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Secondary Principals' Council
NCEA the work continues (2006)
2006 Annual conference paper. PPTA’s consistent position is that the union is opposed to substantial change to the design of the NCEA without extensive consultation with teachers and robust research.
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
NCEA: A pathway to the future (2008)
2008 Annual conference 2008. This paper is largely a forward-looking paper, seeking to identify possible ways forward in terms largely of the design of the NCEA. The fact that the…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
NCEA: Nothing endures but change... (2007)
2007 Annual conference paper. PPTA representatives will continue to use every opportunity to warn of the dangers inherent in some of the recent changes, to seek to have them implemented…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Needs-based staffing for secondary schools (2008)
2008 Annual conference paper. We have a staffing model that creates large classes as a by-product and does not recognise different needs in schools, and that is structured to…
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August 17, 2020
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No silver bullet: An update on issues relating to behaviour and engagement ...(2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. An update on issues relating to behaviour and engagement in secondary schools. In spite of the pressure from PPTA and a growing public concern that…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Once more into the breach... PPTA industrial stragegy for 2018 - and beyond (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper investigates the economic, political and industrial environment for the 2018-2019 bargaining round, and outlines an industrial strategy, including a claims process, for that round.…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
PPR_A-Needs-Based-Staffing-Model-v2.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/11/2022
PPR_A-policy-to-end-streaming-in-Aotearoa-v3.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/17/2022
PPR_A-step-towards-Needs-Based-Resourcing-the-Equity-Index-v2.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/12/2022
PPR_Initial-Teacher-Education-is-it-fit-for-purpose-v2.pdf
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July 12, 2023
12/4/2023
PPR_To-Everyone-A-Home-a-TM-Auck-regional-paper-v3.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/22/2022
PPR_Update-the-PLD-we-need-v2.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/13/2022
PPR_Updates-on-the-NCEA-Change-Package-and-more-v2.pdf
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October 5, 2022
5/20/2022
PPTA Signed Financial Statements 2018
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August 17, 2020
17/52/2020
Private profiteering or public private partnerships (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. In 2005, an Annual Conference paper was prepared by Executive called 'Threats to New Zealand's public education system.' That paper signalled a number of threats that…
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August 17, 2020
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Professional Learners (2018)
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August 17, 2020
17/52/2020
Programme-for DLD and I&O
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March 1, 2022
1/46/2022
Real equity funding: resourcing schools to support at risk learners (2016)
2016 Annual conference paper. The current resourcing review is an opportunity to improve the way our schools are funded. We know that we have a challenge in New Zealand with…
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August 17, 2020
17/48/2020
Relief Teaching
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February 17, 2022
17/47/2022
Report-progress-of-recs-of-2013-Waikato-paper_A-Hierarchy-of-Inequiality-The-Decile-Divide.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/26/2022
Report-to-Conference-Delegates-on-Executive-and-Presidential-Electoral-Processes.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/25/2022
School-Zoning-References-Used.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/25/2022
Secondary teaching into future (2007)
2007 Annual conference paper. This paper seeks to set out the union’s preferred future for secondary education. It describes a set of principles against which the union would judge…
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August 17, 2020
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Teachers Council: Government patsy or voice of the profession? (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. Many PPTA members were enraged this year when the Teachers Council announced that fees to renew teachers' practising certificates would nearly double from 1 July. The…
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August 17, 2020
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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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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020