Learning Schools

Tui Tuia’s Educational Leadership has a team of experts who can work in partnership with you and the Te Pūtahi | Woolf Fisher Research Centre to co-design for improvement in School-wide Assessment Capability for Leadership Teams based on the Learning Schools Model approach.

Co-design can mean tailoring an existing approach to your school or designing a new approach. The partnership is based on the principles of ‘rigour with respect’.  There is rigour in the analysis and interrogation of data, the PLD design, and the associated changes to teaching and learning, with respect for the context and expertise that exists within schools.

In 2024 the intake is focused on School-wide Assessment Capability for Leadership Teams.  

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What your school/Kāhui Ako will gain:

• Ability to set-up or evaluate your school-wide assessment system with rigour.
• School-wide assessment plans and tools that are reliable and valid in their assessment design and conditions.  
• Knowledge of standardised assessments - the pros, cons, limitations and opportunities.
• Understanding what constitutes progress and acceleration and how best to assess these.
• Design of appropriate test conditions.
• Exploration of the  role of standards and benchmarking.
• Understanding summative and formative assessment.
• Linking assessment purpose to curriculum goals.
• Using data insights to make change.
• The role of evaluation and driving for improved outcomes for students.

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Download the brochure here.

Your commitment:

This is a bespoke engagement which typically runs for 12 months and generally involves:

• Up to six engagement meetings with SLT  
• Several meetings with relevant teachers and leaders

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Utilising RAPLD, this mahi is free to schools or Kāhui Ako within the greater Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland area. We can work with you to shape up your Writing challenge and support you to submit your application.

Reference

Lai, Mei Kuin, McNaughton, Stuart, Jesson, Rebecca,& Wilson, Aaron. (2020). Research-practice partnerships for school improvement: The Learning Schools Model. UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd

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To see how Learning Schools has been applied in a Kāhui Ako with a focus on Writing, please read this article: Partnerships find solutions to complex challenges

For more general information about Learning Schools and how it has been designed and tested for nearly 20 years, please listen to this podcast: Innovative Research Methodologies: The learning schools approach