Aims:

The project aimed to:

• Explore levers for change in relation to Māori student achievement.
• Explore the potential of culturally responsive professional learning as a means to redressing inequities of Māori in vocational training.
• Identify opportunities to leverage systems-level change across the tertiary training system.
• Generate actionable outcomes across the three sites.

Methodology:

The project's kaupapa Māori methodology focused on:

• power sharing and co-constructed learning between kaiako/tutors/assessors/leaders and the implementation team at three unique sites
• an iterative and staged approach to implementation of culturally responsive professional learning and development
• a qualitative case study using interviews, focus groups and surveys to identify levers for change and actionable outcomes.

Intended outcomes:

• Enhance and/or build on the tauira/tutor/kaiako/assessor existing relationships.
• Increase site specific connection to iwi and hapū networks.
• Increase and/or build culturally responsive practices with practitioners and wider staff.
• Identify levers for change across the organisation, practitioner, learner and wider tertiary training vocational sector.