading General
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Values clusters (Word 23.5kB)
The values in the New Zealand Curriculum are broad and rich. Each value is in essence a values “cluster” that has a range of values, ideas, and concepts within it.
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/content/download/437/3564/file/Value...
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Book Secondary
Disciplining and drafting, or 21st century learning?
"Will today’s curriculum prepare secondary school students for life in the 21st century? Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert propose radical new models for schooling that challenge long-held ideas about the purpose and structure of the senior secondary years."
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?cPath=345_139_133_43&products_i...
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Reading General
Knowledge and skills for life: First results from PISA 2000
“A new three-yearly survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries. A new way of looking at student performance. A unique collaboration between countries to monitor educational outcomes.”
http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/46/0,2340,en_32252351_32236159_33...
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Reading General
Exploring school culture
Jane turner and Carolyn Crang's interactive seminar held for education professionals and parents to examine the meaning of school culture as a concept, to explore different views on school culture and for participants to discuss their own beliefs about school culture.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/exploring-school-c...
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Reading General
School culture
Louise Stoll’s article explores the relationship between school culture and school improvement.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/school-culture.php
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What is our school culture like? - A checklist for analysing a school's culture
Gathering the data for this audit should allow you to identify the range of cultural issues, beliefs, practices, norms and values that prevail in your school as an initial step to evaluating how these might impact upon student learning.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/what-is-our-school...
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Shared culture: A consensus of individual values
Provides a brief theoretical context on the importance of the principal’s role in shaping school cultures. This is followed by practical examples from schools where principals have tried different strategies to develop a culture in which the whole staff is engaged and comfortable.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/a-consensus-of-ind...
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The school culture. Bridge or barrier to change
School culture viewed as the existence of an interplay between three factors: the attitudes and beliefs of people both inside the school and in the external environment, the cultural norms of the school, and the relationships between people in the school.
http://www.sedl.org/change/school/culture.html
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Accomplishing important work together
In this article from set: Research Information for Teachers, 3, 2002, Dr Helen Timperley and Associate Professor Viviane Robinson examine what is meant by the term ‘partnership’ when applied in an education context.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/accomplishing-impo...
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Reading General
Schooling for tomorrow: OECD scenarios
These scenarios are from the Schooling for Tomorrow series developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Centre for Education and Research (CERI). The series forms part of a long term OECD project that is focused on developing an international body of analysis, reflection and experience intended to contribute to long-term thinking in education. The scenarios outlined here are based on those in the OECD’s 2001 publication, What schools for the future?
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/oecd-scenarios.php
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Reading General
The school of the future: Key issues for school leaders
What will the leaders of schools in the future be like? It could be that future schools will face radically different challenges which will require different qualities and skills for those in leadership roles. In this article from the National College of School Leadership, David Bennett considers five of these challenges, together with five sets of leadership qualities to meet them.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/the-school-of-the-...
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Reading General
The shape of things to come
The Shape of Things to Come, by Charles Leadbeater, provides a substantial explanation of personalised learning, its impact on learners, and its implications for how schools function. It reports on primary and secondary schools in the UK which have already begun to implement this approach to teaching, learning, and curriculum.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/decision-making/shape-of-th...
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Engage me or enrage me: What today's learners demand
Marc Prensky argues provocatively that the current, wired, technology-savvy generation of students are engaged everywhere in their lives except at school. “And here it is so boring that the kids, used to this other life, just can’t stand it”.
http://www.leadspace.govt.nz/leadership/articles/engage-me-or-enrag...
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Reading General
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Reading General
Expanding the capacity to learn: a new end for education?
Guy Claxton's opening keynote address at the British Educational Research Association's annual conference, September 2006.
http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/blp/Extras.html
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Reading General
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Reading General
Leadership for radical transformation in school education
A paper by Professor Brian Caldwell presented at the ACER conference, August 2007.
http://www.acer.edu.au/research_conferences/2007.html
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Reading General
Moral purpose and shared leadership: The leaders transforming learning and learners pilot study
A paper by Associate Professor Michael Bezzina presented at the ACER conference, August 2007.
http://www.acer.edu.au/research_conferences/2007.html
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Blog General
How to be successful
Stephen Downes' top ten rules on what you need to learn in order to be successful.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/11/how_to_be_successful_...
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Multimedia General
The world is flat
Thomas Freidman's MIT address about his book on globalisation and the great changes taking place as a result of new technologies and communication.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/264/noreal/
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Multimedia General
Teachers TV: Gurus
Tony Buzan speaks on improving memory and brainpower, and argues that schools should change the way they teach children in order to increase creativity.
http://www.teachers.tv/video/5082
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Multimedia General
Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
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Book General
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Book General
School leadership that works: From research to results
Marzano, R., Waters,T. & McNulty, B. (2005). School leadership that works: From research to results. VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=12290
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