EXPLORING COLLABORATION IN ACTION: KAHUKURA COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Monitoring and evaluation for improvement Trustees were keen to have more information about the effectiveness of the CoP. To achieve this Kahukura could: • further analyse the NPDL and NZCER data to determine if any school’s students had made more progress than others and, if so, explore what they did that may be different and have it shared widely • use the wellbeing database to regularly monitor changes in the wellbeing status of students across Kahukura as a consequence of interventions with individual students • analyse data or groups of students to determine whether progress had been made on equity • share assessment practices between schools leveraging off those that are doing this particularly well, for example, those that integrated aspects of learning and wellbeing into their systems • choose one focus area to explore in depth and: – require each school to have their teacher inquiry into practice in that focus area – assess levels of workforce understanding in relation to the required practice change, along with their engagement commitment and ongoing buy-in. A regular staff engagement survey across Kahukura schools might prove useful here. – systematically adopt processes for classroom observation and feedback by peers within and across schools – collate information from the inquiries across schools, and surface what shared practice had worked, for whom and in what context – use data to identify what value had been added and what is still to be gained. • use the insights gained to inform next steps for resourcing, development, support and consolidation of practice and to celebrate successes.
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