Tuesday 12 February 2019

Research presentation

Manaiakalani sense-making session with student achievement data.

It’s been a great start to the year but it wouldn’t be a new academic year without looking back at our student data from 2018 and using this to celebrate, set goals, define our inquiries and understand which areas we can do more in.

Patrick Snedden
Reminded us of our journey. He share with us about the role we had played and the people who came before us played in creating Manaiakalani as it is today. We are about big change, creating transformative practice. Having data form this practice collected and analysed mean we can be critical of were we are at and see that we have achieved so much. Manaiakalani started here with 12 school and brave teachers and now the pedagogy has spread with over 100 school engaging in learn, create, share pedagogy.

Next the Woolf Fisher team shared with us the student achievement data for 2018.

Rebecca said “we are going to start today a long conversation which will continue this year.”

It was interesting listening to the data from the junior school. There biggest thing I noticed was the entry level word writing. The norm was that students could write fewer than 5 words when arriving at school. There was good progress during the year however they are skill quite far off the norm for New Zealand.

Maths in the junior school was interesting it looks as though many students get stuck in the counting (stage four) however at year three there were more students pushing into stages 5 and 6.

Reading had a big spread however looking at the years 3 data there was a large group reading above gold. The group at purple interested me. I wondered how can we make a bigger impact on these kids to push them into the gold barrack. Reading in a higher years is interesting as students progress less than the norm. We need to continue to give reading a push as

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