Authority backs charter schools - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
Authority spokesman Pem Bird said a group of supporters from the education authority would be making a submission in Wellington this week in support of partnership schools. The Iwi Education Authority will be supporting charter schools in a bid to ...

Our chance to lead the world - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Every day teachers and students are solving problems and creating new ways of doing things in our classrooms and online. One Kiwi science ... We will need to be innovative in our thinking in the home and classroom to realise these opportunities. Nikki ...

Empowering ahead - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
His own foundation funded a project, Measures of Effective Teaching (Met) that worked with 3000 classroom teachers to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system to help teachers improve. The report concluded that there were ...

Fears merger pupils will go into prefabs - The Press

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The Press
No child will be put into classrooms of a lesser standard if school merger and closure proposals go ahead, the Ministry of Education says. But Christchurch principals are sceptical about the guarantee and do not believe the mergers and closures can be ...

Retiring teacher had a ball - Taranaki Daily News

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Taranaki Daily News
She said being outside rather than stuck in a classroom helped curb naughty behaviour. She said PE played a vital role in students' development. "Team situations make kids communicate better, they learn respect and it's something different from just ...

Taxis just like Novopay: teacher - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Taxis to and from school for some special-needs students are paid for by the Ministry of Education. At the end of last year, it tendered the contracts, changing providers in areas including central Auckland, the North Shore, Tauranga, Whangarei and ...

Sale of vacant school sites could reach $41m - TVNZ

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TVNZ
The Government could pocket more than $41 million if it sells the sites of all Christchurch schools it proposes to close under its sweeping education reform. But with some merging schools not due to relocate until 2016, it could be years before for ...