School Improvement Framework
Published: 19 Feb 2024
The School Improvement Framework is for use throughout your school’s evaluation cycle as part of Te Ara Huarau.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Schools
Published: 19 Feb 2024
The School Improvement Framework is for use throughout your school’s evaluation cycle as part of Te Ara Huarau.
Published: 21 Apr 2021
To support leaders and teachers to review and strengthen the science learning opportunities they provide, ERO explored the strategies and approaches that a selection of schools had taken to increase students’ engagement in science. This short guides draws on this work to help secondary school teachers think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
Published: 20 Apr 2021
To support leaders and teachers to review and strengthen the science learning opportunities they provide, ERO explored the strategies and approaches that a selection of schools had taken to increase students’ engagement in science. This short guides draws on this work to help primary school leaders think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
Published: 04 Sep 2017
At Otumoetai Intermediate, all teachers are engaged in differentiated professional learning and development. Those with similar goals are ‘buddied’ with another staff member.
Published: 10 Dec 2020
Principals and school leaders have taken on a lot of responsibility during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Education Review Office interviewed principals and board chairs and surveyed 1777 principals across the country from May through to September 2020 to understand how they have responded. This summary highlights how those school leaders rose to the challenge.
Published: 12 Apr 2021
Learning science in the primary school years helps children become better problem solvers and critical thinkers. This short guide aims to help parents and whānau of children in primary school to understand why science matters for this age group, know what to expect for science teaching and learning for their child, and think about how they can support their child’s science learning journey.
Published: 19 Jan 2021
To understand what the challenges of Covid-19 were in 2020 and how schools responded, the Education Review Office spoke to schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted students, teachers and schools, how schools responded and what they learnt, and the challenges schools expect they might face in future alert level changes.
Published: 28 Aug 2020
ERO has a comprehensive and fast-tracked work programme underway to understand the ongoing impact of Covid-19 on students, services and schools, and on teaching and learning in Aotearoa New Zealand in the English and Māori medium education sectors.
Published: 18 Jun 2020
This report gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools. The education sector is seen as an important lever in the Government’s Maihi Karauna strategy for language revitalisation.
Published: 10 May 2021
The Education Review Office (ERO) has today launched a report showing how seven Christchurch schools improved outcomes for learners through innovation and working together.
The group of schools, forming a community of practice called Kahukura, identified a need in their community to better support their students’ wellbeing and learning.
Published: 06 May 2021
This case study explores the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 events on Māori learners in English-medium schools, and the response of leaders, schools and communities in the Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions.
Published: 10 May 2021
This short report accompanies our report Exploring Collaboration in Action: Kahukura Community of Practice. It looks at the lessons that can be learnt from the Kahukura community of practice, drawing out key lessons on collaboration and providing seven key implications for schools who are interested in collaborating to consider.
Published: 10 Dec 2020
In Aotearoa, Māori-medium education experienced significant disruption when the outbreak of Covid-19 forced kura to close their doors, and whānau and kaiako to adjust to home schooling and distance learning. Among the many challenges were access to technology and resources with Māori communities among the most affected.
Published: 10 May 2021
ERO was approached by principals from Kahukura to document and evaluate their community of practice in Christchurch. This report identifies what is working well for this community of practice, areas where they might consider further enhancements, and lessons and insights into practices which could be shared with others.
Published: 19 Jan 2021
Suite of reports outlines the impacts of Covid-19 on the education sector and provides lessons for how the sector can support children, whānau, principals and teachers with the ongoing challenges of Covid-19.
Published: 23 May 2022
The Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga (ERO) welcomes the announcement of targeted investment aimed at supporting the revitalisation of te reo Māori.
Published: 04 Sep 2017
A school principal talks about how he works with his school community to develop an environment where Māori learners are supported and can succeed as Māori.
Published: 04 Sep 2017
This school seeks every opportunity to connect with the groups within its multicultural community to support those groups to connect to one another as well as engage with the school and their children’s learning.
Published: 04 Sep 2017
At Invercargill Middle School, the way in which school trustees and leaders work together fosters an appreciative and respectful environment that acknowledges the contributions of everyone in the learning community.
Published: 04 Sep 2017
The deputy principal at Kerikeri High School describes the process the school leaders went through to develop electronic systems and processes to track student academic success. The principal describes how the tracking tool alerted school leaders when students were at risk of not achieving and led them to consider ways to ensure students had further opportunities to succeed.