Leading schools that include all learners
Strategies to ensure all students are supported to engage, participate, and achieve in ways that honour and value diversity.
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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.
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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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
Success for All – Every school, Every child
Read time: 9 min
This strategy has been developed to support the vision of a fully inclusive education system.
Publisher: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga
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What an inclusive school looks like
Read time: 5 min
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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Wellbeing for success: A resource for schools
Read time: 34 min
This Education Review Office (ERO) resource has been developed to help schools evaluate and improve student well-being. It highlights the need for systems, people, and initiatives to respond to wellbeing concerns for students who need additional support.
Publisher: Education Review Office | Te Tari Arotake Matauranga
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
Index for Inclusion Network: Developing a framework of values
The framework of values approach is a process to spur communities from identifying shared values to action. The ideas and processes can be used as whole-school initiatives or by individual teachers, managers, and boards of trustees. This tool is part of the UK's Index for Inclusion.
Publisher: Index for Inclusion Network
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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
