Principals’ survey says IES wrong model

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-929" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;07&sol;SND05-wk1-News-Principals&lowbar;300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SND05-wk1-News-Principals 300x225" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;>The New Zealand Principals&&num;8217&semi; Federation &lpar;NZPF&rpar; strongly supports the notion of bolstering collaborative practice within and between New Zealand&&num;8217&semi;s schools and investing in lifting children&&num;8217&semi;s achievement&period; It also insists that the Investing in Educational Success policy is the wrong model to achieve these excellent objectives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;For the policy to succeed&comma; the support of principals is critical&comma;&&num;8221&semi; president of the NZPF Philip Harding says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We have surveyed school principals and it is clear that they do not have confidence that the IES&comma; as a model&comma; can achieve a strong collaborative culture for schools&comma; nor lift the achievement of especially our priority learners&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The survey showed overwhelming opposition and concern from a sample of over 1000 principals&period; They said the model was too complex and inflexible in its present form to deliver on its goals&comma; and principals would rather see this money moved closer to classrooms and children&comma; than have it spent on topping up salaries for a few&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The policy represents a huge investment in a critical area&period; It is vital that Government doesn&&num;8217&semi;t steamroll another flawed model over the top of a profession holding significant and legitimate concerns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Under this model&comma; &dollar;90m per year&comma; which represents 90 per cent of this resource&comma; will go to just six per cent of teachers and principals&period; One third of that money will disappear through taxation&period; This money would be so much better targeted to enabling collaborative processes releasing and involving all principals&comma; and supporting priority learners&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Harding says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Our opposition is not due to the policy&&num;8217&semi;s intent which we support&period; Principals are quite clear that it is the proposed design that is the problem and it will not land well in the diverse contexts in which schools sit&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;