Why choose us to support your leadership growth
Why work with Evaluation Associates | Te Huinga Kākākura Mātauranga?
Leading a school is more complex than ever
School improvement is complex. Leaders navigate changing expectations, competing priorities, and curriculum challenges that rarely have simple solutions. We see these pressures in schools every day. Growing leadership capability matters most during periods of significant change. We can help you make sense of the challenges, cut through the noise, and stay focused on the improvement that is important for your learners.
What are you working to achieve?
Leadership has a powerful influence on equity and excellence for your learners. Draw on the globally recognised leadership and improvement methodologies and partnership approach that we offer to strengthen yourself, your teams and outcomes for your learners.
Development starts with what your school needs. We can support you to:
Strengthen conversations and teams
Develop trust, collective responsibility, and leadership effectiveness through Leading by Learning and Leading Adult Learning approaches.
Solve complex improvement problems together
Implement curriculum effectivelyand succeed at school improvement through Collaborative Complex Problem-Solving.
Grow middle and senior leadership
Build the capability of those who lead curriculum, teaching and learning with our Leading Edge partnership approach.
Strengthen individual leadership
Invest in individual leadership capability through targeted professional support, coaching and appraisal.
How we partner with you: Bespoke, job-embedded, and collaborative.
Mā whero, mā pango, ka oti te mahi.
With the people and the leadership, we will get the work done.
Effective leadership support responds to what matters most in your context. We partner with you to understand your strategic focus and build the leadership capability to respond to your needs, raise achievement, and reduce disparity.
We start by understanding the improvement challenge, what is happening for ākonga, and what your evidence tells you. We consider this alongside your strategic priorities, then explore what is contributing to the challenge before determining what needs to change.
From there, we establish what success will look like and shape support around your context, people, and priorities, focusing the professional learning where it can make the greatest difference. Through careful planning, ongoing review, and shared accountability, we use evidence to understand progress, and evaluate the impact.
The global expertise and unique partnerships behind our team
Our accredited facilitators work across Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, combining deep local experience with globally recognised expertise. Our work is grounded in strong evidence and shaped through longstanding relationships with leading researcher-practitioners. These partnerships enable our team to translate significant bodies of research into practical approaches that leaders can use in their own contexts.
Leadership Dimensions Matrix
We constructed a matrix with the University of Auckland and Learning Media. The matrix has four stages, progressive for each of the five dimensions that allow leaders to identify their learning needs and to measure progress over time.
The term ‘leader’ is used in the broader sense of the word. A leader may be the principal, a leader in charge of curriculum, or anyone with leadership responsibility within the school. The matrix is designed to measure the kinds of knowledge, skills and dispositions identified in the Leadership Best Evidence Synthesis ; it draws on bodies of research evidence to explain what leadership works and why to improve valued education outcomes.
If you want to discuss your leadership goals, let’s talk
Your priorities shape the support.
We will work with you to understand your context and shape the right mix of leadership expertise and support around what you are trying to achieve. Depending on what you need, we facilitate workshops and conversations, coach individual leaders and groups, and present at staff hui, conferences and leadership events.
