Secondary award recipients 2010
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Ackroyd, Dawn
St Oran's College
To achieve professional refreshment by attending a conference and visiting other similar special character school with a focus on leadership and pedagogy, in particular building leadership capacity within students and staff.
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Brokenshire, Ann
Hillmorton High School
Māori achieving success as Māori: institutional racism in our schools.
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Burrough, Rob
Linwood College
Investigation into the range and effectiveness of career services offered to secondary students.
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Corder, James
Lytton High School
To investigate successful initiatives being implemented in year 9-15 secondary schools that contribute significantly to student motivation, engagement and achievement and to consider how they could be applied at Lytton High School.
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Cruden, John
Opihi College
To investigate the response of Virtual Learning Networks (VLNs) to the issues of funding and resourcing sustainability; to investigate how the VLNs have rolled out, if at all, the educational technologies as used by their on-line teachers to the "real" classes in their schools; to investigate the creation and benefits of cross-schools virtual departments.
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Daley, Paul
Sancta Maria College
Values in education and value-added education.
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Faulkner, Ian
Wesley College
To investigate the application of special character education within a Methodist/Wesleyan context.
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Foy, Timothy
Huntly College
To use the time to simply take stock of where I am now and find the most appropriate course of action for Huntly College moving forward. Visit several schools and institutions both overseas and within NZ to answer many of the questions I have.
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Grainger, Sheila
Buller High School
To prepare a conference paper, short publication or presentation on change management leading to improved student achievement and school culture in a New Zealand secondary school, based on my experiences at Buller High School.
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Grinter, Chris
Rotorua Boys' High School
To investigate and examine the tension that exists between the role of the Principal as captured by the business leadership model of "Tomorrows Schools" and the educational leadership model as promoted by Professor Viviane Robinson and others. (Deferred to 2011).
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Hart, Bruce
Heretaunga College
To complete the formal requirements of my Executor Hillary Leadership Programme for which I have a Woolf Fisher Scholarship; Using IT to support flexible school design and personalised learning opportunities.
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Henley, Bruce
Catholic Cathedral College
To study the effects of learning a musical instrument on the academic achievement of students, particularly Pasifika and Māori students.
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Hodge, David
Rangitoto College
To learn from top performing schools in New Zealand, Australia and the USA on how they measure performance across a range of school activities and the best practice in the use of ICT for teaching and learning and administration.
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Holloway, Jane
St Catherine's College (Kilbirnie)
To study and research ways in which to connect parents, students and teachers through ICT by simplifying communication channels, in a non-labour intensive manner, thereby improving student outcomes by sharing data earlier and more often.
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Hutchinson, Morag
Green Bay High School
Searching for the silver bullet: how to lift student achievement in the second phase of principalship.
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Jackson, Michael
Albany Junior High School
A review of the literature and case studies that discuss and clearly identify barriers to data driven improvement models in schools. How those barriers may be overcome.
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Jones, Grant
Newlands College
To look at what enables students at similar decile schools to perform better in NCEA by visiting selected decile 8-10 schools.
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Jungerson, Susanne
Porirua College
To work in the Cannon's Creek educational catchment area to "look for the point at which it all goes right in schools." To examine in this small piece of research whether "teacher talk" has/d an impact on a student's academic self belief.
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Lucas, Murray
Tawa College
To explore ways in which secondary schools and their communities work in partnership to effect positive changes. To look at effective behaviour change programmes.
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Lynch, Mary
Villa Maria College
To teach/assist for 1 month in a school in Tonga. My report will contribute to the debate by the Ministry of Ed that New Zealand schools should improve the achievement of Pacific Island students.
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Miles, Anne
McAuley High School
To investigate how schools in low socio-economic areas in Britain identify students who are gifted and or talented. I will examine the programmess offered and investigate what aspects could be incorporated in my school.
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Moses, Roger
Wellington College
The acceleration of able students in New Zealand secondary schools.
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Packman, Janette
Waimate High School
To investigate restorative practices as a means of dealing with discipline and improving school culture by visiting schools in New Zealand and overseas.
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Watt, Stephen
Kelston Boys' High School
Attendance at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Boys' Schools Coalition, Haverford School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA; attendance at an appropriate Summer Institute Course delivered from the Principals' Centre, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Kelson Boys' High School Specific projects.
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