NZCER PATs a health check of how our teachers are going and how the teaching and learning looks in the school. Staines are not helpful for teachers The data is about how the teachers are moving the kids learning PAT data comes in to challenge you and tell you what is going on in classrooms Videos on NZCER to help prepare kids for the tests PAT is a fidelity check on our internal sources PATS are not tests of the curriculum, tests of the subject area How children move though the progression of learning has not changed (despite curriculum changes) The scale score is what we need to use. PAT scale position and progress benchmarks Stanines are useful to see our school bell curve. In any one test there is a two year stretch of question difficultly. Adaptive tests can be given to all kids. Adaptive Maths. Th numbers above the line are n to gaps - they are next steps. Anything in brackets is the norm data Student Projectors by Progress Ca...
Leading Strategically Faculty: Elizabeth City Time: 8:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Session Overview In this session we will take up the question of how to lead strategically amidst all the competing demands on your time and energy. We will use several hands-on activities to help you diagnose the current state of your strategic leadership and identify areas to strengthen it, with the goal of helping you prioritize, as well as supporting you to build others’ strategic capacity. Required Reading* * “ Introduction Download Introduction ” (p. 1-10) from Leading Strategically: Achieving Ambitions Goals in Education by Elizabeth A. City and Rachel E. Curtis. Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, MA. 2025. Notes from Liz's session Which of the five elements of strategic leadership do you feel strongest in? How has that shifted over your career? Relationships and context. *relationships across bodies of work across the school....