Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success
The resources you’ll find on this page feature schools discussing their responses to the challenge set by Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success: The Māori Education Strategy 2008 - 2012. Ka Hikitia challenged all schools to ensure their Māori learners were acheiving education success as Māori.
These resources focus on where schools were at when they started, how they identified issues, and how they made a start to address these issues.
The strategic intent of Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success: The Māori Education Strategy 2008 - 2012 is ‘Māori enjoying education success as Māori’. This recognises the widespread aspirations of Māori to live and succeed as Māori in te Ao Māori, in Aotearoa New Zealand society and in the wider world.
The Education Review Offices’ June 2010 review, Promoting Success for Maori Students: Schools’ Progress focuses on three critical dimensions for success: presence (being at school), engagement (engaging with learning), and achievement. The review concluded that in order to promote success for Māori learners schools need to:
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Research shows that bringing cultural context into the curriculum affirms the students identity, and validates their cultural knowledge and knowledge of their whānau. (Extract from ‘Te ManaKōrero: Relationships for Learning’, 2007).