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								Guidelines for the Appointment of Area School Principals to the Community Leadership role  
							
						
						
						
							
								Area School Principals Collective Agreement (ASPCA) Community Leadership Role Guidelines
The establishment of the role follows the advice of the Sector Working Party established as part of the Investing in Educational…
					
					The establishment of the role follows the advice of the Sector Working Party established as part of the Investing in Educational…
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								The School Guidance Counsellor: Guidelines for Principals, Boards of Trustees, Teachers and Guidance Counsellors
							
						
						
						
							
								(2015) Guidance counsellors have traditionally been trained and registered teachers who have additional specialist qualifications in counselling.   Guidance counselling has always been regarded as a specialist teaching role,…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Managing employment law issues in schools (Barbara Hill, 2009)
							
						
						
						
							
								Managing employment law issues in schools is becoming an increasingly demanding responsibility in an era of high expectations of accountability placed on boards of trustees and teachers by successive governments…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Developing a performance agreement and professional learning plan (PLP) checklist 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Developing a performance agreement and professional learning plan (PLP) checklist and questions.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principals’ career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example A
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example A
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Professional learning plan (PLP) template for principals 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Template: Professional learning plan (PLP) for principals
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example B 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example B
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example C 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Job description, example C.
An integrated special character school, and this includes a performance agreement with the job description
					
					An integrated special character school, and this includes a performance agreement with the job description
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								Practising Teacher Criteria (PTC) cross referenced with the professional standards for principals 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Practising/Registered Teacher Criteria (RTC) cross referenced with the professional standards for principals (to be updated)
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principals' career & appraisal toolkit - Sample performance agreement 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) Sample performance agreement. Appendix B of NZSPC advice to principals' regarding performance appraisal.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principal appraisal - a checklist for principals 
							
						
						
						
							
								(June 2011) The checklist and questions might be helpful for principals to consider as they go through the process of appraisal which commences with the establishment of the board's policy…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								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,
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					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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								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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								NZSPC / SPANZ survey of principals on secondary teacher supply August 2017
							
						
						
						
							
								(August 2017) Most principals are reporting that they already have problems in their schools created by teacher shortages and a majority expect the staffing problems to get worse. Again, a…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								NZSPC / SPANZ survey of principals on secondary teacher shortages November 2017
							
						
						
						
							
								(November 2017) Currently there are indicated to be around 570 positions that secondary schools have not been able to fill with external appointments.
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					The New Zealand Secondary Principals Council (SPC) of…
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								STCA 2018 newsletter insert
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								Principals' Performance Appraisal (July 2018)
							
						
						
						
							
								This document provides guidance on the process boards of trustees should follow in conducting the annual performance appraisal of principals.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								2018-11-28 SPC SPANZ report
							
						
						
						
							
								The survey was an online questionnaire and this was open from 29 October 2018 to 9 November 2018.
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					This report summarises the responses to the survey nationally, in major metropolitan regions…
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								SPC nomination form 2019-2020
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								Why sign up to the Promise to New Teachers 
							
						
						
						
							
								Why we should sign up to the Promise to new teachers: giving new teachers a the support they need at the start of their careers
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								SPC_How-we-work-with-you.pdf
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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								New-Zealand-Secondary-School-Principal-Occupational-Health-Safety-and-Wellbeing-2021.pdf
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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