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Learning in residential care: A guide for leaders and teachers

Published: 01 Jul 2021

This short guide is for leaders and teachers that work with students in residential care. It draws from our report Learning in Residential Care, ‘They knew I wanted to learn’, sharing what we heard when we looked at the quality of education in Oranga Tamariki residential care, what research tells us about good education provision for these students, and actions leaders and teachers can take to strengthen teaching and learning in residential care.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Positive Foundations for Learning: Confident and Competent Children in Early Childhood Services

Published: 30 Oct 2011

This report discusses the areas of strength, and areas for development that ERO found. It also describes the practices of specific service types - Playcentres, kindergartens and education and care services - in supporting children’s social competence, and understanding of appropriate behaviour.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Social and emotional competence; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Regulatory frameworks; Professional capability

Provision for Māori Children in Early Childhood Services July 2008

Published: 28 Jul 2008

This Education Review Office (ERO) report is based on the findings of a study involving 16 early childhood services and one umbrella organisation undertaken as part of each service’s regular education review during Term 4, 2007.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Māori; Early childhood services

Let’s keep talking: Oral language development in the early years

Published: 23 Aug 2024

Language is the foundation for children’s learning and success. Children use oral language to become good thinkers and communicators, and to develop the literacy skills they need to achieve well in school and beyond. This report draws together a range of evidence to look at how well children are developing the oral language skills they need when they start school. We also look at how Early Childhood Education (ECE) can help children to develop these important skills, and recommendations for action.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Education in NZ failing disabled learners, new research finds

Published: 28 Sep 2022

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO), in partnership with the Office for Disability Issues and the Human Rights Commission, has found that education across NZ schools and early childhood services is failing disabled learners.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Guidance and Counselling in Schools: Survey Findings

Published: 30 Jul 2013

This report presents the findings of three online surveys about the current provision of guidance and counselling in schools with students in Years 9 to 13. This is the first phase of work being undertaken by ERO as part of the Prime Minister’s Youth Mental Health Project.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Guidance; Counselling; Child wellbeing

‘Everything Was New’: Preparing and Supporting New Principals

Published: 13 Jul 2023

More than a third of our principals have less than five years’ experience in the role, and it’s important that they are set up for success. This report looks at pathways and supports for new principals.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Kia Manawanui

Published: 13 Sep 2022

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2021 | Te eke angitū a te Māori hei Māori - Māori enjoying and achieving education success as Māori

As part of ERO’s commitment to Te Wiki te reo Māori, this special publication is a chance to share the evaluation insights from both Māori medium and English medium settings.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Early Childhood Education: A Guide for Parents

Published: 01 Jun 2007

This 2007 ERO report is to help parents make an informed decision about selecting an early childhood service to suit them and their children. It identifies types of early childhood services and ways in which parents can help their child settle into a service.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Early Childhood Education (ECE); Kindergartens; Education and care centres; Parent-led services; Playcentres; Playgroups; Ngā puna kōhungahunga

Reporting to Parents: National Standards Years 4 to 8

Published: 11 Sep 2012

This ERO report is part of a series of reports being published over three years about aspects of the implementation of the National Standards in English-medium schools, with students in Years 1 to 8. The report focuses on schools’ progress with reporting to parents in relation to the National Standards.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Schools; Parents; National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)

Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi

Published: 31 Mar 2021

ERO is guided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Treaty of Waitangi. We work to ensure that as an organisation and a system we honour our obligations to Te Tiriti - The Treaty.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Our structure

Published: 31 Mar 2021

ERO's Business Units include Review and Improvement Services; Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre; Te Tahu Whare | Evaluation and Review Māori; and Corporate Services.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

A Guide for Parents Sending their Child to a Cohort Entry School

Published: 31 May 2022

This short guide for whānau and parents draws on ERO’s new report, Starting Schools Together: What Do We Know? to provide insights about what cohort entry means for how your child transitions from early learning to a cohort entry school.

Audience:: Education; Parents

Content type:: Research

Students talk about learning in residential care

Published: 01 Jul 2021

ERO looked at the quality of education for students in Oranga Tamariki Care and Protection and Youth Justice residences. During this, ERO talked to students about their learning in residential care. This short and easy to read guide is aimed at students in residential care and contains information on what students like them told us about their learning.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Ko te ako i ngā whare haumaru: He aratohu mō ngā mātua me ngā whānau

Published: 01 Jul 2021

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Behavioural needs; Best practice; Boys' education; Child wellbeing; Culture; Education and care services; Education outcomes; Education transitions; Equitable outcomes; Good practice; High needs; Māori; Physical and emotional safety; Priority learners; Raising achievement; Social workers; Teaching; Te reo Māori; Transitions; Vulnerable learners; Wellbeing

Corporate Services

Published: 31 Mar 2021

Ensures our staff have access to tools and information to achieve ERO’s objectives. This team also ensures we meet government expectations in relation to employment and work activities.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

One Year on – Insights from Overseas Trained Teachers

Published: 18 May 2021

In June 2020, ERO published the report Overseas Trained Teachers: Adjusting to living and working in New Zealand. The report focused on the experiences of Overseas Trained Teachers (OTTs), who had recently arrived, in adjusting to working and living in New Zealand.

Given the Covid-19 global pandemic has placed strict restrictions on New Zealand’s borders, ERO returned to the same OTTs to check on how they were coping with the pandemic.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Services

Published: 11 Dec 2015

This national report presents the findings of ERO's recent evaluation of how well early childhood services include children with moderate to severe special needs. This evaluation supports the Government's priority for every child to have the opportunity to participate in early childhood education (ECE).

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Special education; Education Support Workers; Disability action groups

Social Workers in Schools

Published: 29 Nov 2019

This ERO qualitative case study report undertaken on behalf of Oranga Tamariki captures the voices of children and their whanau who were recipients of the Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) service. SWiS is a government funded, community social work service provided in most English and Māori medium, decile 1-3 primary and intermediate schools.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Social Workers in Schools (SWiS); Social workers; Primary; Intermediate; Pastoral care; Case study; Resilience; Therapeutic care and education (TEC)

Educationally powerful connections with parents and whānau

Published: 09 Nov 2015

In this report, the Education Review Office (ERO) evaluated how well 256 schools worked with parents and whanau to respond to students at risk of underachievement. We looked for examples where schools had specifically worked with parents and whānau to accelerate and support progress and improve achievement.

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: At-risk students; Evaluation; Whanaungatanga; Accelerated learning; Pasifika