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
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Science in secondary schools: a guide for leaders
Published: 22 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 leaders think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- State schools
- Integrated schools
- Primary
Science in secondary schools: a guide for teachers
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.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- State schools
- Integrated schools
- Schools
Science in primary schools: a guide for leaders
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.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- Integrated schools
- Schools
- State schools
State and State-integrated schools/kura
Published: 16 Mar 2022
This page explains how we work with you to review your English-medium school/kura. You will find our evaluation for improvement process and the documents that you will need during your evaluation including the evaluation indicators and school self audit and assurance statement.
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- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Basic page
- Topics:
- Integrated schools
- State schools
- school improvement framework
Science in primary schools: a guide for teachers
Published: 19 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 teachers think about how they can support stronger science teaching and learning in their school.
- Audience:
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- State schools
- Integrated schools
- Primary
Professional Learning and Development in Schools
Published: 02 Dec 2019
How well were school leaders determining Professional Learning and Development priorities and evaluating its impact?
ERO spoke with school leaders responsible for planning Professional Learning and Development (PLD) and looked at a variety of documents in 242 state or state-integrated schools (excluding kura) reviewed in Terms 3 and 4, 2018. ERO made an overall judgment about how well school leaders were determining PLD priorities and evaluating the impact of PLD.
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Schools
- School leaders
- Literacy
- International education
Ethnic diversity in New Zealand state schools
Published: 01 Jan 2018
This article originally appeared in ERO Insights - Term 1, 2018 and explores how the ethnic diversity of the primary and secondary school roll has changed in New Zealand since 2009, and whether these changes are leading to more diverse or more segregated schools.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Early learning
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Ethnic diversity
- Diversity
- Cultural diversity
- State schools
Schools' Provision for Gifted and Talented Students
Published: 01 Jun 2018
In 2008 the Education Review Office evaluated schools’ provision for gifted and talented students.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
- National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)
A guide for parents and whānau on supporting science in primary school
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.
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- Academics
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- Schools
- Guides for parents
Including Students with High Needs Primary Schools
Published: 10 Jul 2013
This ERO evaluation reports on primary schools' progress in relation to the Government's Success for All policy. Success for All is about getting all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for students with special needs.
- Audience:
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- High needs
- Special education
- Inclusion
- Ethical standards
- Stand Children's Services Tu Maia Whanau
- Inclusive practices
- Group Special Education (GSE)
- Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB)
- Primary
Learning in a Covid-19 World: How school leadership rose to the challenge
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.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Leadership
- Schools
- School leaders
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Schools
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.
- Audience:
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Schools
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Including Students with Special Needs: School Questionnaire Responses
Published: 01 Apr 2012
This report, Including Students with Special Needs: school questionnaire responses presents the findings from a questionnaire completed by schools reviewed in the first two terms of 2011. It is based on schools’ own views of how well they include children with special needs.
- Audience:
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Special education
- High needs
- Inclusive practices
- Questionnaire
- Teacher aides
- Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)
Schools' Provision for Gifted and Talented Students: Good Practice
Published: 01 Jun 2008
In 2008 the Education Review Office evaluated schools’ provision for gifted and talented students.
School boards of trustees, through their principals and staff, are required to use good quality assessment information to identify students who have special needs (including gifted and talented), and to develop and implement teaching and learning strategies to meet the needs of these students.
A group of schools was particularly effective in providing for gifted and talented students and ERO has set out their good practice in this report.
- Audience:
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Gifted and Talented Education (GATE)
- National Administrative Guidelines (NAGs)
Covid-19: Impact on schools and early childhood services - Interim Report
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.
- Audience:
- Early learning
- Education
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- COVID-19
- Early childhood services
- Schools
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Science in New Zealand schools and early childhood services - series summary
Published: 12 Apr 2021
Science is important – we rely on science and scientific thinking in almost every endeavour in our modern society. High quality science education at school is essential for learners who want a career in science, but it is also important for all learners to help them understand the scientific issues that whānau, communities, and nations face. Issues such as climate change, healthy living, and innovation all depend on science.
- Audience:
- Early learning
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Science
- Early learning
- Early childhood services
- Integrated schools
- State schools
Evaluation at a glance: What ERO knows about effective schools
Published: 09 Mar 2011
Evaluation at a Glance: What ERO Knows About Effective Schools explores five themes from a cross-section of ERO's evaluations in primary and secondary schools over the past four years:
- A focus on the learner
- Leadership in an inclusive culture
- Effective teaching
- Engagement with parents, whānau and communities
- Coherent policies and practice in a cycle of continuous self review
- Audience:
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Evaluation
- Schools
- Community
Including Students with High Needs: School Questionnaire Responses (2)
Published: 09 Sep 2012
All children deserve the right to an education including those with special education needs. Through its Success for All policy, the Government expects all schools to demonstrate inclusive practice for children with special education needs by the end of 2014. This report presents the findings of a questionnaire where schools assess their own provisions for students with special education needs. It follows on from a similar report produced in early 2012.
- Audience:
- Education
- Māori-medium
- Parents
- Schools
- Content type:
- Research
- Topics:
- Special education
- High needs
- Inclusive practices
- Questionnaire
- Teacher aides
- Special education needs coordinators (SENCO)
Seven Christchurch schools work together to make a difference for their learners
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.
- Audience:
- Academics
- Education
- Schools
- Content type:
- News article
- Topics:
- Collaboration
- Decision making
- English-medium
- Evaluation
- Guidance
- Improvement
- Intermediate
- Internal evaluation
- Knowledge building
- Primary
- Relationships
- School leaders
- Schools
- Secondary
- Students
- Teachers | Kaiako
- Teaching
- Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre