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Secondary Principals' Council
The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer - summary
(2009) Summary of The New Zealand principal's experience of the school board as employer: Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation. Author: Carol Anderson.
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer - appendices
(2009) Appendices to the New Zealand principal's experience of the school board as employer: Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation,
Author: Carol Anderson
Author: Carol Anderson
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The New Zealand principal’s experience of the school board as employer
(2009) Survey report to NZ Secondary Principals Council and New Zealand Principals Federation. Author: Carol Anderson
This survey sought principals' observations of the way in which the board-principal employment relationship…
This survey sought principals' observations of the way in which the board-principal employment relationship…
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Teacher disciplinary procedures - presentation to NZSPC
(2010) Presentation to Secondary principals' council on teacher disciplinary procedures. Presentation refers to legislation, standards and the process.
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EDUCANZ: the current state of play (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper provides a report of PPTA's actions opposing the government's scrapping of the Teachers Council and replacing it with a non-representative and overtly political…
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Middle leadership in crisis (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines work PPTA's middle leadership taskforce has done in its inaugural year to clarify the important role middle leaders play in curriculum delivery and…
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Initial teacher education in change: But is it for the better? (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper examines the impact of new models of initial teacher education (ITE) that make greater demands on schools. It considers the effects on teacher workload…
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The middle leadership problem (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper updates members on continued work by the Middle Leadership Taskforce since their report to Annual Conference 2015. It includes a summary of findings from…
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From the top corridor to the back field: supporting senior leaders to lead effective change (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. Senior leaders in secondary schools make a big difference to how well schools function, in particular when it comes to implementing change. They have a significant…
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Teachers in the precariat: fixed-term contracts and the effect on establishing teachers (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper from the Auckland Region and the PPTA Establishing Teachers’ Committee. This paper addresses the insecure work faced by new and establishing teachers through the use…
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Draft Principles for Partnerships between secondary schools and initial teacher education (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper responds to the call by annual conference 2015 for a working party to be convened to develop a code of practice for managing partnerships…
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Establishment of a PPTA Men’s Network (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. This paper is in response to a recommendation from the 2015 PPTA annual conference that PPTA investigate the establishment of a men’s network. The paper notes…
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Letter to Tertiary Education Institutions regarding charter schools
(28 February 2017) Tena koe
I am writing to you about the recent change to the Education Act which allows tertiary education institutions to run 'partnership schools' (or charter schools as…
I am writing to you about the recent change to the Education Act which allows tertiary education institutions to run 'partnership schools' (or charter schools as…
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Guidelines for the appointment to Community Teacher (across community) role in Area Schools
(2016) These guidelines provide advice about the Community Teacher (across community) role, and are agreed by the Ministry of Education, PPTA Te Wehengarua, NZEI and NZSTA.
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Guidelines for the appointment of Community Teacher (within school) role in Area Schools
(2016) These guidelines provide advice about the Community Teacher (within school) role in approved Communities of Schools or Communities of Learning, and have been agreed by the Ministry of Education,…
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2017 PPTA News February-March (vol.38 no.1)
The cost of change for change's sake - President's viewpoint p.3;
Bulk funding - gone by morning tea time p.4;
Introducing the new faces of PPTA p.5;
Excessive teacher workload is hurting…
Bulk funding - gone by morning tea time p.4;
Introducing the new faces of PPTA p.5;
Excessive teacher workload is hurting…
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2017 Ngā Manu Kōrero speech topics
Ngā Manu Kōrero topics Māori and English
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Ngā Manu Kōrero 2017 National Secondary School Speech Contests (judging sheets)
(March 2017)
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Secondary Principals' Council meeting notes March 2017
(5 April 207) Notes of the Secondary Principals' Council meeting held 21 - 22 March 2017 in Wellington.
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Letter to MPs - Education Amendment Bill (No. 2) Education Council
(2014) Letter from the PPTA President to Members of Parliament on the concerns of the teaching profession about the proposal to create the Education Council.
Extracted from PPTA News Nov/Dec 2014.
Extracted from PPTA News Nov/Dec 2014.
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Education Council plans to massively increase fees - Background
(10 April 2017) The Education Council have announced that they are consulting on raising their fees. For example, the practising certificate renewal would go from $220 to $510 per…
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Social class and educational achievement: Beyond ideology (Snook, I)
(October 2009) Discussions of “league tables” of NCEA results in secondary schools and the proposed “national standards” in primary schools have drawn attention once again to what is often called…
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Bulk funding: a retrospective (2002)
(2002) Paper presented at the 2002 Education International Conference (New Zealand).
PPTA Te Wehengarua has been fighting bulk funding since 1989. This paper examines the various manifestations of bulk funding (the…
PPTA Te Wehengarua has been fighting bulk funding since 1989. This paper examines the various manifestations of bulk funding (the…
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Charter schools public survey results (2013)
(May 2013) PPTA survey of the NZ public 18 years and over: Charter schools results.
Survey conducted by MM Research
Survey conducted by MM Research
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Draft Code of Professional Responsibility and Standards for the Teaching Profession: Submission April 2017
(April 2017) Submission to the Education Council on the Draft Code of Professional Responsibility and Standards for the Teaching Profession.... The Standards Working Group talked at length about how these…
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