Leading for Excellence
Te Whai Toi Tangata offers a range of exciting opportunities for leaders to examine and explore their practice.
Professional leadership is absolutely critical to drive success in learning. The demands on principals, tumuaki and school leaders are significant and complex.
Leadership in English medium schools
We offer a wide range of support for school leaders in English medium schools including:
- development of middle and senior leaders
- culturally responsive and inclusive leadership
- alignment of assessment, planning, recording and self-review systems
- developing coherence to accelerate learner outcomes
- effective strategic planning based on needs and strengths analysis
- performance management systems driven by professional inquiry into practice
- solutions and strategies to meet needs of priority groups of students
Contact David Bradford.
Leadership in Māori and dual medium settings
We can work with tumuaki, senior leaders, boards of trustees and whānau whakahaere in kura Māori to:
- build leadership capability specific to Māori medium settings
- focus teaching policies and practices to meet the needs of ākonga
- foster positive relationships with and beyond the learning community, inclusive of whānau, hapū and iwi
- implement quality management systems to meet with strategic and compliance requirements
- provide moral and emotional leadership support when working with new leaders
- support senior and middle leaders in their leadership roles
- clarify key management responsibilities such as financial, personnel and property.
Contact Marama Reweti-Martin
Appraisals
Our leadership facilitators can assist with appraisals based on an inquiry minded approach. Inquiry is “.. a process of systematic, rigorous and critical reflection about professional practice… its purpose is to inform decision-making for action… [and] can be undertaken individually, but it is most powerful when it is collaborative.” (Reid, 2004)
This model of principal appraisal is based on the notion of inquiry and reflection into the deliberate acts of leadership that are required by principals and leaders to effect significant change in student progress, success and achievement. This is negotiated as an “appraisal as learning” process.
Contact Marama Reweti-Martin
Critical Friend and Professional Learning Groups for School Leaders
Our leadership facilitators can also act as a critical friend who would challenge and support your development as a principal. This could meet learning goals in your performance agreement, and be a part of informing and interrogating your leadership inquiry. This is available face to face, online or a mix of both.
Professional Learning Groups, or PLGs, are about partnerships and communities of lead learners across and within schools. One of our leadership facilitators (or a current leader from the sector) supports the PLG and provides material to stimulate discussions and encourage critiquing of each participant’s practice.
