Creating opportunities to strengthen teaching practice and educational leadership to support learners to realise their aspirations.

Talk to us about how we can support you in the Ministry priority areas.

The last six months have seen many changes on the Ministry PLD front. We expect to see this continuing in the foreseeable future.
Going forward the focus will continue to be:

1. Structured literacy
2. Assessment for learning and aromatowai,
3. Mathematics curriculum and
4. the revised curriculum areas as they roll out

The Minister of Education has outlined 6 priorities to improve the education system.

The following priorities will require work programmes to assist schools and kura. So we can collectively support all students to achieve. These include:

1. Teachers and schools are supported by a detailed, knowledge-rich curriculum and will know what needs to be taught and when.
2. All students will be learning literacy and mathematics in a way that evidence tells us best supports students to learn.
3. Targeted effective learning support.
4. Better use of data, assessment, and evidence to identify and invest in supports and services that work.

EDconnect are Ministry approved SELO providers

SELO (Strengthening Early Learning Opportunities for children, whānau, families and communities) is a professional development programme to support early learning services. We work with management and teachers/educators to support a shift in practice towards high quality management, teaching and learning. EDconnect provides support for both programmes:

Professional growth and learning for leaders.

Coaching and external facilitation provide support, learning and challenge to enable leader’s insight into and beyond the leadership decisions they make. In this way Appraisal as Professional Growth and Learning raises awareness of the decisions made and the acts of leadership that principals and leaders engage in daily.

The concept of ‘appraisal as learning’ raises awareness of leaders’ daily decisions and acts of leadership. We offer coaching that supports and challenges leaders to develop insight into and beyond the leadership decisions they make.

Dialogue, documentation, observation, and questioning are all important sources of information that form part of the growth cycle process. This information guides leaders in reflecting and inquiring into the effectiveness of their practice. In this way leaders are supported to grow in their relational leadership, with the aim of being intentional with deliberate acts of leadership that create opportunities to achieve their learning and performance goals.

Changing the leadership view 

Principals are ‘Educational Leaders‘ who lead in contexts where relationships are critical to the success of their educational purpose, leadership, teaching, learning, curriculum and assessment. In addition, Educational Leaders lead within a deepening appreciation of the complexity of their everyday experiences; an ‘inside-out’ perspective.

As outsiders, we engage with Educational Leaders and their immediate contexts from an ‘outside-in’ perspective; observing, learning, discussing, discerning and engaging with the leader’s priorities for the ongoing development of their staff and the organisation.

Responsive to the needs of participants and their schools. 

This forward-thinking, personalised professional learning is thoughtfully and intentionally designed to inspire leadership competencies, encourage effective instructional practice, and support fluency with strategies for learner success.

Delivery is in small group settings, highly interactive, and responsive to the needs of the participants and their schools.