Building Professional Relationships

The relationships and connections we build and develop as education leaders is an essential component to improving outcomes for students.  Understanding our learners wholistically, knowing who and what is important to them and the environment they are immersed in enables us to truly understand and know our learners. This allows teachers to facilitate learning opportunities that connect with our learners and take them to new learning. Student, teacher, leader, school and Kāhui Ako connections with individuals, communities and professions allows for multiple new learning possibilities.

This lovely thank you card exemplifies many of the powerful education connections I develop in my work.  I am very lucky to be able to build these relationships nationawide in my current role. We are all resources for one another.

Accelerating Achievement

The focus for my work is to accelerate achievement and in particular for learners who have traditionally been underserved by our school system.   Working in a variety education environments that face complex challenges, requires a blend of researched and innovative approaches to address this.   Knowing what works and for whom is extremely important.  Using research (about what works and for whom) within teaching inquiry to develop and refine teaching that stimulates accelerated achievement in a specific context, for specific learners is essential.

This is an excerpt of data analysis in a school I have been working in. We are all thrilled with the change in achievement data.

There is a lot of good information available to help teachers, leaders, schools and Kāhui Ako to raise achievement.   The example below is from an ERO report in 2015 RAISING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH TARGETED ACTIONS.

Click to read this report