- Published: 02 Apr 2019
Collaboration in practice: insights into implementation
This case study report features experiences of three Kāhui Ako and includes the strategies and approaches used to create, build, and strengthen collaboration between schools and early learning services to improve outcomes for learners.
- Published: 02 Apr 2019
Collaboration in practice: insights into implementation
This case study report features experiences of three Kāhui Ako and includes the strategies and approaches used to create, build, and strengthen collaboration between schools and early learning services to improve outcomes for learners.
- Published: 28 May 2018
Case studies - Aotea College Case Study: Improving Māori student wellbeing and achievement
Improvement in Action brings to life ERO’s School Evaluation Indicators and illustrates what works to achieve successful outcomes for all children and young people in the education system.
The case studies complement the video sequences in Improvement in Action.
- Published: 11 Apr 2018
Resource Teachers: Learning and behaviour governing and managing RTLB clusters
The findings of this evaluation highlight improvements to the quality and consistency of the RTLB service, especially in overall governance and management.
- Published: 25 Jan 2017
Communities of Learning Kāhui Ako - Collaboration to Improve Learner Outcomes
This publication is designed to support Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako by bringing together research findings about effective collaboration in education communities. It is supported by the publication Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako: working towards collaborative practice.
- Published: 25 Jan 2017
Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako: Working towards collaborative practice
An additional resource to Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako: Collaboration to Improve Learner Outcomes. This resource is designed to support CoL | Kāhui Ako as they work towards effective collaborative practice. It is framed around key questions in each of the seven effective practice areas and is able to be used both as evidence-based progressions and as a useful internal evaluation tool.
- Published: 25 Jan 2017
Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako in action
This is the first of a series of iterative reports which draw together what ERO knows about CoL | Kāhui Ako, as they move from establishment to implementation.
- Published: 11 Dec 2015
Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Early Childhood Services
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).
- Published: 19 Jun 2015
Continuity of learning transitions from early childhood services to schools
This report looks at how well New Zealand early childhood services and schools are supporting transitions to school and highlights what's important and examples of good practice.
- Published: 24 Oct 2013
Use of Equity Funding in Pacific Early Childhood Services
This national report is about how effectively 15 Pacific early childhood services used Equity Funding to increase Pacific children's participation and support them to develop their language, culture and identity.
We have also published a companion report - Use of Equity Funding in Early Childhood Services.
- Published: 10 Jul 2013
Including Students with High Needs Primary Schools
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.
- Published: 31 May 2013
Accelerating the Progress of Priority Learners in Primary Schools
This national report presents the findings of ERO’s recent evaluation about the extent to which primary schools were using effective strategies to improve outcomes for priority groups of learners. In this report ‘priority learners’ refers to Māori, Pacific, special needs, and students from low income families, who are not achieving at or above National Standards.
- Published: 09 Sep 2012
Including Students with High Needs: School Questionnaire Responses (2)
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.
- Published: 01 Apr 2012
Including Students with Special Needs: School Questionnaire Responses
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.
- Published: 30 Jun 2010
Including Students with High Needs
ERO evaluated how well schools included students with high needs. Approximately three percent of the student population have significant physical, sensory, neurological, psychiatric, behavioural or intellectual impairment. ERO’s evaluation showed that approximately half of the schools in the study demonstrated inclusive practice, while 30 percent had ‘pockets of inclusive practice’ and 20 percent had few inclusive practices.
- Published: 01 Sep 2008
Partners in Learning: Parents' Voices
ERO is interested in what happens in the classroom and also in how parents and the community can help in the education of school students. We have therefore evaluated the way schools engage their parents, whānau and community. The result is a collection of three reports on different aspects of Partners in Learning: the findings of the evaluation; examples of good practice; and the voices of parents. This report sets out the views of parents and others in the community about their role in the education of their children.
- Published: 01 Sep 2008
Partners in Learning: Good Practice
This report complements ERO’s major evaluation, Partners in Learning: Schools’ Engagement with Parents, Whānau and Communities, published in May 2008. It presents case studies of eight schools, identified during ERO reviews, that were successful in engaging with their parents, whānau and the wider community. The report also discusses key factors that contribute to the success of this engagement.
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