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‘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

'Everything was new': preparing and supporting new principals - Summary

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. ERO looked at pathways and supports for new principals.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

New evidence and insights website

Published: 23 Feb 2024

On 13 Feb ERO launched a new evidence and insights website – a one-stop resource hub for all of ERO’s practical research and sector insights: www.evidence.ero.govt.nz

The new site, designed for educators, aims to highlight good practice and provide accessible insights on what is happening for education in NZ. It is all about making it easy for teachers and leaders to find relevant insights and good practice resources. 

 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Content type:
News article

Capabilities for High Quality Education Evaluation

Published: 06 Jul 2021

The framework defines the capabilities that are needed to undertake and deliver high quality education evaluations in the diverse contexts of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Audience:
Academics
Content type:
Basic page

New Schools approach: From concept to reality

Published: 18 May 2021

ERO’s role is to ensure that New Zealanders can have confidence in our education system. ERO wants every school to be a great school and a great place to learn for every learner. We all acknowledge that schools are busy, complex entities with competing priorities and multiple demands on their time and resources. In order to support schools in this challenge, ERO is adopting a new way of working with the sector.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

New report to support maths teaching

Published: 15 Feb 2024

ERO’s new report highlights what teachers can do to provide quality maths education for New Zealand’s learners in the first years of school. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

Supporting science teaching with new science reports

Published: 18 May 2021

Science is important - we rely on scientific thinking in almost every endeavour in our modern society. Covid-19 has shown us how important science is and, with science-related issues such as climate change and vaccines increasingly impacting on society, it is essential that we have high quality science education. 

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

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

New school principals need more support, particularly new principals in small schools, ERO research shows

Published: 13 Jul 2023

Principals are crucial to the quality of education. A growing number of principals across New Zealand are new to the role. In 2023, more than a third of principals have been in the role for less than five years, an increase from a quarter in 2014. New research from ERO has found that only a quarter of new principals feel prepared when they start.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Preparing and supporting new principals - a guide for school boards

Published: 13 Jul 2023

ERO looked at how new principals are doing in their first five years in the role. We found that new principals are not always well prepared, and many are not confident about their new range of responsibilities. School boards can make a big difference in setting new principals up for success.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Overseas Trained Teachers: Adjusting to living and working in New Zealand

Published: 19 Jun 2020

This report serves to shine some light on the experiences of teachers who have come from overseas to teach in New Zealand. It is based on data collected from a voluntary survey of teachers and principals of the school where they are employed.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Schools
Content type:
Research
Topics:
Wellbeing
Teaching
New Zealand Curriculum
Pedagogy

Challenging behaviours in New Zealand classrooms at critical levels

Published: 28 Mar 2024

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that disruptive behaviour in New Zealand’s classrooms is worse than other countries, is a rapidly growing problem, and is getting in the way of learning. 

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

New Zealand’s learners from ethnic communities achieve well at school but encounter widespread racism, new research finds

Published: 15 Mar 2023

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) looked at how school classrooms up and down the country are becoming more ethnically diverse and found that by 2043, a quarter of our learners will be from ethnic communities. In Auckland nearly half (43 percent) of learners will be Asian.

Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article
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

High-quality early childhood education matters

Published: 29 Apr 2021

ERO is updating its approach to review and evaluation, initially in centre-based early childhood services

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article

New research from ERO highlights impact of Covid-19 on education sector

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.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools
Content type:
News article
Topics:
COVID-19
Schools
Learners
Students