Bay of Plenty branch

Bay of Plenty Branch meeting 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm, Rotorua
Speaker: Dr Margie Hohepa, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, ‘Best Evidence Synthesis: Educational Leadership - He Toa Takitini’
Location: Ihenga, Tangatarua Marae, Waiariki Institute of Technology - Whare Takiura, Mokoia Drive, Rotorua
Chair: Reynold

Margie was a member of the team (with Vivianne Robinson and Claire Lloyd) commissioned by the Ministry to conduct a systematic review of national and international research that linked leadership to learning. The Best Evidence Synthesis of Educational Leadership - Schools is currently in press. Margie has kindly agreed to explain the main findings with special reference to leadership in Mâori settings.

You are most welcome to attend this priviledged briefing and to bring colleagues you believe will be interested. The Leadership BES is clearly a world first and will inform research and practice in the years ahead. It is a 'must know'.

Margie’s presentation will focus on three important features of the concept of educational leadership presented in the BES Leadership – Schooling; (a) positional leadership, (b) distributed leadership, and (c) leadership embedded in specific tasks and situations. In the everyday context of schooling, the BES will emphasise that both positional and distributed forms of leadership are compatible with maintaining a strong focus on the principal. Why? Because the principal’s key tasks include not only leading a team but also building and sustaining the leadership of others.

Margie will also show that the three features are significant when considering Mâori educational leadership. Both traditional and contemporary Mâori leadership involves recognition of mana, which is partly related to position. By including distributed leadership the BES recognises how leadership may be exercised by anyone whose ideas or actions are influential in the context of specific tasks and activities. The approach to leadership explained will include the critical leadership roles of Mâori parents, whânau and other community and iwi members in the development of Kaupapa Mâori educational sites. This approach also echoes the importance that Mâori place on leadership that gets things done.

All Members and Friends of BOP and Waikato Branches are most welcome to bring colleagues with them. One condition: Please confirm attendance or otherwise by calling Reynold on 07 346 8553 or emailing him at reynold@reynoldmacpherson.ac.nz to help manage the event. Thanks.

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