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Secondary Principals' Council
Housing affordability (2008)
A paper to the 2008 PPTA Annual Conference from the Auckland Region
It is suggested that an inter-regional taskforce is established to consider the impact of housing process across the country,…
It is suggested that an inter-regional taskforce is established to consider the impact of housing process across the country,…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Guidelines for negotiating a compensatory mechanism for reasonable endeavour (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper from the Canterbury Region. Recommendations: That a clear process in the form of guidelines be negotiated in the 2018 STCA round to ensure branches have a…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
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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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
From islands to archipelagos: developing secondary school leadership (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. Leadership matters. Education policy-makers and researchers agree that educational leadership can make a positive difference to teaching practices, school cultures, and learning outcomes for students.…
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August 17, 2020
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Flexible Learning Spaces: an experiment on our education system (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines some of the issues with the current move to build and rebuild schools as flexible learning spaces. The lack of evidence from research…
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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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August 17, 2020
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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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August 17, 2020
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Duty outside timetabled hours (2009)
2009 Annual conference paper. Teachers feel a tension between their supervisory and administrative duties, on one hand, and on the other the broader professional drive to effectively engage with…
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17/50/2020
Duty (2008)
2008 Annual conference paper. The 2002, 2004 and 2007 settlements provided for compensatory mechanisms to reduce workload in some areas when, for genuine reasons, teachers were to be asked…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
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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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Disruptive anti-social behaviour in secondary schools (2008)
A paper to the 2008 PPTA Annual Conference from the Hutt Valley Region
The Hutt Valley region presents this paper to National Conference 2008 to draw attention to the increasing incidence…
The Hutt Valley region presents this paper to National Conference 2008 to draw attention to the increasing incidence…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
Demolition-or-restoration-The-election-and-our-fight-for-the-Teachers-Council-v2.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/26/2022
Day relief teachers - Victims of casualisation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines the issues faced by day relief teachers, including their terms of employment, their difficulties in gaining a school’s agreement to act as lead…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Constitutional Amendments (2018)
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August 17, 2020
17/52/2020
Consolidated-Financial-Statements-yr-end-31-Mar-2022.pdf
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September 21, 2022
21/15/2022
Connected secondary schools (2009)
2009 Annual conference paper. In 2007, PPTA annual conference discussed a paper that presented a vision for what secondary education should look like in the future. The paper set down…
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August 17, 2020
17/50/2020
CONFERENCE-PAPERS-BOOKLET-2014-as-at-17Sep-version-for-printing.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/26/2022
Communities of learning: the slippage between planning and implementation (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper considers the expectations underlying the implementation of Communities of Learning and the experience of implementation in practice. It finds a gap between the two…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Charter schools: an update (2015)
2015 Annual conference paper. This paper examines the extent of the failure of the charter school experiment to provide an improved alternative to the public education system in New Zealand.
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Careers services in danger (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This paper highlights a number of current threats to the provision of adequate careers services in secondary schools, caused by the absorption of Careers New Zealand…
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August 17, 2020
17/51/2020
Career Pathways - Subject Pedagogy Specialists (2018)
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Building on excellence: How to make a great schooling system even better (2010)
2010 Annual conference paper. This paper challenges the validity of government claims about low achievement and inequity, and suggests that the government goal that all students be able to experience…
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August 17, 2020
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Better leading for better learning: Report of the middle leadership taskforce. (2017)
2017 Annual conference paper. This report is the final in a series of reports and papers by PPTA’s Middle Leadership Taskforce. It summarises the issues for middle leadership, and…
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August 17, 2020
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Behaviour-behaviour-behaviour-Its-a-class-act-August-7.docx
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July 29, 2022
29/27/2022
Auckland Name Change (2018)
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August 17, 2020
17/52/2020