Date
28 March 2023
11444 [leading-an-inclusive-school.jpg]

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.

On this page:

On this page:

Current page section: Leading inclusive schools

Go to top of current page: Leading inclusive schools

Show list of page sections

Understanding inclusive practices

Key concepts, terms, and Government priorities relating to inclusion.

11932 [Meela-Rebecca.JPG]

Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

Source:
Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

Summary of important concepts:

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.

Five suggestions for implementing this strategy:

  1. Demonstrate a commitment to inclusion

    Includes:

    • Video
    • Resources
  2. Model the use of inclusive language

    Includes:

    • Video
    • Resources
  3. Have high expectations for all learners

    Includes:

    • Video
    • Resources
  4. Partner with whānau

    Includes:

    • Video
    • Resources
  5. Partner with external agencies

    Includes:

    • Video
    • Resources

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.

8747 [Effective-governance.png

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

Source:
Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

Four suggestions for implementing this strategy:

Leading learning to support inclusive practices

How do we lead learning with a strengths based approach?

Video hosted on Youtube http://youtu.be/NaDaK4zqx7c

Leona Morrison, a supervisor in the Inclusive Learning unit, talks about a new district document that spotlights the strengths-based approach.

Four suggestions for implementing this strategy:

Key resources

Implementing an inclusive curriculum

Implementing an inclusive curriculum

From the New Zealand Curriculum Online website, Inclusive Practice and the School Curriculum

Publisher: The New Zealand Curriculum Online

File

What an inclusive school looks like

This information sheet describes what an inclusive school looks 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

File

Responding to neurodiversity in the education context: An integrative literature review

This report presents findings of an integrative literature review designed as one response to Priority 4: Flexible supports for neurodiverse children and young people, articulated in the New Zealand Learning Support Action Plan 2019 – 2025. The review explored research and other resources to identify new or innovative strategies or approaches to neurodiversity with the potential to be implemented in primary and secondary school contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Publisher: Donald Beasley Institute

Akonga Kanorau a roro cover

Poipoia ngā ākonga kanorau ā-roro

This report provides a Māori-centric view of ākonga kanorau ā-roro, learner neurodiversity. It will help practitioners and educators to work with ākonga kanorau ā-roro and their whānau to provide culturally responsive and effective education and care. It also points to a need to build on the perspectives in the report by sharing oral knowledge and practices that work in today’s education context.

More options

Browse all guides

Top