Teacher-led Innovation Fund (TLIF): summaries of completed projects Publications
Publication Details
These reports bring together the summaries of the Teacher-led Innovation Fund (TLIF) projects which have already been successfully completed. They demonstrate teaching practices in innovative and exciting ways or explore new practices to improve learning outcomes.
Author(s): Various
Date Published: Various
Introduction
The project summaries are intended to help groups of teachers to think creatively about their proposals and how they can further develop innovative practices.
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Deanwell School (TLIF 4-063) - Deanwell School’s Authentic Relationship Framework
Project Reference: Deanwell School (TLIF 4-063) - Deanwell School was deeply concerned about the high rates of challenging behaviour exhibited by its students. Teachers felt unable to address these behaviours, and the school office felt like a ‘triage station’, with…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Kylie Taplin and also included Samantha Hughes, Cathryn Ditchburn, Leanne Doull, John Talsma, and Sarah Hardy
Date Published: July 2020
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Waimairi School (TLIF 4–039) - Building psychological capital for learning and wellbeing
Project Reference: Waimairi School (TLIF 4–039) - The teachers at Waimairi School believed they needed to challenge and change some of their practices that focussed on what was ‘wrong’ with students’ behaviour, mindset, motivation or achievement levels, rather than on…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Kiri Anngow and Lynley Cummack
Date Published: July 2020
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Papamoa College (TLIF 4-013) - Personal projects as a primary mode of learning in the senior school
Project Reference: Papamoa College (TLIF 4-013) - Project-based learning is an exciting way of engaging students in learning around challenges that feel real to them. It enables students to make connection to the ‘real world’. Done well, it promotes the…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Dave Ballard
Date Published: July 2020
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Tamatea Intermediate School (TLIF 3-055) - How can visual narratives of learning help empower student voice?
Project Reference: Tamatea Intermediate School (TLIF 3-055) - The teachers at Tamatea Intermediate School knew their students were learning — they could see it happening in their classrooms. Their formative assessments were capturing some of it, but they believed their…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Kerri Thompson
Date Published: June 2020
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A‘oga Fa‘a Samoa Early Childhood Centre (TLIF 3-089) - A‘oga Fa‘a Samoa digital toolkit
Project Reference: A‘oga Fa‘a Samoa Early Childhood Centre (TLIF 3-089) - Through this project, A‘oga Fa‘a Samoa sought to select and use digital tools that could enable its faiaoga (teachers), children, and families to explore the Samoan language and culture…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Janice Taouma
Date Published: June 2020
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Kahukura Community of Practice, Christchurch (TLIF 4-033) - How can we increase students’ agency, especially in digital spaces?
Project Reference: Kahukura Community of Practice, Christchurch (TLIF 4-033) - The Kahukura cluster of schools had been part of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL) global cluster since 2014 and had applied the four quadrants NPDL maintains are essential…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Donna Buchanan, Clare Donnerbal, Ross Hastings, Cade Englefield, Christine Harris, Chris Panther, Liz Williams, Abby Blanch and Jared Fretwell
Date Published: May 2020
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Porirua East Kāhui Ako (5-058) - How might teachers better understand and support the expression of three- to seven-year-olds in play-based settings?
Project Reference: Porirua East Kāhui Ako: Best Start Waitangirua, Corinna School, Maraeroa Kindergarten, Moira Gallagher Kindergarten, Maraeroa School, Nuanua Kindergarten Toru Fetu Kindergarten, Windley School (TLIF 5-058) - Teachers of three-to-seven-year-olds in Porirua East were keen to grow and explore…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Project leads were Tami McCarten (Corinna School), Alexandra Owens (Maraeroa Kindergarten), and Kathleen O’Hare (Maraeroa School), Charmaine Zarate, Lynda Broadbent, Saane Mafi, Claire Stenhouse, Helen Unuia, Maria Tierney, Razia Farun, Jacki Newell and Sharee MacDonald
Date Published: May 2020
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Te Kōhanga Reo ki Rotokawa (TLIF 3-080) - Ngā kōrero tuku iho
Project Reference: Te Kōhanga Reo ki Rotokawa (TLIF 3-080) - The Kōhanga Reo movement has te ao Māori as its fundamental kaupapa. So, when Te Kōhanga Reo ki Rotokawa received an Education Review Office report telling them that assessment processes…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Tiria Shaw
Date Published: May 2020
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Waikowhai Intermediate School and Waikowhai Primary School (TLIF 4-023) - Expressing writing through one’s first language
Project Reference: Waikowhai Intermediate School and Waikowhai Primary School (TLIF 4-023) - This study set out to improve students’ writing through use of their first language. In 2017, Waikowhai Intermediate School had been one of four Auckland schools to participate…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Leanne Smith (Waikowhai Intermediate)
Date Published: May 2020
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Mercury Bay Area School (TLIF 3-037) - Changing teacher practice through using a middle years’ student profile
Project Reference: Mercury Bay Area School TLIF 3-037: Staff in the middle school years at Mercury Bay Area School had a profile describing what the ‘ideal’ middle years graduate might look like. However, they needed to learn how to use…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Julie Bougen – original project lead and deputy principal
Date Published: May 2020
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Mana College (TLIF3-071) - Can a place-based curriculum raise achievement?
The inquiry team explored how planning and implementing a place-based curriculum might improve engagement and accelerate outcomes in reading and critical thinking. Their testing showed that a quarter of students accelerated their learning and more than a third advanced their…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Amanda Picken and Marina Anderton
Date Published: May 2020
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Northcote Baptist Community Preschool (TLIF 3-084) - Digital fluency in the presence of an intentional teacher
Project Reference: Northcote Baptist Community Preschool (TLIF 3-084) - This inquiry was partly inspired by a TED Talk by Sarah Curtis. Curtis recalls her own childhood experience of being able to “play in the presence of a thoughtful teacher”.…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Elizabeth Lupton
Date Published: April 2020
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Stonefields School (TLIF 3-022) - Developing learner agency through collaborative inquiry into innovative learning design
Project Reference: Stonefields School (TLIF 3-022): The purpose of this project was to spread effective teacher practice across the school while exploring new pedagogies that grow student agency and foster deep learning. It also used collaborative inquiry to grow shared…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Jana Benson and Bob Miller
Date Published: April 2020
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Ross Intermediate (TLIF 2-103) - Raising Māori student achievement and connectedness through genuine partnership and collaboration with Rangitāne iwi
Project Reference: Ross Intermediate, Milson School, Parkland School, Central Normal School, Whakarongo School, St James’ Catholic School, Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, Awahou School TLIF 2-103. Following a unique proposal from Rangitāne o Manawatū’s Education Team, eight schools embarked on…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Wayne Jenkins - Project Lead
Date Published: January 2020
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Cobden Primary School (TLIF 3-077) - Nurturing ākonga wellbeing through agentic learning environments
Project Reference: Cobden Primary School (TLIF 3-077) - Cobden Primary School had already carried out an inquiry exploring how the ākonga and kaiako could work together to develop agency in the senior (years 6–8) class.…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Justin Hickey
Date Published: January 2020
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Pegasus Bay School (TLIF 2-013) - Cultivating agency and engagement within an ILE environment
Project Reference: Pegasus Bay School (TLIF 2-013) - Pegasus Bay School is a new school, the first in Canterbury to be designed as a modern learning environment. However, initially, the promise of innovative approaches to teaching and learning were not…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Initially led by Nicola Mathwin and later by Jared Kelly
Date Published: December 2019
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Whangarei Girls’ High School (TLIF 3-043) - Connecting the dots
Project Reference: Whangarei Girls’ High School (TLIF 3-043) - The music teachers at Whangarei Girls’ High School had spent three years establishing a Year 9 music programme based on the principles of the El Sistema programme, but had not seen…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) led by Nicholas Grew
Date Published: December 2019
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Hobsonville Point Secondary School (TLIF 2-049) - Making learning visible for improved student outcomes for priority learners in health and physical education
Project Reference: Hobsonville Point Secondary School (TLIF 2-049): Visible Learning and Teaching is well established as an effective way of improving student outcomes. A key premise is that a fundamental task of teachers is to evaluate their effect on student’s…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Natasha Low, Tome Chan-Chui, Elizabeth Samuel and Jayne Dunbar
Date Published: May 2019
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Vardon School (TLIF 2-072) - Collaborative learning within these four walls
Project Reference: Vardon School (TLIF 2-072): The teachers at Vardon School wanted to make sure students made a good transition from early childhood education to primary school, so they were set up for success throughout their time at primary school…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Peter Cowie
Date Published: March 2019
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Katikati Primary School (TLIF 2-046) - The power of ‘yet’
Project Reference: Katikati Primary School (TLIF 2-046): Primary school has found a way to make their students more successful by giving them challenges where failure was an inevitable part of the learning process. The solution for the students was to…
Author(s): (Inquiry Team) Sarah Trethewey, Jayne Harray, Dan Priest, Hannah Devery, Marlene Dyer, Megan McDougall, Jennie McKeown, Steph Dekker, Emma Hone and Ann Townsend
Date Published: March 2019
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