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Speaker 1: Also in Parliament has been more reformed for schools, or

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Speaker 1: will be more reform for schools teachers who will now

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Speaker 1: need to give a week's notice before they strike, not

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Speaker 1: three days, and the paramount objective for school boards will

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Speaker 1: be to boost achievement. The Education Minister, Erica Stanford is

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Speaker 1: of course in charge of all of this and she's

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Speaker 1: with us. Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, mate, educator. I'm well.

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Speaker 1: The Education and Training Amendment Bill number two ensure schools

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Speaker 1: prioritize achievement, teacher education, teacher discipline and teacher confidence processes

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what what else are they doing?

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Speaker 2: Well? The Section one two seven of the Education Act

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Speaker 2: told boards what to do, and under the previous government

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Speaker 2: it was very convoluted and had many different things, and

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Speaker 2: you can imagine the types of things that were there,

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Speaker 2: and it took away what it said the prior, which

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Speaker 2: was actually children are at school to achieve, to raise achievement,

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Speaker 2: close the equity gap, that's the paramount objective, and that

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Speaker 2: was taken away, and there was a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: other things that you can imagine. We're there. So we've

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Speaker 2: tidied it up and made sure that schools understand it.

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Speaker 2: Paramount objective is to make sure that our kids are

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Speaker 2: achieving at school.

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Speaker 1: Can the boards do that? Are the board's hands on

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Speaker 1: enough to make an educational achievement? The paramount objective is them?

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Speaker 1: Or is that the principal? Or is that ultimately the teachers.

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Speaker 2: Well as you know, our schools are all self managing

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Speaker 2: entities and the boards are the ones who have the

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Speaker 2: power and the control. And it depends on board. You

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Speaker 2: have some boards who do an excellent job, who make

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Speaker 2: sure that schools are assessing their children, they get copies

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Speaker 2: of that assessment, They make sure that their schools are

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Speaker 2: on track. I mean, I've seen some excellent strategic plans

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Speaker 2: and excellent annual reports where schools are tracking student achievements

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Speaker 2: very well. Other schools who just don't have sometimes the

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Speaker 2: quality of people who are putting themselves forward for the

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Speaker 2: boards who don't do as goot a job. So what

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Speaker 2: we will try to do, I think in future, is

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Speaker 2: try and get some standardization across board so that they

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Speaker 2: are they are they are looking at the same things

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Speaker 2: and reporting on the same things in the same way,

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Speaker 2: so that for example, ero in the ministry and the

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Speaker 2: Minister can look across the board because at the moment,

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Speaker 2: schools all report on completely different things in different ways.

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Speaker 1: We had the Children's Commissioner on earlier attendance things like

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Speaker 1: that that things seem to be tracking slightly but surely

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. Yes, good, so you'd be happy

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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 2: But I didn't hear what they said earlier. I just

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Speaker 2: know from my education portfolio I'm starting to see things

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Speaker 2: change in the education space. One thing I can tell

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Speaker 2: you is that we are world leading in the education

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Speaker 2: reforms that we are undertaking at the moment. In fact,

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Speaker 2: when in the Northern Hemisphere earlier this year, we had

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Speaker 2: other countries coming to us really interested in asking what

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Speaker 2: we're doing because they could see that we're world leading

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Speaker 2: as well in the explicit teaching, the year by year curriculum,

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Speaker 2: the knowledge rich curriculum, the science of learning. And we

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Speaker 2: will assess our kids later this year against the baseline

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Speaker 2: that we did last year, which was frankly terrible, and

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Speaker 2: then going into the election next year, we'll be able

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Speaker 2: to show that things are on track.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Appreciate your time, having a good weekend. Erica Stanford,

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