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NZEALS FRESH AND RELEVANT 3

NZEALS CONFERENCE 2016 4

WORKPLACE CONFLICT MANAGEMENT 5

LEADING A HIGH NEED EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE 7

ACEL CONFERENCE 2015: IMPRESSIONS 11

AN INDIGENOUS VOICE FROM THE MIDDLE: SETTING THE LEARNING AGENDA 13

LEADING LIGHTS SUBMISSION DEADLINES 16

DIRECTORY: NZEALS COUNCIL 2015 17

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NZEALS LEADING LIGHTS 3Growing leadership potential

NZEALS: FRESH AND RELEVANTFROM THE PRESIDENT Juliette Hayes

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KA NUI TE MIHI KI A KOUTOU KATOANZEALS Otago welcomes you to the south for the biennial New Zealand EducationalAdministration and Leadership Society International Leadership Conference with thetheme Leading for Social Justice in Education.

Sub-themes are Leadership for Success; Leadership for Social Justice; Leadership ofHigh Needs; Schools and Early Childhood Centres.

SPEAKERS: • Professor Bruce Barnett, Co-director of the International School Leadership

Network project, University of Texas at San Antonio • Mai Chen, Managing Partner, ChenPalmer Lawyers and Adjunct Professor of Law

at Auckland University • Associate Professor Ross Notman, New Zealand director of Leadership of

High Needs Schools project, University of Otago • Dr Chris Sarra, Indigenous Educator, Director of the Stronger Smarter Institute • Presenters from New Zealand and international researchers from 10 countries

investigating leadership for social justice and high needs schools.

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Email any queries to Conference Convenor, Ross Notman: ross.notman@otago.ac.nz

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NZEALS LEADING LIGHTS 5Growing leadership potential

Gaye Greenwood

Workplace conflict management: ‘We can’t go over it we can’t go under it, we have to go through it’

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GAYE GREENWOOD

is engaged in doctoralresearch about conflict

communication, negotiationand mediation of workplace

problems in the primaryeducation sector.

Her research exploresunderstandings, perceptionsand outcomes of processes

for employment problemresolution. The study focuseson the relationships between

processes and outcomes.The research is a

multi-method study thatinvolves expert interviews,narrative case studies and

survey research. Click here to find out more.

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ROSS NOTMAN is AssociateProfessor in Education at the

University of Otago, NewZealand, and director of the

Centre for EducationalLeadership and

Administration. He is theNew Zealand project

director of an internationalresearch study, across 25

countries, into the leadershippractices of successful

school principals, and theISLDN study of leadership in

high-needs schools andcentres. Ross’s major

research interests focus onteacher and school principaldevelopment, particularly in

the field of the personaldimensions of principalship.

He can be contacted atross.notman@otago.ac.nz.

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As part of the SAS Regiment,Mark Donaldson was deployedon operations to East Timor,Afghanistan and Iraq. WhenMark’s unit was hit by anambush, nine Australians werewounded. As the battle raged on,he deliberately drew enemy fireto himself so that wounded couldbe moved to safety, then ran 80 metres across exposed ground to rescue a coalitionforce interpreter. This completedisregard for his own safetydisplayed exceptional courage.On 16 January 2009, (then)Trooper Donaldson was investedwith the Victoria Cross forAustralia, becoming the firstAustralian to receive the awardsince the Vietnam War.

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David McLeod, a Lecturer at Waiariki Institute of

Technology and TeachingFellow of Waikato University,

is an educationalist with apassion for progressing and

promoting indigenousapproaches to learning and

teaching across learningdomains of Aotearoa

New Zealand. His most recent interests include

further developing anunderstanding of Te Tiriti o

Waitangi perspectives as ameans of promoting social

justice for Ma-ori withinAotearoa

New Zealand educationalinstitutions and the position of

Ma-ori learning, teaching andleadership in English-medium

primary schools.

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NAME POSITION SECTOR EMAIL

JULIETTE HAYES National President Secondary juliette.nzeals@gmail.com

ANNE MALCOLM National Vice-President Primary amalcolm@ponsprim.school.nz

JEREMY KEDIAN Immediate Past President Tertiary kedian@waikato.ac.nz

DOUG MILNE National Treasurer Consultant charliemarmite@xtra.co.nz

ANN BRIGGS National Secretary Tertiary ann.briggs@ncl.ac.uk

ANNETTE SHEEHY Council Member on Exec ECE annette.sheehy@taurangakindergartens.org.nz

MAGGIE OGRAM Auckland Branch President Educational Coach maggie@ospreyconsulting.co.nz

MELANIE TAYLOR Bay of Plenty Branch President Primary principal@goldensands.school.nz

ANDY WALKER Canterbury Branch President Tertiary andy.walker@intueri.co.nz

PIP WELLS Nelson Branch President Primary pip@nelsoncentral.school.nz

MURRAY FLETCHER Otago Branch President Educational Coach fletchermurray4@gmail.com

JASON ELDER Taranaki Branch President Primary jason.elder@norfolk.school.nz

RACHEL MCNAE Waikato Branch President Tertiary r.mcnae@waikato.ac.nz

ANNE LYE Wellington Branch President Primary annel@churtonpark.school.nz

ROSS NOTMAN Member at Large Tertiary ross.notman@otago.ac.nz

CED SIMPSON Member at Large ECE/Primary /Secondary ced.simpson@hrie.net.nz

FIONA MCGRATH JELPP Editor co-opted to Council MoE fgmcgrath1@gmail.com

The NZEALS Council is elected by the membership at the biennial NZEALS conference, or co-opted to acertain portfolio, and reflects the cross-sector nature of the society. Council members hold key portfoliosfor the services of NZEALS, and meet bi-monthly by tele-conference to progress strategic work.Questions or ideas may be directed to any Council members using the contact details below.

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