Publications
Our educational leadership group collaborates both nationally and interntionally and outcomes of our research are published across a range of formats. A more complete list of publications can be accessed via individual university profiles (see People).
Leadership though times of crisis: Special Issue
The leadership group work is featured in this guest edited voume of the Journal of Leading and Managing
Equity Doesn’t Just Happen: Stories of Education Leaders Working Toward Social Justice
Dr. Jo Smith and Elisabeth Crowell Kim
This volume offers personal narratives education leaders engaged in ongoing pursuits of equity, offering glimmers of hope through glimpses into the experiences of education leaders in the US and New Zealand. The chapters present the inherent complexities of enacting change in schools and school systems, and the blunders that happen along the way so that others might build ideas of how to engage with communities in meaningful and productive ways, and how to keep stoking the passion and dedication to face the next hurdle, and to pause and celebrate small successes along the way.
Understanding Change Through the Lens of Paradoxical Tensions
Dr. Megan Welton
Megan’s research reveals that navigating the tensions is critical for adaptive change in schools. Read more to understand how educational leaders navigate the tensions inherent in change
Leading education into the furture
Prof. Deidre Le Fevre
Effective leadership is key to addressing enduring education issues in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. Our education systems need to be responsive within rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex contexts. Education faces significant societal and global challenges so this short article is designed to provoke critical and urgent conversations. It is hoped that the ideas this article provokes in discussion with leaders, policy makers and others may lead to the development and implementation of effective policy and include an intentional focus on what we need to stop doing, what we need to keep doing, and what we need to start doing.
The Challenge of Complexity: Adaptive Expertise and the Potential of Metacognitive School Leaders
Dr. Kaye Twyford
Metacognition is key to leading with adaptive expertise, yet many educators are not highly metacognitive . Find out how and why metacognition as part of an adaptive expertise approach can empower your leadership and those you work with in schools.
It's not Rocket Science - a Guide to the School Improvement Cycle
Linda Bendikson & Assoc. Prof. Frauke Meyer
This book is an easy-to-read, practical guide to effectively leading school improvement. It walks leaders through each step of ‘The School Improvement Cycle’ developed by Bendikson and Meyer. The authors show how to make the complex work of improving student learning and outcomes at least somewhat simpler. A range of evidence from international research and the authors’ own research and development work in schools explains the cycle and illustrate it.
Leading curriculum realisation through schools as learning organisations in and beyond times of crisis
Louise Stoll & Assoc. Prof. Claire Sinnema
In this piece Louise and Claire propose a model of curriculum that is fit for the future through it’s explicit attention to the addressing the coalescence of challenges of
various types (social, environmental, technological, economic, public health-related, and political) and consider
how schools as learning organisations can support curriculum realisation.