Analysis and evaluation of Springboard Trust's impact on New Zealand learners.
Great leaders make great schools – and Springboard Trust helps to create those leaders.
Our vision, Transforming Schools Together, is an expression of the idea that our cross-sector model delivers unique, leadership-enhancing learning and development to tumuaki. Together, our principals and volunteers learn and develop in ways that enhance the future of our tamariki.
Mapping our impact
Every year, we rigorously evaluate the impact of our programmes – whether learning objectives are met, where tumuaki leadership has improved and what effects that has for the wider school community.
This begins with learning the core tenets of strategic leadership – planning, resourcing, leading change and engaging stakeholders effectively. Principals are more than school leaders, they are community pillars. As such, their ability to positively engage everyone they come into contact with is vital.
When principals have bedded in these skills, they begin to take their senior leaders on the journey with them. Through our Alumni Services, we help educational leadership teams develop distributed leadership (in line with peer-reviewed research on how leadership influences student outcomes).
Over time, principals develop an environment that allows student to thrive. While a long-term process, it is one where we see near-immediate impacts on the ground in New Zealand schools.
As our annual analysis shows, specific improvements in student outcomes under principals that have worked with us can be attributed to changes they made through our programming. Working with Springboard Trust has immense positive impacts for student wellbeing, engagement, and achievement.
For more information and details of our research, please find our annual Impact Reports below.
