This research report, produced for National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa (National Library), focused on a Pūtoi Rito Communities of Readers project carried out in Dargaville in 2023-24. 

Pūtoi Rito is a National Library initiative that works with communities to design, develop, and deliver support for reading engagement among children and young people. The Dargaville project focused on young people during their primary and intermediate school years, as ...

Ready for Partnership? will help you to create written or visual texts which welcome ākonga Māori. We hope that this tool will give you ways of reflecting on texts as you create them, before you then go on to do further work with kaupapa Māori colleagues. 

Ready for Partnership? has two sections. Section 1 provides seven lenses which focus on the ways in which we’re using various Māori cultural perspectives ...

Poipoia ngā tamariki: How whānau and teachers support tamariki Māori to be successful in learning and education is the third COMPASS report from the collaboration between NZCER and Professor Melinda Webber (The University of Auckland), on the analysis of data collected through her national research project Kia tū rangatira ai: Living, thriving and succeeding in education. 

This latest kaupapa Māori study analyses data from Kia tū rangatira ai to ...

In 2022, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) identified a range of schools at which the University Entrance (UE) attainment of ākonga Māori and Pacific students was at least 10% higher than their decile (now EQI) band average. 

In 2023, NZQA asked Rangahau Mātauranga o Aotearoa NZCER to work with six of these higher UE attainment schools to explore how they support ākonga Māori and Pacific students to attain UE ...

"Those concerned about the future of te reo Māori must work to ensure that the values listed in the Māori Language Act become a reality for all who call Aotearoa New Zealand home. We must ensure that they are not simply the aspirations of a few, but are threads firmly woven into the social fabric of the country."

This publication is a presentation given by Dr Richard Benton, the founder ...

In 2023, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER), on contract to the Ministry of Education, undertook research to assess schools’ responses to the Equity Index (EQI) and the associated key questions: 

1. To what extent are schools/kura implementing initiatives, practices, and resources designed to address socioeconomic barriers? (baseline)  
2. To what extent are schools/kura changing practices or expenditure decisions to address socioeconomic barriers in response to funding changes resulting from ...

Since 2007, Springboard Trust has been supporting school leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand with the 10-month Strategic Leadership for Principals Programme (SLPP) to develop their effective strategic planning capability.  

In 2022, Springboard Trust piloted the Balanced Scorecard for Schools Aotearoa (BSSA) professional development programme for those who had completed the SLPP. This introduced the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) tool, developed initially to support businesses (Kaplan & Norton, 1992) but modified to ...

In 2023 Auckland Council’s Sustainable Schools team piloted a project called Mana Ora: Students Decarbonising Schools. This project aimed to empower students, with support, to plan and implement action projects linked to decarbonisation within their schools. The five theme areas below provided project inspiration. 

Eighteen Mana Ora projects were implemented in early childhood, primary, and secondary schools. NZCER was engaged to evaluate the impact of Mana Ora in 13 ...