The Education Group

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AIMHI

2003
Achieving is Cool: What we learned from the AIMHI Project to help schools more effectively meet the needs of their students (Hill & Hawk)

2000
Making a Difference in the Classroom – Effective Teaching Practice in Low Decile Multi-Cultural Schools (Hill & Hawk)

2000
Making a Difference in the Classroom - Effective Teaching Practice in Low Decile Multi-Cultural Schools (Hawk & Hill)

1998
Aiming for Student Achievement – How teachers can understand and better meet the needs of Pacific Island and Maori students (Hill & Hawk)

1998
Teaching Students under Stress – Implications for schools and teachers in multi-cultural schools (Hawk & Hill)

1998
Achieving is Cooler than it was - Achievement in Multi-Cultural High Schools (Hawk & Hill)

1997
Towards Making Achieving Cool – Some policy implications for students in low decile schools (Hawk & Hill)

1996
Towards Making Achieving Cool - Achievement in Multi-Cultural High Schools (Hawk & Hill)

Assessment

2010
Sustaining improvements in student achievement. Myth or reality? (Lai, McNaughton, Hsiao with Mose, Hall, Knight & Gray)

2010
How do teachers make overall teacher judgments (OTJs) and how are they supported to make sound and accurate OTJs? (Mitchell & Poskitt)

2009
Reporting student achievement against national standards: discussion paper on reporting to parents examples
(Mitchell)

2007
Assess to Learn professional development: impact on teacher learning (Poskitt & Taylor)

2007
Assess to Learn professional development: great gains for teachers (Poskitt & Taylor)

2008
National Education Findings of Assess to Learn (AtoL) Report (Taylor & Poskitt)

2004
Teachers Learning from Student Achievement Data in Writing (Limbrick, Knight,Evans, Funaki,Kirton, and McCaulay)

2003
An evaluation of the quality of teacher feedback to students – a study of numeracy teaching in the primary education sector (Knight)

2003
Teacher Feedback to students in Numeracy lessons: are students getting good value? (Knight)

2002
Researching the Development of National Exemplars – impact on teaching and learning (Poskitt, Anthony, Brown, Goulton, Taylor)

2002
Research on the Development of National Exemplars – implications for teacher education in New Zealand (Poskitt, Anthony, Brown & Taylor)

2001
The Challenge of Formative Assessment in Secondary Classrooms (Hawk & Hill)

2000
Four Conceptual Clues to Motivating Students – Learning from the practice of effective teachers in low decile, multi-cultural schools (Hill & Hawk)

2000
Assessment for Accountability, Reporting and Improving Learning: Have we got the balance right? (Knight)

1993
Developing Partnerships – Collaboration between Teachers and Parents (Ramsay, Hawk, Harold, Marriot & Poskitt)

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Curriculum - Mathematics

2009
Sustaining Improved Student Outcomes and Teaching Practice in Mathematics. Doctorate of Education thesis - University of Auckland
(Knight)

2008
Sustaining changed teacher practice in numeracy
(Knight)

Curriculum - English

2005
Close reading of students' writing: What teachers learn about writing (Limbrick & Knight)

Schools at Risk/Decline

2008
School Decline: Predictors, Process and Intervention. Doctorate of Education thesis - Massey University
(Hawk)

1999
Schools at Risk – Dilemmas and Solutions (Hawk & Hill)

Strategic Planning

2001
Making a Shared Vision a Shared Reality – the Strategic Planning Process (Hill, Hawk & Taylor) Strategic Planning

Teacher Professional Learning/Development

2007
Effective Professional Development: Making a difference in terms of Improving Student Learning Outcomes
(Higgie)

2007
Sustaining professional development: rhetoric or reality? (Poskitt & Taylor)

2005
Otara: The Learning Community: teachers' reflections on professional development in writing (Limbrick, Knight, Evans, Funaki, Kirton and McCaulay) (Word document)

2005
The contested notion of sustainability: possibility or pipe dream for numeracy reforms
(Knight)

2001
Professional Development – what makes it work (Hill, Hawk & Taylor)

2000
Achieving and Sustaining an Effective Learning Culture in a School (Hawk)

Student-Teacher Relationships

2002
The Importance of the Teacher/Student Relationship for Maori and Pasifika Students (Hawk, Tumama Cowley, Hill & Sutherland)

2001
Relationships – the critical factor in teaching Maori and Pasifika students (Hawk, Tumama Cowley, Hill & Sutherland)

Transition

2004
Transition traumas, traps, turning points and triumphs: Putting student needs first (Hawk & Hill)

2001
Troubled Transition – how to ensure that educational transition points do not interrupt student learning (Hawk & Hill)

2000
Bridging Educational Islands – Making the Aotearoa/NZ system a “seamless experience for students” (Hawk & Hill)

The Education Group

**AIMHI**

**Assessment**

**Change Management**

**Coaching and Appraisal**

**Community and Partnership**

**Curriculum - Mathematics**

**Curriculum - English**

**Schools at Risk/Decline**

**Strategic Planning**

**Teacher Professional Learning/Development**

**Student-Teacher Relationships**

**Transition**