Education Counts

Page navigation links

  • Education Counts Logo
  • Skip to Primary Navigation Menu
  • Skip to Secondary Navigation Menu
  • Skip to search
  • Skip to content

Site Search

Site Search

Site navigation menus

  • Know your Region
  • Communities of Learning
  • Find your nearest school
  • Early Learning Services
  • Directories
  • Publications
  • Indicators
  • Statistics
  • Topics
  • Data Services

Search the education counts website

Find pages with

Narrow results by:

School leadership for improvement in primary mathematics education:

1. Pedagogical Leadership – Preparation Year 0

"I wasn't prepared to just take the first thing that came.  I was really wanting something that was proven." Principal

"We had done the research and found that there were good results further north, and we believe in fostering their culture as well as integrating that into their learning, which is what this programme seemed to do."   Chair, Board of Trustees

"…for me it was just:  oh, this is just another fly-by-night Ministry programme that they've thrown at us.  It's been years of working to craft how to teach maths and then, all of a sudden, we're going to do DMIC, which means you have to throw all that knowledge away and concentrate on doing it this way.  So yeah, I thought: 'oh, here we go'. Bobbie had I think trialled this in Auckland, and I think one of the comments I heard (was): 'Well, we're Wellington…This is not Auckland'."  Teacher Aide/ Board Trustee

"…she (Principal, Sose Annandale) says 'Oh, let me tell you about this Pasifika maths I heard about and been to the workshop'. It is really exciting. It was only through that passion she has about trying to improve and help Pasifika kids that I became convinced and hooked on it."  Teacher

"Sose is a very special leader. Often leaders just 'follow me, come with me. We're doing it this way', but she's very much 'come on, let's go, we can do this together'. She'll take things on. She'll embrace change but she wouldn't just do something for its own sake. She would it do it when she saw a value or a purpose."  In-class mentor

"Sose has always led by example. If you've got to learn it, I'm going to learn it."   In-class mentor

Without a compelling vision, proof of value, strategic resourcing, and active and responsive support from school leadership, staff are likely to reject new ideas that conflict with their current understandings.

Addressing unconscious bias and developing culturally responsive teaching practice remain challenges for New Zealand education. As the New Zealand best evidence syntheses reveal, demonstrated external expertise matters as well-intentioned change can have negative effects.

School leadership of vision, inquiry, early preparation, trust building and wider ownership of change are critical success factors in leveraging opportunities for professional learning and deep change.

As a principal, leader and co-learner, Principal of Russell School, Porirua East, Sose Annandale, developed the understanding and support of teachers, senior staff, teacher aides, parents, whānau, Board Trustees and children.

See the video on Russell School community perspectives on Pedagogical Leadership – Preparation Year 0

Topics Home

Navigation

  • BES Programme: Hei Kete Raukura
  • School leadership for improvement in primary mathematics education:
  • 1. Pedagogical Leadership – Preparation Year 0
  • 2. Teachers Responding to the Challenge
  • 3. Building Social Competencies for Accelerated Improvement
  • 4. The Mathematics Communication and Participation Framework: Integrated Progressions
  • 5. In-class mentoring for accelerated pedagogical improvement
  • 6. Deep Change: Applied post-graduate study
  • 7. Collaborative lesson study for sustainability
  • 8. Towards Kāhui Ako: Building learning community
  • 9. Family and community: Partners in change
  • 10. Russell School: The Difference

Contact Us

Best Evidence Synthesis |
Hei Kete Raukura

For more information visit BES on Education Counts, or email the: Best Evidence Mailbox.

Home Close Menu
  • Know your Region Show submenu
  • Communities of Learning Show submenu
  • Find your nearest school Show submenu
  • Early Learning Services Show submenu
  • Directories Show submenu
  • Publications Show submenu
    • Early Childhood EducationShow submenu
      • Responding to diverse cultures: Good practice in home-based early childhood servicesShow submenu
    • MāoriShow submenu
    • SchoolingShow submenu
    • PacificShow submenu
    • Tertiary EducationShow submenu
    • Learning SupportShow submenu
      • Learning Support Coordinators Evaluation: Phase 2Show submenu
    • InternationalShow submenu
    • Publication SeriesShow submenu
  • Indicators Show submenu
  • Statistics Show submenu
    • Annual Monitoring Reading RecoveryShow submenu
    • Attainment of 18-year-oldsShow submenu
    • AttendanceShow submenu
    • Attendance under COVID-19Show submenu
    • Beyond StudyShow submenu
    • Early Learning ParticipationShow submenu
    • ECE FinancesShow submenu
    • ECE ServicesShow submenu
    • ECE StaffingShow submenu
    • Early Leaving ExemptionsShow submenu
    • Entering & leaving teachingShow submenu
    • Fees Free tertiary educationShow submenu
    • Financial Support for Tertiary StudentsShow submenu
    • Funding to SchoolsShow submenu
    • HomeschoolingShow submenu
    • Initial Teacher Education StatisticsShow submenu
    • International students in NZShow submenu
    • Language use in ECEShow submenu
    • Literacy & NumeracyShow submenu
    • Māori Language in SchoolingShow submenu
    • NZ's Workplace-based LearnersShow submenu
    • Number of SchoolsShow submenu
    • Ongoing Resourcing SchemeShow submenu
    • Pacific Language in SchoolingShow submenu
    • Per Student Funding for SchoolsShow submenu
    • Post-compulsory education & trainingShow submenu
    • School BoardsShow submenu
    • School Board RepresentationShow submenu
    • School Leaver DestinationsShow submenu
    • School Leaver's AttainmentShow submenu
    • School RollsShow submenu
    • School Subject EnrolmentShow submenu
    • Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions & expulsionsShow submenu
    • Teacher NumbersShow submenu
      • 2021Show submenu
      • 2020Show submenu
    • Teacher TurnoverShow submenu
    • Tertiary Financial PerformanceShow submenu
    • Tertiary ParticipationShow submenu
    • Tertiary Population DataShow submenu
    • Tertiary ResearchShow submenu
    • Tertiary ResourcingShow submenu
    • Tertiary Achievement & AttainmentShow submenu
    • Tertiary Summary TablesShow submenu
    • Total public expenditure on educationShow submenu
    • Transient StudentsShow submenu
    • Vocational Education & TrainingShow submenu
  • Topics Show submenu
  • Data Services Show submenu

Site information

  • Site map
  • Contact us
  • Feedback
  • About this site
  • Glossary
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright, Legal & Privacy
  • Links
  • © Education Counts 2022
  • Ministry of Education logo.
  • New Zealand Government logo.
Scroll to top of page