Better Relationships for Better Learning

Appendix 2: Acknowledgments

Thanks to the consultants

The Ministry wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the consultants, Dr Bev James and her associate Mr Kim Workman, who developed these guidelines. They met with a wide range of people and drew common threads from the discussions. Taking into account material already available from various sources, they distilled some of the essential elements from these discussions and produced the early drafts of this document. Bev and Kim brought to the project a personal awareness of Māori social and educational concerns and aspirations that enabled them to create a document that the Ministry believes will be very useful to schools. Thank you both for your contributions.

Thanks to people from these schools and their communities who contributed to the development of these guidelines:

• Bluff School, Bluff
• Cambridge High School, Cambridge
• Fairfield College, Hamilton
• Freemans Bay School, Auckland
• Hamilton West School, Hamilton
• Koromatua School, Waikato
• Malfroy School, Rotorua
• Melville High School, Hamilton
• Melville Intermediate School, Hamilton
• Motueka High School, Motueka
• Nelson Central School, Nelson
• Nelson Intermediate School, Nelson
• Newtown School, Wellington
• Omarumutu School, Opotiki
• Opotiki College, Opotiki
• Parkway College, Wainuiomata
• Pukekohe North School, Pukekohe
• Raurimu School, Whangarei
• Rhode Street Primary School, Hamilton
• Richmond Park School, Hamilton
• Rockdale Park School, Invercargill
• Rotorua School, Rotorua
• Rowley Street School, Christchurch
• Selwyn School, Rotorua
• Thames South School, Thames
• Victory School, Nelson
• Woolston School, Christchurch               

Thanks also to people from these community and other organisations for their contributions:

Two hui were held with Māori parents and whānau, at Papawai Marae, in the Wairarapa, and Tātou o te Pō Marae, Lower Hutt.

A meeting was held with the Māori executive and the full executive of the New Zealand School Trustees Association.

Staff of the Ministry of Education, the Education Review Office, the Wellington College of Education, and Te Puni Kōkiri also participated in and contributed to the discussions.

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