Kaikohekohe
Learning
and
Change
Network
Kaikohekohe
To prepare for the future
we must honour the past
History reveals that the name Kaikohe came from an incident
involving fighting between inland and Hokianga groups. Kaikohe
Hill was known to the Maori as Tokareireia, and was then
covered with kohekohe trees. Pakinga Pa to the west of the
town was one of the strongholds of Ngapuhi. While the warriors
were away waging war the defenceless pa was attacked.
Being without food the people were forced to eat the bitter
berries of the kohekohe trees. This was when the name
Kaikohekohe was first used – thus Kaikohe.
Kaikohekohe Learning
and Change Network
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How we got started
Our journey so far
Successes
Challenges and difficulties
Some advice
Where to next.
Writing
• Area of weakness as identified
from our end of year data
• Annual report and analysis of
variance
• Professional development had
taken place within our schools
• An area we all wanted to
improve in
Scoping Exercise
Key Questions:
• Who helps you to write?
• How do you know what
level you are in writing?
• Who else know and why?
• What do you use in your
classroom to help you to
write?
• How do you use what is in
your classroom to help you
to write?
Students learning
from each other in
writing is useful
Refining our achievement challenge
This included all stakeholders students, teachers, leaders and
parents and whanau.
We examined the:
• Practices
• Reasons
• Consequences
Learning together
in writing
is empowering
Our School Based Plans
Once again all stakeholders were
part of the plan
• What we were going to do
• Why
• How would we measure the
outcomes
• Goals and expectations
• Links to our Strategic Plans
Our Network Plan
Key Areas:
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Goals
Community involvement plan
Business partners
Resources
Infrastructure
Systems
Support group
Facilitation support
Professional development
Measures and trends
Learning together
in writing
is empowering
Our Successes
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Our children learning from each other
Teachers open to work together and learn together
Parents feel involved
Our future is not based on assumptions
Bringing our school, teaching and community into the 21st
century
Working with all stakeholders
Clear mandate
Accountable to ourselves
Learning about Manaiakalani as a model
Our Challenges and
Difficulties
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Not knowing what this LCN was all about
Taking time and not rushing in
Not getting ahead of our parents and whanau
Leading staff through significant change
Not losing sight of our achievement challenge –
keeping it foremost
• Not knowing what we don’t know
• Rural location and access to resources and providers
• Change in leadership
So what have we learned?
Our advice:
• Your LCN will not work
without buy in and passion
from all stakeholders
• Get used to the idea there is
no money
• Keep the focus on learning
• Do not lose sight of your
achievement challenge
• Trust the process
So what have we learned?
• The power of student and
whanau voice
• Teacher voice can be very
different to student voice
• Do not make plans based
on assumptions
• Acquiring knowledge using authentic learning contexts
• Building skills (Whakamana)
• Communicating locally and globally
(Hono)
(Ako)
Kaikohekohe Learning and Change
Network
So what…
Our Trust
Community meetings
PD
All stakeholders
Collaboration
GAFE
Blogs
Children working together
Excitement
Learning
together
is
empowering
Kaikohekohe
Learning
and
Change
Network