WAG - HAUORA
Executive Summary
WAG members shared their research, looking at other regional primary principal clusters and how they supported tumuaki. Discussions around their achievements and people's personal experiences form the basis of the three proposals below.
Key Actions
- Create a list of mentor principals - Cluster presidents to identify principals willing to be on an APPA list. These principles would be available for support, advice, a sounding board and a confidential listening ear.
- Investigate a trial of an APPA Principal Mentor - investigate provision of an APPA funded part-time Principal mentor to provide support, advice, a sounding board and a confidential listening ear.
- Relief Principal - create a list of ex-principals who could be 'relief' principals and step in short term eg. to enable a principal to attend a conference.
Next Steps
The WAG will further investigate how these can be implemented.