Secondary award recipients 2017

Cavanagh-Monaghan, Lindy

Blue Mountain College

Attend one or more international educational conferences to broaden my horizons in regard to the latest research, trends and successful initiatives – preferably in the UK or the USA.
Coddington, Carol

St Dominic's Catholic College (Henderson)

Research modern learning environments and pedagogy, and the pros and cons.

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Fenton, Gregory

Havelock North High School

Visit schools, read, write and reflect. Attend the International Confederation of Principals convention in Cape Town.

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Ford, William

Tokoroa High School

Investigate various initiatives that some schools in New Zealand and Australia are using to improve the educational outcomes of priority group students.

Green, Fiona

St Mary's Diocesan School (Stratford)

Investigate strategies to build personal resilience and promote wellbeing for girls in boarding schools.

Mackle, Gregory

Gisborne Boys' High School

Investigate programmes and strategies in schools in Australia which focus on the pathways for students/young men when they move on from their secondary school teaching and learning.
Mangan, Robert

Tauranga Boys' College

Inquire into delivering a curriculum to meet the needs of leavers in 2022 and the structural changes necessary to deliver this curriculum to drive a change in pedagogy.

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Olivier, David

St Peter's College (Palmerston North)

Visit a selection of schools looking at innovative timetable structures that will allow us to make decisions and implement a very different timetable and day structure for the implementation of our new teaching and learning philosophy.

Rasheed, Regina

Zayed College for Girls

Attend an intensive course to learn the Arabic language in an Arabic speaking country such as Oman or Saudi Arabia.
Russell, John

Naenae College

Research best practices with the Big Picture Learning model. Visit a number of schools and attend the Annual International Conference in the USA.

Shanahan, Mark

Waitakere College

Investigate how to sustain school culture during change. Visit eight schools in America and England and two school districts that have a history of exceptional leadership on raising and maintaining student achievement for mixed community schools. Confirm first-hand the strategic review cycles, systems and structures that the schools have in place to maintain positive learning cultures.

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Shepherd, Geoffrey

Kuranui College

Rethink and restructure the year 11–13 curriculum to better suit the learning and vocational needs of the 70% of students whose pathway is not into university study.
Shore, Kevin

Cullinane College

Attend a one week course at Harvard University focusing on strengthening my educational leadership skills and developing a clear strategic direction for my focus over the next few years.
Sinclair, Ross

Hutt Valley High School

Complete a survey of all alternative senior transition courses offered in all New Zealand secondary schools and collate a national overview, including the standards offered.
Smith, Jeffery

Papanui High School

Visit key institutions and schools involved in academic counselling, and research and read, to formulate a sustainable and capacity-building model.

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Uys, Johannes

Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Senior School

Research the issue of a seamless curriculum, particularly how we can construct a seamless curriculum in a cluster of collegiate framework.

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