Shennan, Mike

Mt Maunganui School

To investigate and summarise for colleagues and BOTS effective methodology and formats used by school leadership teams to effectively report analysed achievement data to BOTs and school communities and to review and report on quality formats being used and/or adapted to achieve the intent of the Government's commitment for schools to provide plain-language reports to parents on progress and achievement.

Simpson, Anthony

Phillipstown School

To explore the contention that children "are powerfully shaped by the external environment".

Small, Juliet

Sunny Hills School

High performance cycles: what structures and processes do schools adopt to promote continuous learning? How do schools use learning walks and other processes to improve teacher capability?

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Smith, Zita

St Theresa's School (Plimmerton)

To explore creative writing programmes for children with a particular focus on gifted and talented students.

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Smith, John

Kamo Intermediate School

To explore the reality of what it is that keeps the principal buoyant with energy to inspire the team to maintain and grow the school culture.

Smith, Debbie

Tauriko School

To collate and provide evidence and successful examples of strategies primary schools are using and can use to improve the readiness to school of new entrant children and their successes within the first year of schooling.

Sutton, Bill

Thorndon School

To examine what schools understand by creativity, what they are doing to promote its development and to look at what the international education community thinks.

Taylor, Andrew

Colwill School

Professional refreshment; to investigate how other principals and teachers have been able to move successfully through and into the full "recovery stage" after a statutory intervention.

Tennent, David

St Mary's School (Papakura)

Leading school improvement through mentoring of strong middle management - lessons from schools in New Zealand and the UK.

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Thompson, Andrew

St Joseph's School (Onehunga)

To investigate what factors in home-school partnership programmes demonstrably affect student achievement and to investigate benefits of parental involvement in a child's education.