Andrew Austin, Author at Springboard Trust

Digital donations: How a volunteer supplied schools with laptops

Andrew Austin / February 28, 2020

What’s the best way to recycle a laptop? E-waste collections, selling on TradeMe, gifting to a friend – there are […]

Andrew Austin / February 24, 2020

Welcome to 15 Questions! Each month, we will ask a different member of the Springboard Trust team or wider community

Andrew Austin / February 18, 2020

How far does your strategic plan reach? Not just in terms of time, but in scope? Outside your values and

Andrew Austin / February 11, 2020

How long do you have to be a principal before you are a truly confident leader? Ten years, twenty? How

Andrew Austin / February 11, 2020

Every year, principals must engage new families and bring them on a journey that spans years – even decades, well

Andrew Austin / February 11, 2020

Diversity in New Zealand continues to rise, and strategic plans are a prime opportunity for our schools to better reflect

Andrew Austin / February 4, 2020

Nga mihi nui, and welcome to Springboard Trust’s new website! This has been a project quite some time in the

Andrew Austin / February 3, 2020

Sally Wilson is a cyclist, a kayaker, a green-fingered food grower, and during 2015, the principal at Raurimu Avenue School

Andrew Austin / February 3, 2020

Disengaged board members. Poor teacher performance. The lowest student achievement levels in the country. A school that recently worked with

Andrew Austin / February 3, 2020

Over-reliance on inquiry-based learning in science is resulting in lower subject literacy rates in New Zealand, the Ministry of Education