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Education Leaders Forum 2013: Building 21c Learning Communities, 28&29 August, Christchurch - presented by SmartNet Events.
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Educational Leaders Forum 2013 Christchurch
28 August
Robin Staples
Changing the configuration of schools serving low decile communities to improve student outcomes? ………………………………….
3 Contexts
Advantages
Opportunities
Challenges
Context 1 A Northland District High School 1973
Succession of short term Principals
Social upheaval
Looking back ……………
Bad ERO reports
Collapse of secondary schooling
Business cases - Wyatt Creech
- Mary Sinclair - MOE
My first Principalship 1997
Grit?
Powhiri but real welcome day 1
Context 2 South Auckland 1995 - 1997
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
School Roll
• The number of
students increased
every year
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
Helen Year 9
Year 13
Context 3
A young population
Roll not viable especially Y10 - 13
Social upheaval
Community safety and Policing issues
Staff shortages
1996 Mangere
All ages mix coming to and going from school –
with separate learning and play areas
Review of structure - 2007
One Area School:
Y1 – 6 Junior School (500)
Y7 – 9 Middle School (400)
Y10 – 13 Senior School (600)
Y1 – 13 Kura (300)
Four enrolment zones
Y 1 – 6
Y 7 – 8, Year 7 intake
Y 9 – 13, Year 9 intake
Zone based on Te Reo prerequisite
Structure now
Two Area Schools:
Y1 – 6 Junior School (500)
Y7 – 13 College (1000)
Y1 – 13 Kura (300)
Four enrolment zones
Y 1 – 6
Y 7 – 8, Year 7 intake
Y 9 – 13, Year 9 intake
Zone based on Reo prerequisite
Action Plan Serious about Learning 2013
• Student planners
• Attend every day
• Learning Advisors - Individual NCEA plans
• Complete all work, handed in on time
• Aim for Merit and Excellence Grades
Restorative Justice
Health
Participation
Engagement
Ownership
Leadership Strategic Plans
“Learning
Comes First”
“Do what ever it takes”
Excellent Learning – Saturday school
Home-School Partnership – parents meet in language groups
Celebrate Achievement – celebrate wins for us
1. Advantages
2. Opportunities
3. Challenges
Reconfiguration of schools ?
Can clarify the vision
Evaluate all the influences
Leadership dialogue from years 1 to 13
Teacher professional dialogue
Try to overcome barriers:
Low decile funding relative to comparative disadvantage
Discontinuity National standards/Y9 and 10/ NCEA
Advantages
Facilities ?
School Culture
Academic Structures &
Processes
People
School Leadership
Student Learning
Outcomes
Values and Beliefs
Knowledge and Experience
P Hallinger and R. Heck 2011
CONTEXT
CONTEXT
A Model of Leadership for Learning
Improved teacher buy-in
Success breeds success
Employ teachers on the same wave length
Constitution
Executive/Business Support
Southern Cross Campus Foundation
Opportunities
School Level
School size
Student composition
Teacher Quality
Instructional Structure
Community influences
Understand the Context
Home ?
Teachers ?
Leadership Incl. BOT
?
City Context
?
It’s a Battle for the Hearts Create a Belief Profile?
Students ?
Investment needed to provide the ability to reorganise – HR
Develop and get the right attitude
Consistency over next ten years
Must Drive in the Same Direction
It takes 10 years
Leadership structure
Sustained capacity
Governance structure
Sustained capacity
Ministry of Education
Politicians want to be with a winner
Challenges
Its about belief:
That all sections of the escalator are effective from
YEAR 1
Teachers
Home
Students
You get what you deserve
It starts at year 1
Belief
Measurement of success for ourselves
Curriculum loss is quickest here and hardest to get back!
Year 13!
