Wider Context: 26.9% of New Zealanders aged are not in education. Second worst dropout rate in the OECD.

Mentoring Conference and Student Engagement Conference. Big Picture Conference.

Quotes from Dennis Littky: Big Picture: Education is Everyone’s Business

“You cannot know a kid whose voice you don’t listen to, whose interests are a mystery, whose family is excluded, and whose feelings are viewed as irrelevant to the educational process.” (page 20)

“Kids are very attuned to adults attitudes towards them. They can tell when you have low expectations for them…. (this) can hurt them badly” (page 16)

“Knowledge can get in the way sometimes.” (page 16) “The three R’s (at the Met) are relationships, relevance and rigour.” (page 39)

Some significant differences between BP Schools and TCS. The similarities are around best practice.

Where to Now? Much more detailed Team Meetings to discuss: (1) Student at the centre, “1 student at a time”. “1 size fits one”.

(2) Circle of influence/in-region support/VIP →mentoring internships. (3) Macro questions Evolving roles across TCS.

Macro questions will be unpicked at Vision Cafēs at the end of the year. Big Picture Steering Group will be established. First meeting shortly.

Pedagogy Paper on the blog

Russell Bishop’s work with Te Kotahitanga schools focuses on:  Successful teachers/effective relationships that are respectful, genuine, caring and culturally located.

 Teachers with high expectations for students.  High quality teaching and learning.  Learning as emotional as well as cognitive.

John Hatties’ work shows that teacher interventions make a difference (effect size): we need to focus on those that make a bigger difference (and which we can influence).

Those with greatest effect size include:  Feedback  Instructional Quality  Setting really challenging goals

 Peer Tutoring  Parental involvement  Deep questioning as a basis for learning

TCS: Acknowledge and build on current best practice. We have a robust Gateway model as a pilot for good practice

Plus Tertiary Pathways: STAR, Tertiary Link. Current best practice with increased wrap-around support for each student.

TCS diagram N CN Student Development Centres Hamilton Tauranga Whakatane Rotorua

An Example: Whakatane Student Development Centre E-Plus Student identified (Robert)

Initial contact by SSA/YAA. Local LA allocated. Development Centre as a meeting place/work support.

Learning Advisor Steps: (1) Circle of Influence: meeting with whanau, wider groups. (2) Student interests and supports identified.

VIP or significant adult identified. (3) Programme developed around interests, goals, aspirations.

(4) If needed mentoring sourced through E-Plus. (5) Internship/authentic learning opportunities through E-Plus contacts, student contacts, LA contacts, LT contacts or

supported by in-region staff. (6) On-going monitoring and review and adaptation of PoL as circumstances change.