Alwyn Poole
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Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in-person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13.
Dear All
After the release of all of the new Equity Index (EQI) numbers yesterday I did a, long/late night process to match those numbers to:
- L3 Achievement
- UE Achievement
- Retention to 17 yo
- Progress to Degree Level Study
… for every high school in NZ.
The final sheets in the dataset have trend line diagrams which strongly indicate that the 37 variables used to develop the data set by no means explain what is happening in many schools (for good and bad).
It would be interesting to know if being male was a variable, given how far NZ boys are behind girls.
The good aspect for teacher practice/school aspiration is the schools that are clearly beating their EQI “expectations”. Examples are:
- Baradene College
- Iona College
- St Peter’s Epsom
- Columba College
- Marist College
- Nga Tawa
- St Paul’s Ponsonby
- Al Madina
- Hato Paora
- Manakura
- Christchurch GHS
- St Catherine’s Kilbirnie
- Roxburgh Area School
- TKKM o Hoani Waititi
- Selwyn College
- Zayed School for Girls
- Liston College
- Auckland Grammar Girls School
- McAuley College
Seems like a good group to learn from!
This is a very valuable data set for overall programme evaluation and goal setting/planning. All data is for LEAVERS – the most important category.
If you would like a copy of this data-set, please let me know.
It is highly informative and I would be very happy to discuss aspects.
Regards
