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Ready for partnership? A tool for creating written and visual texts in Aotearoa New Zealand

Use this guide Ready for Partnership? to help create written or visual texts that welcome ākonga Māori.

Ready for Partnership? has two sections.

Section 1 provides seven lenses that focus on how we’re using various Māori cultural perspectives when creating texts

Section 2 presents some annotated examples which show how the tool may be used.

Kōkirihia Wānanga Rangatahi Support for Kaiako

Guide

Kōkirihia is a call to action to end streaming practices in Aotearoa by 2030. This framework is used to raise awareness, consider alternatives and put actions in place to support the achievement of all ākonga.

This video shares rangatahi voice from the Grow Waitaha Kōkirihia Wānanga Rangatahi as they consider the impacts of streaming on themselves and their peers.

As you watch the video, think about the rangatahi at your school and how streaming has affected them.

Engage with the reflective questions for individual teachers, staff or departments.

Ngā Pou

Guide

Strengthen collaboration and learning opportunities with our tailored overview of Grow Waitaha resources.

Empowering Gender Diverse Ākonga: for schools and leaders

Infographic (PDF, 1 page, 77KB)

Schools have, or will have, gender-diverse ākonga. Creating inclusive learning spaces will result in better outcomes for these ākonga, helping them feel safe
to be their authentic selves.

Download this infographic which summarises actions schools can take to foster inclusive learning environments for gender-diverse ākonga.

Inclusion of Gender-Diverse Ākonga - Recommendations for Schools

Guide

This document outlines areas in which schools can actively foster more inclusive learning environments for gender-diverse ākonga, recognising the roles that Boards of Trustees and school governance play in making education inclusive for diverse people.

Transitions to school in a hybrid world infographic

Poster (PDF, 1 pg., 113 KB)

How might we as leaders and kaiako strengthen transitions to school in a hybrid world?
In a hybrid world, we need to be increasingly responsive and proactive.
At Grow Waitaha, we see an opportunity to rethink the way we support children to transition to school.

Download this resource to reflect on your transition to school process.

Transitions to school in a hybrid world planning guide

Planning guide (PDF, 1 pg., 222 KB)

Download this planning guide for your team to have a conversation together. The actions may prompt reflection and encourage change to your transitions to school process.

This is not a “to do” list, but we hope these suggestions might:
• resonate with you
• help you solve a problem
• inspire you to try something different.

Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto and Ferndale School – Effective inclusive education partners

Article

In 2017, Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto and Ferndale School celebrated the opening of new satellite provision spaces. This article describes how the schools have become effective inclusive education partners.

CPPA Conference 2021 Resource

CPPA

The resource supports rangatira to undertake multiple processes to highlight the needs in their context and how they can respond to these through collaboration. They are focused on 3 areas:
Futures - Future Triangles, signals of change, reflection spider graph
Inclusion - Collecting the practice of the CPPA, linking that to wider frameworks
Wellbeing - Lessons from lockdown, crowdsourcing tips, self-reflection

Knights Stream School – Looking to the past to shape the future

Article

Find out how the vision and cultural narrative of Knights Stream School has been shaped by the history and stories of the land on which the school stands.

Planning innovative learning environments

Guide

This guide from the Inclusive Education website provides strategies and suggestions for developing innovative learning environments (ILEs) that work for all learners. It focuses on supporting schools who are planning a new build or building modifications.

Home school partnerships

Website

This section of Enabling eLearning supports engagement between parents, families, and schools with a focus on the use of technologies.

Community engagement on NZC Online

Website

This section draws together research, digital resources, and examples to support schools as they consider the community engagement principle.

Partnering with parents, whānau, and communities

Guide

This Inclusive Education guide provides stories, resources, and research to support schools to develop and strengthen effective partnerships with parents, whānau, and communities.

Partners in Learning

Report

This booklet helps parents, families, and whānau to form effective relationships and educationally powerful connections.

Using social media to connect with your community

Guide

This section of Enabling eLearning offers schools starting points for using social media with their communities. Social networking (like Facebook and Twitter) embraces web-based and mobile-based technologies to enable interactive communication between organisations, communities, and individuals.

Building genuine learning partnerships with parents

Report (online PDF)

This report discusses strategies and approaches from schools that have contributed to improving achievement by developing genuine learning partnerships with parents. This report also includes some simple strategies a few of the schools used to involve parents more in supporting the things children were learning at school.

Paparoa Street School – An innovative approach to reimagining teaching and learning

Article

This Grow Waitaha article explains how Paparoa Street School has worked with students, whānau, staff, and the community to re-vision their shared purpose for teaching and learning. Principal Pene Abbie shares the journey they have been on, which has included the use of design hacks and the launch of the Festival of the Future.

St Marks – Working with Mātauraka Mahaanui

Article

This Grow Waitaha article describes how St Marks School worked closely with Mātauraka Mahaanui to develop culturally sustainable practices and bring their cultural narrative to life.

South Hornby School – Master planning journey

Article

Simon Moriarty, principal of South Hornby School – Te Manu Tukutuku, shares his school’s experiences as they relocated to a newly built school on a new site.

Sumner School – Master planning journey

Article

Stuart Cameron, principal of Sumner School, shares his school’s experiences through the master planning and design phases of their property development.

Whose voices help to shape your local curriculum?

Blog

This blog provides ideas, questions, tools, and examples to help you design a local curriculum that reflects what is important to your community.

NZC spotlight – Learner agency

Presentation

This spotlight explores learner agency and offers strategies to help you build greater student agency in your own classrooms. It includes short videos, group activities, and opportunities for personal reflection.

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and card set

Tool (online PDF)

The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) and card set supports schools on a journey of transformational change and identifies aspects of practice which can enable the innovation of teaching and learning. Perspectives and partnerships is one of the nine principles of the MEF.