Gordon, Penelope

Ormond School

To explore and develop simple science activity programmes, which are user friendly, hands-on, boy friendly and which encourage and maintain a love of science, especially in the junior school

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.

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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