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Research, guides, information and policies published by PPTA Te Wehengarua

NZSPC / SPANZ survey of principals on secondary teacher shortages November 2017 (November 2017) Currently there are indicated to be around 570 positions that secondary schools have not been able to fill with external appointments.
The New Zealand Secondary Principals Council (SPC) of…
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2017 PPTA News November-December (vol.38 no.7) The November December issue of PPTA News: the magazine for New Zealand secondary teachers.

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Time for teachers to secure their own oxygen masks - President's viewpoint p.3;…
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Briefing to incoming Minister (October 2017) The public education system in New Zealand has huge strengths. We are fortunate to have high performing teachers, and curricula and qualifications frameworks that are widely respected and…
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How Charities are Shaping Education Policy in New Zealand (presentation notes) (2015) Professor John O'Neill presentation to PPTA conference.
Takeaway: The public-private swamp
1. Government only ‘subsidises’ the true cost of public education.
2. Families are expected to invest in the cost of…
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Golden Opportunism (educational charities) (March 2014) Educational “charities” seem to be everywhere now – dishing out scholarships, running professional development and holding educational events. They recruit the best and brightest from the education sector…
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True charity kept at home (October 2015) Is it right that the “top five or ten percent” have increasing levels of influence and decision making power in terms of public policy and public education?
PPTA News…
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Over assessment of NCEA students (September 2017) Guidelines for senior leaders on reducing assessment.

(Written for the Senior Positions Advisory Committee (SPAC))
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Restraint guidelines (Septemver 2017) Guidelines for senior leaders on the use of restraint

(Written for Senior Positions Advisory Committee (SPAC))
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Once more into the breach... PPTA industrial stragegy for 2018 - and beyond (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. This paper investigates the economic, political and industrial environment for the 2018-2019 bargaining round, and outlines an industrial strategy, including a claims process, for that round.…
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2017 PPTA News September October (vol 38. no.6) The September October edition of PPTA News: the magazine for New Zealand secondary teachers.

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It's all about the kids...and the teachers - President's viewpoint p.3;
Charter schools fail to…
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PPTANews-SeptemberOctober-2017
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2016 NZPPTA Annual Report 2016-2017 Annual report and consolidated financial statements of the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association Te Wehengarua.
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Charities, philanthropists, policy entrepreneurs, international companies and state schooling in Aotearoa (August 2017) John O’Neill with Connor Duffy and Sarojinie Fernando Massey University
This report has provided a preliminary sketch map to identify some of the emergent strategies, tactics, dispositions and…
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NZSPC / SPANZ survey of principals on secondary teacher supply August 2017 (August 2017) Most principals are reporting that they already have problems in their schools created by teacher shortages and a majority expect the staffing problems to get worse. Again, a…
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Implementation of Communities of Learning – practitioners’ experiences (September 2017) This report contains findings from a survey of PPTA members and principals in schools identified as being part of Communities of Learning. The survey asked a range of…
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2018 Review of NCEA (presentation notes) (August 2017) PPTA has been talking with groups of members about the upcoming review of NCEA. This is one of the presentations that has been used.
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Call for Komiti Pasifika nominations 2018 - application form (24 August 2017) Nominations are invited for six vacancies on Komiti Pasifika for 2018. The term 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019.
The Komiti Pasifika advises the PPTA on…
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Digest of major PPTA policy decisions on NCEA 2002 - 2016 (August 2017) Digest of major PPTA policy decisions on the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) from 2002 - 2016.
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NCEA Review 2018: what is in scope, what is out of scope (August 2017) This document has been prepared to assist members during discussion of the NCEA Review 2018 Annual conference paper. It summarises the scope of the NCEA review planned for…
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Guidelines for negotiating a compensatory mechanism for reasonable endeavour (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper from the Canterbury Region. Recommendations: That a clear process in the form of guidelines be negotiated in the 2018 STCA round to ensure branches have a…
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Better leading for better learning: Report of the middle leadership taskforce. (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. This report is the final in a series of reports and papers by PPTA’s Middle Leadership Taskforce. It summarises the issues for middle leadership, and…
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Mā te mahi tahi, ka ora ai te taitamaiti (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. Working together to support māori student success. Ko te whāinga o tēnei pepa, he āwhina i ngā kura me ngā hapori Māori ki te mahi ngātahi,…
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Whānau, hapū, iwi, Māori communities and schools working together (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. Working together to support māori student success. The purpose of this paper is to help schools and Māori communities to work together, to build collaborative, culturally…
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Flexible Learning Spaces: an experiment on our education system (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. This paper outlines some of the issues with the current move to build and rebuild schools as flexible learning spaces. The lack of evidence from research…
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NCEA review 2018: an opportunity for change (2017) 2017 Annual conference paper. Between October 2017 and December 2018, there will be a major review of the design of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) conducted by the…
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