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NZEI Te Riu Roa Principals' Kit

This is a dynamic resource for principal members of NZEI Te Riu Roa, and sections will be updated as necessary in line with legislative and policy changes. Please refer back to this resource for the most current information.

Staff management

  • Parental leave
  • Stand downs and suspensions
  • CRT
  • Maximum teaching time for area schools
  • Dealing with difficult conversations with employees
  • Fixed-term appointments
  • Employment of beginning teachers
  • Employment of support staff
  • Good employer obligations
  • Assessing teacher competency and/or behavioural issues
  • How to manage inter staff conflict
  • Misconduct and serious misconduct
  • Performance management processes for teachers and support staff
  • Surplus staffing
  • Family Violence leave
  • Developing support staff job descriptions
  • Physical restraint
  • Unit allocation guidelines
  • Union matters
  • Workplace bullying - coming soon

School leadership/administration

  • Schools' commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Governance and Management
  • Effective Professional Leadership
  • Roll returns and staffing entitlements
  • To survey or not
  • Navigating Novopay and Edupay
  • Dealing with the media
  • Creating a social media policy
  • Personal file template
  • Visitor log
  • Personal information
  • Children with additional needs
  • School management systems
  • Staffing Usage and Expenditure (SUE) reports

Professional leadership

  • Understanding the Principals collective agreements (PPCA and ASPCA)
  • Checklist for dealing with complaints from parents/community
NZEI - Julie Henderson, principal at Eastern Hutt School. Photo copyright Mark Coote/<a href="http://markcoote.com" rel="nofollow">markcoote.com</a>
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