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Ryan Bridge: We need more ambitious leaders in education · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The story of the week this week goes to a
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  Speaker 1: Herald piece about Nairi Ashmore, principal at Auckland Girls Grammar.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great read. You should have a look at it.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't, it's online. Ten years ago, she took over,
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  Speaker 1: turned the place upside down, and the results are speaking
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. Where there was failure, there is now a 92%
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  Speaker 1: university entrance mark for year 13s. That number, or that percentage,
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  Speaker 1: was less than 50 when she started. The article gives
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  Speaker 1: the impression of a driven, serious, quite determined leader there
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  Speaker 1: for the right reasons, which is what you need. We
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  Speaker 1: need more of these leaders in schools. Interestingly, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that she found was most difficult, not the kids,
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  Speaker 1: but the teachers. Getting them to believe that the kids
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  Speaker 1: could actually do better and be better, be more successful,
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  Speaker 1: that was the challenge. Thank goodness she has succeeded and
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  Speaker 1: she is a successful principal. I would like more of her.
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  Speaker 1: I want more Naira is in schools around New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: I think we all do. We often, rightly, put the
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  Speaker 1: focus on the curriculum or the style of teaching or
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  Speaker 1: the assessments, but at the end of the day, leadership,
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  Speaker 1: bit of vision, goals, and some guts are what drive
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  Speaker 1: organisations to improve. It's true in business, and it's true
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  Speaker 1: in education. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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