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Leading schools that include all learners
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Strategies to ensure all students are supported to engage, participate, and achieve in ways that honour and value diversity.
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Understanding inclusive practices
Key concepts, terms, and Government priorities relating to inclusion.
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Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
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Strategies for action
Three key strategies for developing an inclusive school where all students are supported and diversity is valued
Leading with moral purpose
All educational leaders, including middle and senior leaders, are responsible for leading a school that that values the presence, participation and achievement of every learner.
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The educational leadership model (ELM).
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Demonstrate a commitment to inclusion
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Model the use of inclusive language
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Have high expectations for all learners
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Partner with external agencies
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Meeting students' learning support needs
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Strategically resourcing for inclusive practices
Principals, with the support of effective boards of trustees, coordinate time, money, people and actions to maximise the effectiveness of school-wide inclusive practices, including harnessing expertise in the community.
These guidelines are a valuable resource for boards on how to show moral leadership and build an inclusive school with confidence.
Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
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Identify and plan how to meet students' learning support needs
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Plan actions and resourcing with BOT
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Support professional learning in inclusive practices
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Leading learning to support inclusive practices
How do we lead learning in inclusive practices “where everybody’s in and not excluded intentionally, by design, or unintentionally?” (Edgar Schmidt).
Edgar Schmidt discusses how to create a school district where everybody’s deliberately included.
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Review inclusive practices, transitions, and pathways
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Provide vision and active oversight of teaching and learning
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Make decisions informed by data
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Support collaborative planning and problem solving
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Key resources
Implementing an inclusive curriculum
From the NZ Curriculum Online resource: Inclusive Practice and the School Curriculum
Publisher: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
What an inclusive school looks like
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This information sheet describes what an inclusive school looks like and feels like. Use it to help reflect upon and review the inclusive values, policies, and practices in your school.
Publisher: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
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Responding to neurodiversity in the education context: An integrative literature review
This report presents findings of an integrative literature review designed as one response to Priority 4: Flexible supports for neurodiverse children and young people, articulated in the New Zealand Learning Support Action Plan 2019 – 2025. The review explored research and other resources to identify new or innovative strategies or approaches to neurodiversity with the potential to be implemented in primary and secondary school contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Publisher: Donald Beasley Institute
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Poipoia ngā ākonga kanorau ā-roro
This report provides a Māori-centric view of ākonga kanorau ā-roro, learner neurodiversity. It will help practitioners and educators to work with ākonga kanorau ā-roro and their whānau to provide culturally responsive and effective education and care. It also points to a need to build on the perspectives in the report by sharing oral knowledge and practices that work in today’s education context.
Publisher: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
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Guide to Index of the guide: Leading inclusive schools
Understand:
Strategies for action:
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Leading with moral purposeShow suggestions for Leading with moral purpose
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Strategically resourcing for inclusive practicesShow suggestions for Strategically resourcing for inclusive practices
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Leading learning to support inclusive practicesShow suggestions for Leading learning to support inclusive practices
