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								Its About Time (Handbook)
							
						
						
						
							
								Handbook to timetabling, non-contact time and class-size provisions in the Secondary Teachers' Collective Agreement (STCA)
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								March 19, 2025
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								STCA Part 5 Hours of work: It's About Time toolkit Appendix 3
							
						
						
						
							
								Secondary Teachers Collective Agreement (STCA) Part Five Hours of Work
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								August 14, 2024
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								Some PPTA policies related to timetable policies: About Time toolkit 
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 8.  The ‘trained and qualified policy’ - all teachers should hold a tertiary level qualification appropriate to the position, and have completed teacher training. An extension of this…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								A policy development or review process: About Time toolkit
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 7.  The following steps should assist in situations where a school either has no timetabling policy – or it is undergoing a review.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Developing further policy components: About Time toolkit 
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 5 of toolkit.  Schools have developed different frameworks to deliver student learning programmes. Most, because of limited school resourcing and facilities, and community needs and expectations, are variations…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								The timetabling policy: About Time toolkit
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 4. The requirement that a school must have a timetabling policy and are required to consult with its teaching staff over its timetabling policy was first introduced in 2001-02…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								The resourcing constraints of timetabling: About Time toolkit
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 3. Ideally a school’s timetable would be driven entirely by students’ learning needs but the reality is that it is necessarily limited by the resourcing and facilities available.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Timetabling Framework: About Time toolkit 
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 2 . The prerequisites on schools in terms of timetabling arise from legislation and the collective agreements and are longstanding and well understood. New constraints or requirements can arise…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Branch Audits: About Time toolkit Appendix 1
							
						
						
						
							
								Branch audit process on timetabling, for schools covered by the Secondary School Teachers' Collective Agreement (STCA) and the Area School Teachers' Collective Agreement (ASTCA)
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								July 15, 2024
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								Stages of Timetabling: About Time toolkit 
							
						
						
						
							
								Section 6 . The timetable should not be the responsibility of one or two teachers working in isolation. While the process of setting up an option grid and allocating learning…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								July 15, 2024
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								Sample timetable policy (Area School): About Time toolkit Appendix 9
							
						
						
						
							
								A sample policy which branches and management could use as a framework for developing or adapting their school policy. ASTCA
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								July 15, 2024
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								Timetable policy (Secondary): About Time toolkit Appendix 8 
							
						
						
						
							
								A sample policy that branches and management could use as a framework for developing or adapting their school policy. (STCA)
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								July 15, 2024
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								Part-time teachers non-contact: About Time toolkit Appendix 7
							
						
						
						
							
								A Part time teacher may not be employed for more than 0.89 FTTE (22.25 hours per week); and no part time teachers can be used for more than for more…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Meeting Procedures
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								February 28, 2024
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								Education change management toolkit
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								Join PPTA flyer
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								September 5, 2022
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								Member-response-to-call-to-take-RATS-and-return.docx
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								March 10, 2022
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								Letter-for-Branch-Chair-to-Principal-over-exemptions-DRAFT.docx
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								March 10, 2022
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								Letter-for-Branch-Chair-to-Principal-over-exemptions-DRAFT.docx
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								March 10, 2022
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								Addressing the housing crisis in New Zealand
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								February 17, 2022
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								New Teachers' Handbook 
							
						
						
						
							
								(2019)  The  beginning and new teachers' handbook is a quick reference for new and beginning teachers in New Zealand secondary schools.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								March 22, 2021
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								MoE Decision tool for schools responses to Covid 19
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								August 17, 2020
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								2020 Health and Safety leaflet
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								August 17, 2020
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								Principals performance appraisal 
							
						
						
						
							
								This document provides guidance on the process boards of trustees should follow in conducting the annual performance appraisal of principals.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								August 17, 2020
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								Professional learning and development (PLD) toolkit
							
						
						
						
							
								(2011) A toolkit comprising information and an audit process that can be used to support improved practices and outcomes for teachers and learners in New Zealand secondary and area schools.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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