2019 BEST

• •Whanaungatanga: ‘Community’ 
• •Mahi Tahi:

  •‘Leadership’

• PARTNERSHIPS and NETWORKS Strengthen communication and relationships to enhance student learning.

  Work with the board to facilitate strategic decision making. Actively foster relationships with the school’s community and local iwi. Actively foster professional relationships with, and between colleagues, and with government agencies and others with expertise in the wider education community. Interact regularly with parents and the school community on student progress and other school-related matters. Actively foster relationships with other schools and participate in appropriate school networks.

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• Ideas moving forward.

1. BEST is the theme Better every single time!
2. St Dominic helps me the very BEST person I can be as a Child of God.
3. Criteria and levels of success fir Year 5/6
4. Graduate profile
5. Learning video created by children
6. Back to basic year.

• Student learning, engagement and achievement needs to be the focus of school leaders and the focus of school review (KLP, 2008).

1. Is this the centre of all that we do here at St Dominic's?
2. What side swipes thus along the way?

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• School leaders make a critical difference to the quality of schools and the education of young people. The closer that educational leadership gets to the core business of teaching and learning the more likely it is that leaders will have a positive impact on students (Robinson, Hohepa and Lloyd, 2009).
• We currently are too far away from the core business! We need to ensure that we are having a positive impact on student learning.

• Home-school connections are important. School leaders can build educationally powerful connections with families, whānau and communities through their approach to home learning, and by developing strong relationships with them (Robinson et al, 2009).
• This is especially true in regards M and P students. What does this currently look like and how do improve this in the school?
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• It is unrealistic to expect any one leader to possess all the leadership knowledge, skills and dispositions that a school needs. It is important that a principal develops other leaders within the school. A school leader also needs to strengthen networks with experts beyond the school. In these ways school leaders give and gain support to develop effective learning communities (KLP, 2008).
• ACC Kahui Ako
• Shared leadership model....what does this look like in regards accountability and responsibility?

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