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Annual Conference papers 2017-2018

Papers presented to Annual Conference for debate and policy development. These papers have been developed by PPTA Executive and/or PPTA regions.

Time to Review-and-Strengthen-Treaty-Partnerships (Maori version)(2018)

Time to Review and Strengthen Treaty Partnerships (2018)

The Tomorrow's Schools Review (2018)

Professional Learners (2018)

Looking After Yourself (2018)

Improving the Communities of Schools Model (2018)

Constitutional Amendments (2018)

Career Pathways - Subject Pedagogy Specialists (2018)

Auckland Name Change (2018)

Affirming diversity: inclusion for sexuality and gender minorities

Better leading for better learning: Report of the middle leadership taskforce. (2017)

Careers services in danger (2017)

Communities of learning: the slippage between planning and implementation (2017)

Day relief teachers - Victims of casualisation (2017)

Flexible Learning Spaces: an experiment on our education system (2017)

Guidelines for negotiating a compensatory mechanism for reasonable endeavour (2017)

NCEA review 2018: an opportunity for change (2017)

Once more into the breach... PPTA industrial stragegy for 2018 - and beyond (2017)

Mā te mahi tahi, ka ora ai te taitamaiti (2017)

Whānau, hapū, iwi, Māori communities and schools working together (2017)

Draft Principles for Partnerships between secondary schools and initial teacher education (2016)

Establishment of a PPTA Men’s Network (2016)

From the top corridor to the back field: supporting senior leaders to lead effective change (2016)

The middle leadership problem (2016)

Real equity funding: resourcing schools to support at risk learners (2016)

Teachers in the precariat: fixed-term contracts and the effect on establishing teachers (2016)

Charter schools: an update (2015)

EDUCANZ: the current state of play (2015)

Initial teacher education in change: But is it for the better? (2015)

Middle leadership in crisis (2015)

NCEA can it be saved (2015)

Accelerated change in the senior secondary school (2011)

Building on excellence: How to make a great schooling system even better (2010)

From islands to archipelagos: developing secondary school leadership (2010)

‘Mind your language’: Our responsibility to protect and promote Pacific Islands languages in New Zealand (2010)

NCEA Internal Assessment: A harder job than professional marking! (2010)

No silver bullet: An update on issues relating to behaviour and engagement ...(2010)

Private profiteering or public private partnerships (2010)

Teachers Council: Government patsy or voice of the profession? (2010)

80, 15, 5 percent: What we know; what they need… (2009)

Connected secondary schools (2009)

Duty outside timetabled hours (2009)

Housing affordability (2009)

Integration or disintegration? (2009)

Mentoring for secondary teachers (2009)

Disruptive anti-social behaviour in secondary schools (2008)

Housing affordability (2008)

NCEA: A pathway to the future (2008)

Needs-based staffing for secondary schools (2008)

Tomorrow’s schools: Yesterday’s mistake? (2008)

Valuing beginning teachers (2008)

An advanced qualifications pathway for secondary teachers (2007)

Class size report (2007)

Class size presentation (2007)

NCEA: Nothing endures but change... (2007)

Secondary teaching into future (2007)

NCEA the work continues (2006)

NCEA a work in progress (2005)

NCEA Monitoring System Report (2003)

NCEA - Result: Not Yet Achieved (plus Supplementary paper) (2002)

Annual conference papers are PPTA policy initiatives, they:
• originate with members in the branches.
• are developed and consolidated by the regions.
• receive approval at the annual conference and become part of the association’s policy.

Conference paper recommendations may be changed or removed during conference debate. The minutes of the conference record the recommendations that delegates to the conference voted on and carried (passed).