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Participants will have a rich and engaging year of leadership learning covering:

• a leadership for learning inquiry, focused on their own leadership of colleagues in raising the achievement of students in the school, with a particular focus on Māori and Pasifika students, and students with special needs.

• an online reflective blog journal and active participation in the NAPP online community throughout the year

• a national hui

• four online modules of work based on the role of the principal

• three personalised inquiry coaching sessions with an experienced facilitator

• peer coaching

• contributing to a professional learning group located in My Portfolio and four regional meetings

• shadowing leaders in another school.

Reading includes:

• School Leadership Best Evidence Synthesis

• Tū Rangatira

• Kiwi Leadership for Principals.

About the online modules

The four online modules focus on school operating systems in the New Zealand context and show how to link those systems effectively to student achievement.

• Using a mix of shared online interaction and individualised self-managed learning, the modules explore: school contexts, resourcing, personnel and employment, and strategies and planning.

• They require online interaction with other aspiring principals and are structured to ensure that everyone expands their online skills and their capability in using social media tools to organise their learning.

• A wide range of resources will be used, including those on this website.

Aspirants will build their online capacities in: prioritising learning time as and when it is available, following their own defined learning paths, relating learning about school systems to the everyday processes around them.