Educational Leadership
Strengthening leadership capabilities for current and future school leaders.
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Our Professional
Learning Offerings
Our team is dedicated to empowering school leaders as they pursue excellent and equitable outcomes for their students. Through research-informed and highly practical leadership development offerings, we work to affirm, challenge and enhance the skills and knowledge of school leaders at all career stages. To find out more, email lc.leadership@auckland.ac.nz.
Aotearoa New Zealand
- Providing engaging, research-informed leadership development opportunities for leaders at all career stages - middle, senior, principal, and system leadership.
- Offering high quality, bespoke leadership learning to individuals and school leadership teams.
- Working in partnership with Kāhui Ako to meet their community’s unique leadership development challenges.
- Empowering leaders to build relationships while doing the work required to achieve excellent and equitable outcomes for all students.
- Providing flexible and engaging modes of learning - face to face, online and blended.
- Equipping school leaders with the skills and knowledge required to effectively lead improvement in their context.
Around the world
- Designing and delivering bespoke leadership development offerings to gain excellent and equitable outcomes for all students.
- Offering high quality leadership learning to individuals and school leadership teams.
- Equipping school leaders with the skills and knowledge required to effectively lead improvement in their context.
- Providing flexible and engaging modes of learning - face toface, online and blended.
- Working in partnership with education authorities to meet their system’s contextually unique leadership development challenges.
- Enhancing the leadership capabilities and understandings of senior school and system leaders.
- Supporting the career development of teachers and leaders at all stages of their professional life.
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Discover your development pathway
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The Mana Model: Creating learning environments that foster the innate mana of ākonga
Build and enhance the cultural capability of leaders and teachers in your school, kura or early childhood centre to create learning environments that foster Māori students' success.
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School-wide Assessment Capability & Data Literacy
Do you want to strengthen the assessment capability and data literacy of your leadership team? This opportunity is Ministry funded and free to schools applying through Regionally-Allocated PLD for Term 2 2024.
Enabling & empowering school leaders
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Culturally Sustaining Practices
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Grow educators' and leaders' capability to create culturally sustaining and inclusive education environments.
Inspire educators and leaders to prioritise the commitment to language, culture, and identity.
Support educators and leaders to work alongside whānau, iwi and hapū as they give practical effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te reo Māori me ōna tikanga, and mātauranga Māori.
Professional & Pedagogical Practice
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Grow educators and leaders to use curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in ways that lead to excellent and equitable student outcomes.
Inspire educators and leaders to establish a long-term vision and strategic planning to bring out the best in learners, whānau, communities and educators.
Support educators and leaders to be relational, reflective, confident, evidence-based, practitioners.
Inclusive, Equitable & Ethical Practice
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Grow educators' and leaders' capacity to develop learning environments that enable every learner to reach their full potential including the most vulnerable members of our community.
Inspire educators and leaders to provide an educational setting that supports young people and their whānau to have choices that reflect their needs and aspirations.
Support educators' and leaders' moral purpose and ability to act ethically in the service of others.
Connecting with Learners, Whānau & Communities
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Grow educators' and leaders' capacity to connect with and serve their communities and grow inclusive, supportive school cultures.
Inspire educators and leaders to engage learners, whānau, colleagues and communities to build productive, reciprocal relationships and collaborative ways of working.
Support learners, educators and leaders to develop reach and impact beyond their local experience, through nationwide and global connections.
Hauora
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Grow educators' and leaders' capacity to develop environments where everyone can thrive.
Inspire educators and leaders to promote wellbeing practices.
Support educators and leaders to reflect and take action on one's own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.
Personal & Continuous Improvement
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Grow educators and leaders to understand and refine their own beliefs, values, and leadership approaches to improve education outcomes.
Inspire cycles of professional inquiry and evaluation.
Support educators and leaders to share their experience as lifelong learners, mentor others and work across schools to develop the next generation of leaders, and uplift the growing number of Māori and Pasifika leaders in education.
Operational Effectiveness
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Grow educators and leaders to understand and refine their own beliefs, values, and leadership approaches to improve education outcomes.
Inspire cycles of professional inquiry and evaluation.
Support educators and leaders to share their experience as lifelong learners, mentor others and work across schools to develop the next generation of leaders, and uplift the growing number of Māori and Pasifika leaders in education.
Our Principles
Our work is informed by rigorous educational leadership research and the practical experience of our team of researchers, past principals, and senior leaders. We are committed to improving student outcomes through building leadership expertise.
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Leadership is Evidence-Based
Our work is rigorous and defensible. It focuses on valued educational outcomes and the conditions and practices most likely to impact positively on learning and the success of students.
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Leadership is Adaptive and Contextual
Our work is underpinned by the notion of the Leader as an ‘Adaptive Expert’. Such leadership embraces broad capability so that it can be brought to bear in an agile manner that embraces context and complexity.
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Leadership is Transformative and Student Centred
We strive for educational leadership that is student-centred and responsive to the wider social context within which it is embedded.
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Leadership is Embracing of Culture
We grow leaders' understanding of the breadth of worldviews within the communities they lead; understanding, validating, and growing leadership that is culturally sustaining is central to leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Leadership Deploys Educational Expertise
We place an emphasis on educational leadership that strengthens valued student educational outcomes. We focus on professional learning that is most influential in creating the conditions, systems, relationships, and practices necessary for students to flourish.
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Leadership is Service
We recognise the importance of leaders in meeting the needs and aspirations of ākonga and their whānau. An attitude of service and partnership informs the position of a leader who leads with a moral purpose.
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Leadership is Collaborative
We recognise that school leadership is too complex for any one person. Effective leadership requires a team approach; one that builds trust, shares power, and creates a sense of shared purpose, with the intention of gaining improved student outcomes.
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Leadership is Authentic and Personal
Making meaning is personal. Leadership is therefore significantly influenced by factors unique to the individual. Recognising, validating, and growing a leader’s identity, values, personal knowledge, and unique capabilities are key drivers to enabling authentic, effective, fulfilling, and impactful leadership.
Our latest mahi
Explore our evidence-based development opportunities, success stories, and transformative insights that can empower your leadership journey.
We recently welcomed MSU's esteemed academics on their journey of discovery through our unique educational landscape. We designed an engaging week-long tour packed with insights into the research and theory underpinning our curriculum frameworks, with a focus on literacy, educational leadership, and Māori & Pacific-led initiatives. Our guests also visited schools and experienced the beauty of Te Tai Tokerau Northland's iconic attractions!
If you would like to organise a bespoke study tour experience for your team, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Take your team's leadership to the next level. Learn more about our research-informed approach to school improvement leadership for international partners!
This suite of professional learning is designed to give Principals the opportunity to learn from a diverse range of experts, connect and learn from peers and embed sustainable wellbeing practices.
Learn moreHear what Peninsula Primary had to say about how our Growing Great Leaders™ workshop positively influenced their leadership team.
Learn moreLearning Schools is an approach to improve valued student learning outcomes by working in partnership with schools. Learn more by accessing our brochure below!
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Our People
Our passionate and experienced kaiwhakaruruhau facilitators are dedicated to delivering world class PLD for schools across New Zealand, the Pacific, Australia and internationally. They are supported by our Senior Leadership Team.
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Making an impact
Hear from educators whose practice have been positively impacted by our innovative approach to learning and professional development.
Seeking something specific?
Reach out and let's make it happen
We can create bespoke course offerings to suit you and your school or kura's needs. Get in touch with us today so we can tailor our approach in helping you and your learning community!
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