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Priorities
- Ensure places of learning are safe, inclusive and free from racism, discrimination and bullying.
- Have high aspirations for every ākonga, and support these by partnering with their whānau and communities to design and deliver education that responds to their needs, and sustains their identities, languages, and cultures.
- Reduce barriers to education for all, including for Māori and Pacific ākonga, disabled ākonga and those with learning support needs.
- Ensure every ākonga gains sound foundation skills, including language, literacy and numeracy.
- Meaningfully incorporate te reo Māori and tikanga Māori into the everyday life of the place of learning.
- Develop staff to strengthen teaching, leadership and learner support capability across the education workforce.
- Collaborate with industries and employers to ensure ākonga have the skills, knowledge and pathways to succeed in work.
- Enhance the contribution of research and mātauranga Māori in addressing local and global challenges (TES only).
Education Work Programme items
Priority 1
- Delivering Te Hurihanganui to address racism, strengthen equity and accelerate Māori educational achievement and wellbeing.
Priority 2
- Investing in professional learning and development to raise critical consciousness and support cultural capabilities, including Te Hurihanganui.
- Implementing Toikuranui to develop local education initiatives with iwi, and Pae Aronui to support great partnerships between whānau and education services.
Priority 3
- Support places of learning to build their capability to identify and understand ākonga needs and barriers.
Priority 4
- Providing high quality Māori-medium education, including developing a long-term Education Workforce Strategy and Rāngai Māori, a Network Plan, and reviewing funding rates.
Priority 5
- Allocating $200 million to support ākonga Māori and whānau to reconnect and succeed in education post COVID-19 and strengthen the integration of te reo Māori into all students’ learning.
- Strengthening the delivery of Māori Language in Education, including support for the education workforce, resource development, and information for ākonga and their whānau.
- Delivering Kauwhata Reo, the online hub for te reo Māori resources, and the development of localised te reo Māori curriculum resources through Te Aho Ngārahu.
Priority 6
- Extending Te Ahu o te reo Māori to support the education workforce to integrate te reo Māori into their practice.
Priority 1
- Implement the actions committed to in the Action Plan for Pacific Education.
- Investing in and supporting the development of programmes and pathways for learning in Pacific languages.
Priority 2
- Deliver locally focused PLD priorities, with a focus on cultural capability, inclusion and critical consciousness.
- Deliver Talanoa Ako programme to support Pacific families.
- Developing professional learning resources based on the Tapasā: Cultural competencies framework for teachers of Pacific learners.
- Supporting the development of programmes and pathways for learning in Pacific languages.
Priority 3
- Funding innovative Pacific education initiatives that respond to curriculum and wellbeing needs exacerbated by COVID-19.
- Establishing a joint initiative between Education, Health and Social Development to support Pacific families to access the services they need to thrive.
- Funding Pacific community organisations and groups to respond to the education and wellbeing needs of Pacific families and support strong relationships with education providers.
Priority 6
- Expanding the delivery of Tautai o le Moana, an educational leadership collaboration which seeks to strengthen the capabilities of those in leadership, to improve outcomes and support the wellbeing of Pacific learners.
- Deliver evidence-based, targeted, intensive Developing Mathematical Communities of Inquiry (DMIC) to schools with high numbers of Pacific learners.
Priority 1
- Amend the Education Act to make it clear that providing an emotionally and physically safe environment is a key objective of school boards.
- Introduce a mandatory code of conduct for school boards to support good governance.
Priority 2
- Amend the Education Act to require boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi as one of their key objectives.
Priority 3
- Amend the Education Act to provide for the establishment of disputes resolution panels.
- Amend the Education Act to shift responsibility for the development and consultation of enrolment schemes to the Ministry of Education.
Priority 4
- Establish a nationally based Curriculum Centre to enable effective delivery of the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
Priority 5
- Amend the Education Act to require school boards to take all reasonable steps to provide Te Reo Māori.
Priority 6
- Introducing mechanisms to improve school board of trustee skills and accountability, including mandatory training and a code of conduct.
- Advice on strengthening collaborative networks across the system, including any changes to Kāhui Ako.
- Enabling principal eligibility criteria.
- Establish a Leadership Centre within the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Priority 5
- Implement Ka Hikitia and develop skills and capacity in the education workforce.
Priority 6
- Resetting national priorities for PLD to focus on core curriculum capabilities and assessment approaches that enable a more inclusive and equitable education system.
Priority 3
- School Donations Scheme.
Priority 3
- School Property Strategy 2030.
Priority 1
- Providing tools and guidance, such as Not Part of My World toolkit, to confront and eliminate racism.
- Refreshing the Relationship and Sexuality Education Guidelines in the New Zealand Curriculum.
Priority 2
- Developing tools for rich records of learning to capture aspirations, strengths and learning progress.
- Providing tools to empower families and whānau to better understand and support education.
- Strengthening the Māori-medium pathway in partnership with Māori to ensure the education system is responsive to meeting the needs and aspirations of ākonga Māori and their whānau.
- Updating the National Curricula so Aotearoa New Zealand histories will be taught in all schools and kura.
- Strengthening how The New Zealand Curriculum supports schools to bring Te Tiriti o Waitangi to life in local curriculum.
Priority 3
- Fees-free NCEA.
- Support schools and kura to ensure appropriate qualifications and awards are in reach for all ākonga.
- NCEA change: Special Assessment Conditions.
- Support coherent secondary/tertiary learning pathways, achievement, and transition to employment.
Priority 4
- Developing tools to support kaiako | teachers’ understanding of children’s learning progress, including for early learning, school and kura entry assessment, and social-emotional learning along the pathways.
- Supporting implementation of the digital technologies and hangarau matihiko curriculum.
- Renew the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa to make clear the learning that is too important to leave to chance.
- Implement the NCEA Change Package to strengthen literacy and numeracy requirements and strengthen supports.
Priority 5
- Work closely with Māori-medium leaders to invest in Māori-Medium pathways.
- Strengthen how Te Marautanga o Aotearoa reflects te ao Māori approaches to education while continuing to reflect what whānau, hapū and iwi deem to be important for their children and young people.
- Implement the NCEA Change Package to support parity for mātauranga Māori and increasing opportunities to follow Māori-medium pathways.
Priority 7
- Develop tools and information to support ākonga to have a personalised career pathway that allows them to move between education and employment, and that supports displaced workers.
- Implement NCEA Change Package to enhance education pathways for ākonga, and support their transition into further education and employment.
- Supporting ākonga post-school through the School Leavers Toolkit.
- Valuing vocational education pathways by awarding the Prime Minister’s Vocational Education Awards.
Priority 2
- Developing a national learning support network plan to support ākonga with additional needs to transition in education.
Priority 3
- Review of alternative education, and of the stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsion (SSEE) guidelines.
- Reviewing existing supports for children and young people with high levels of need, and by fully participating in the Learning Support Delivery Model.
Priority 6
- Providing funding for teacher aides to access professional learning.
Priority 1
- Increasing access to guidance counselling for primary and secondary students.
- Allocating $50 million to provide immediate support for wellbeing issues for ākonga | learners in early learning services, schools and kura, as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, or lockdown-related hardships.
- Working with Netsafe to provide the Netsafe Schools Programme.
- Supporting the Keep It Real Online multimedia campaign.
- Providing resources for kaiako through The Respectful Relationships toolkit.
- Establishing Curriculum Leads.
Priority 2
- Empowering ākonga to have their voices heard.
Priority 3
- Free access to sanitary products.
- School Lunch programme.
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