Investing an extra $359m in funding over four years, and $155m a year after that, to help raise student achievement. Investing in Educational Success (IES) will:
- give children and young people throughout New Zealand a better education by lifting student achievement
- create new career opportunities for teachers and principals
- help ensure quality teaching and leadership can be shared across all schools
- encourage collaborative practice across schools.
NZ schools are being provided with the resources to enable:
- about 250 Communities of around ten schools (covering all children in NZ)
- about 250 principals coordinating action to meet Community goals
- about 1,000 teachers (1 in 50 teachers) working throughout the Communities to strengthen teaching practice
- about 5,000 teachers (1 in 10 teachers) sharing and supporting good practice with their colleagues
- about 250,000 hours for teachers to mentor and learn from each other
- about 20 strugglingof our most high-needs schools a year receiving approval to advertise with a new allowance to help recruit an experienced principal
- there is also $10 million for teacher-led research to develop and share innovative teaching ideas.
Here’s how it works
- groups of schools form their own Communities of Learning
of Schoolsand decide together on their achievement challenges - school Boards of Trustees choose whether to take part – no school will have to join a Community of Learning
Schools - Communities of Learning
of Schoolsuse their shared information to set goals which will help lift student achievement by setting achievement challenges specific to their schools needs - schools share their most effective teachers and leaders to meet these goals
- resources are provided to support teachers and principals to collaborate.
It’s good for children
- all children will benefit from the skills and knowledge of effective teachers from across a whole Community of Learning
Schools - teachers will work together to meet each Community of Learning’s
Schools’learning goals and raise achievement - primary and secondary schools will work together to support stronger transitions for children as they progress through their schooling.
It’s good for teachers and principals
- the new roles give teachers and principals further career development opportunities e.g. new opportunities for deputy and assistant principals to step up, and to strengthen team leadership
- schools are funded to release staff for these roles and for other teachers to learn from each other and to investigate practice to improve
- teachers, principals and Boards have helped shape Investing in Educational Success.
- as of June 2015 there are 29 Communities of Schools, involving 220 schools, who are currently working on their achievement challenges, with more Communities to come in 2015
- over 80,000 students across New Zealand are covered by these Communities of Learning
Schools
Further information
- Information sheet: IES - contact web.channel@education.govt.nz if you have any problems viewing this PDF
- Call free on 0800 IES INFO (0800 437 4636)
- Write to IES.Team@education.govt.nz
- Or ask at your local Ministry office .