The Education Group

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Note: The words in italics are keywords that categorise the paper.

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


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

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

1999
Schools at Risk – Dilemmas and Solutions (Hawk & Hill) Schools at risk or in decline

1999
The Powerful Potential of Research as a Tool in Change Management (Hill & Hawk) Research

2000
Achieving and Sustaining an Effective Learning Culture in a School (Hawk) Sustainability, Student Achievement, Professional Development and Coaching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2003
Coaching Teachers: Effective Professional Development but difficult to achieve (Hawk & Hill) Professional Development and Coaching

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

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

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

2008
Developing partnerships for improving student outcomes
(Knight, Kirton and McCaulay)

2008
Sustaining changed teacher practice in numeracy
(Knight) Numeracy

2008
Community involvement in raising student achievement
(Taylor)

Contributions to other publications :

1990
Collaborative decision-making in Education (Ramsay, Harold, Hawk, Kaai, Marriot & Poskitt) Parent partnerships and collaboration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other published reports:

1996
Towards Making Achieving Cool – Achievement in Multi-Cultural High Schools Part 1 (Hawk & Hill) AIMHI, Maori and Pasifika, Student Achievement

Towards Making Achieving Cool – Achievement in Multi-Cultural High Schools Part 2 (Hawk & Hill) AIMHI, Maori and Pasifika, Student Achievement

1998
Achieving is Cooler than it was - Achievement in Multi-Cultural High Schools (Hawk & Hill) AIMHI, Maori and Pasifika, Student Achievement

2000
Making a Difference in the Classroom – Effective Teaching Practice in Low Decile Multi-Cultural Schools (Hill & Hawk) AIMHI, Maori and Pasifika, Student Achievement

These are available from the Ministry of Education website (http://www.minedu.govt.nz/). Both are found under ‘Research’ on the right hand side list and then under ‘Maori Education’