Directed students - time for change?

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Principals across Canterbury schools have raised concern about the system and processes for supporting and resourcing excluded students into new schools by means of 'direction'. Since this matter was raised in 2021, progress on this has been stalled through Covid implications. This is a matter the advocacy team on the Executive would like to explore further.

To help inform the conversation, we would like principal voice on this matter. The purpose for this survey is to invite those principals who have been involved in the directed student process recently (now to 5 years ago), to contribute to a future-focused and innovative re-design of the systems and processes that support these students and the schools involved with them. It is not expected that the survey will fully unpack all aspects of the student exclusion/direction debate but rather be used as a marker for follow up.
From the data and information collected through this survey, it is the intention to approach Te Mahau for a sector-driven response and initiative that supports change to enable better outcomes for everyone involved in the process.
It goes without saying, that the information and comments supplied within the confines of this survey remain confidential and will not be attributed to any specific source without permission.

Greg Lewis
CPPA Executive member

Email *

School *

Principal name *

Principal email *

The number of directed students our school has received in the past five years is... *

more than five

Of the students directed to your school, how many successfully finished their schooling as expected, at your school? *

100%

75%-99%

50%-74%

25%-49%

less than 25%

Overall, in terms of positive outcomes for the student/s involved, how successful was the student 'direction' episode, when paralleled against the establishment process and school investment required to support it?

eg. If you had a very unsuccessful outcome for a directed student, how was the process for you? If you had a successful outcome, how was the process for you? (Please choose not applicable if a line doesn't apply to you.)

Smooth

Problematic

Difficult

Extremely challenging

Not applicable

Highly successful

Successful

Unsuccessful

Very unsuccessful

In reviewing the resourcing and support provided by the MOE, what level of additional staff resource (cost & time) and support was necessary to facilitate and maintain the directed student's pathway? *

Very high level of additional resource and support necessary

High level of additional resource and support necessary

Some additional resource and support necessary

No additional resource and support were necessary

The additional resource and support necessary to support the directed student's pathway was... *

Almost totally provided and supported by the MOE

A shared provision, mostly MOE, some school

A shared provision, mostly school, some MOE

Almost totally provided and supported by the school

If you have had a successful outcome for a directed student, what were the key aspects that you believed contributed to this result?

If you have had an unsuccessful outcome for a directed student, what were the key challenges or difficulties that you believe contributed to the outcome being unsuccessful?

Finally, would you be prepared to personally contribute with some of your experiences to the next phase of follow-up, potentially as a working group or in feeding back to the Ministry of Education?

Yes

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