New Zealand
Contemporary Learning Tour
Overview
Pre-Tour Workshop
Wednesday September 11
Online
4-4.30pm (AEST)
Tour Dates
Monday September 16 - Friday September 20
Itinerary Highlights
Stonefields School
How do Stonefields successfully partner with parents in our post covid world?
Stonefields will share their current community research project that is driving higher parent engagement in sincere and meaningful ways.
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Explore their improvement dashboard that allows Stonefields to measure what they value and make change based on that data.
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Hear how they practically and strategically turn their vision into practice, embedding a culture of high performing teams and collective efficacy, creating collaboration that creates improved outcomes for learners.
The AGE School
Principal Andrea Tong and her team are excited to share with us how students at their schools are immersed in taking action in the community and the community groups that they partner with to make this happen in meaningful ways.
Andrea is also excited to share their new connection to a fully online school as they expand the pathways that they offer education, as well as how they are partnering to investigate and evaluate how the use of AI in Education can benefit both educators and learners.
Albany Senior
At Albany we will engage with Senior Secondary students who are getting ready to exhibit their personal project learning to the wider community.
We will learn about how these projects drive student learning and pathways at Albany.
Te Ao Marama
We will take a deep dive into building culture as we explore how the school partners with local Maori community, Whiria te tangata, weaving the people together.
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Clarity of Vision is key for this school and they will share how they induct new staff into school culture and their collaborative teaching and teaming model and values alignment.
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We will explore learner agency and learning through clearly defined modes of play.
Mata Hui
A school that engages nearby forest landscape as a partner in learning, with all students engaging in one day a week of “Forest School”.
The learning on this day happens through the lens of democratic learning, where students are given agency to make choices about which aspect of the curriculum aligned activities that they will engage in for the day.
The forest school program takes a wellbeing, science, arts and design focus with a strong focus on Adventure and play.
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Our day will be spent learning about and engaging in their forest program.
Workshop led by Maurie Abraham
Maurie is the semi retired principal of Hobsonville Point School. He will be running a workshop for us to help identify your personal and school based why, to use that understanding to develop guiding principles that will shape your decision making.
Maurie will share a tool to enable us to run similar workshops with our own teams, as well as a playbook to focus on growing learner agency through implementing pedagogical practice.