This literature review examines the concept of high-expectations leadership within educational settings. We analysed 15 studies to explore:  

• the notion of having high expectations  
• the relationship between school culture and teacher expectations 
• key practices related to high-expectations leadership  
• enabling and constraining factors.  

Findings highlight the importance of a broad concept of high expectations for students that spans across all areas of student development, including academic achievement ...

Feedback on the draft Mathematics and Statistics learning area content for Years 9–13 was gathered from 27 January to 28 April 2025, primarily through a Ministry of Education online feedback form comprising closed demographic questions, and 12 open-ended feedback questions. The resulting sample was self-selected. 

There were 85 responses to the 2025 feedback form, from schools (76%) or from other people and groups (24%) most of whom had education-related ...

This report presents findings from analysis of feedback on the draft English learning area for Years 7–13 carried out by NZCER for the Ministry of Education (the Ministry). The feedback was gathered from 31 March to 13 June 2025 through an online survey and submissions sent directly to the Ministry.

There were 296 survey responses. Most of these (82%) were from schools, and a smaller proportion (18%) came from ...

NZCER has run a National Survey of Primary Schools regularly since 1989, with the last survey of primary school teachers taking place in 2019. This enables us to monitor trends over time and assess teacher sentiment about key issues facing the sector. 

This report presents findings from a survey of 639 teachers from 148 schools. The responses are nationally representative by School Equity Index groups and broadly representative by area ...

KiVa is a research-based, whole-school programme developed in Finland that addresses bullying through three integrated strands: prevention (regular, age-targeted lessons, and school-wide culture building to shift norms), intervention (clear, consistent procedures led by a trained staff team), and monitoring (ongoing feedback—typically via student surveys—to inform practice and celebrate progress) (Herkama et al., 2017; KiVa Program, n.d.). 

Because bullying dynamics can extend beyond individual classrooms and even beyond single schools—into ...

New curriculum content for teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories (ANZH) and Te Takanga o te Wā (TToTW) was gazetted in 2022, for schools and kura to begin using in 2023. The release of this curriculum content followed prolonged campaigning and advocacy from historians, ākonga, learners, kaiako, teachers, and members of the public who had called for better and more consistent teaching of our local and national histories.

This qualitative research ...

This evaluation report is intended to support Ministry of Education’s decision making about the future of the NEX initiative. The evaluation findings also provide useful insights that contribute to Teacher Development Aotearoa's review of their leadership of the initiative and will be of interest to current and future NEX leaders. Three overarching questions framed the evaluation:

1. To what extent is the NEX initiative achieving desired outcomes and having an ...

In this study, NZCER provides a snapshot of how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging in teaching and learning within Aotearoa New Zealand’s primary classrooms (Years 5–8).  

This report contains survey responses from a cohort of 266 primary school teachers who were disproportionately interested in generative AI; and from a second cohort of 147 students spread across four case study schools.  

He kitenga | Findings

Taken together, the ...

This study, conducted in partnership with Hutt City Kindergartens, explores story sharing - a critical aspect of early literacy development. We studied the naturalistic story interactions of tamariki aged 2–5 years, kaiako, and whānau within six equity-funded kindergarten settings and family homes. Key themes evident in our findings were:

• that stories are diverse and multimodal;  
• story sharing is embedded in cultural contexts;  
• and story sharing takes place ...

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Ko tā te pūrongo nei he arotake i te mana tautika e ai ki te tirohanga o te kura mana motuhake, ā, ki Te Kura Māori o Ngā Tapuwae (“Ngā Tapuwae”). E ai ki a Fortune mā (2024), ko te whakapuakanga tika mō te mana tautika e ai ki te tirohanga Māori, ko te mana motuhake, ko te ...