Projects still operating that LEA initiated SWELL - Raising the Tide of Achievement in South Wellington Primary Schools The purpose of the project is to create a professional learning community involving the eleven schools in South Wellington. The project aims are to ... Establish sustainable systems and procedures for sharing expertise in and amongst schools in the SWELL community; and,  Establish sustainable systems for the collaborative development of expertise by schools in the SWELL community LEA created a website which is the collaborative centre for the swell network. The site is divided into five sections. The first section is a teacher research blog where teachers collaborate on shared action research projects.   The four other section of the website are ... SWELL network intro:  This section provides an introduction to the community and introduces the community leaders and member schools (more) SWELL network activities:  This section includes the action plan for the swell project and lists the upcoming swell events (more) SWELL research projects:  This section includes the plans and results of the research undertaken by the swell network (more) SWELL resources:  This section includes the resources that are generated as a result of swell  network activities and research (more) swell.org.nz       Wellington Yachting Talent Development Programme This is a project involving Yachting New Zealand, the Wellington City Council and the New Zealand Academy of Sport - North Island. The programme is designed to help increase the number of Wellington youth sailors achieving international success.  wya.wellington.net.nz/talent   Port Nicholson Yachting Trust Youth Scheme The Port Nicholson Yachting Trust Youth Scheme provides support to sailors to match race. It includes a learn to match race programme, a secondary schools match racing programme, a women on water match racing programme and a youth match racing squad programme.  youthyachtingscheme.org.nz

Search Search Web Search LEA    Examples of LEA work Educational Research Follow the links below to visit some of our research projects. The pen is mightier than the keyboard: Towards a knowledge age curriculum that assimilates pen based computing This project investigated the impact that pen based computing has on student learning outcomes in a knowldege age curriculum. In particular it focused on impacts on numeracy and literacy, student ability to gather information outside the classroom, and student ability to present at the end of inquiry, problem solving and experimental processes. PROJECT WEBSITE PROJECT REPORT (13mb PDF) DIGITAL MEDIA SPACE    R A M P A research project, implemented for the Ministry of Education by LEA in partnership with Rata Street School and a cluster of schools in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The project discovered ways in which ICT can be used to raise achievement, particularly in the areas of numeracy and literacy. It also lead to the creation of the ICT learning objects database. PROJECT WEBSITE PROJECT REPORT (2mb Word) ICT LEARNING OBJECTS        Whakaaro-Hia THINK! This was a research project, implemented for the Ministry of Education by LEA in partnership with Evans Bay Intermediate and a cluster of schools in the Eastern Suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand. The project discovered ways in which ICT can be used to support the development of thinking skills within the context of problem based inquiry learning. PROJECT WEBSITE    Resource Development LEA developed a range of web based learning resources which teachers can use in their classrooms. Children Have Ownership of Schooling LEA worked with Brooklyn School to evolve a school based knoweldge age curriculum that supports children to self manage learning through authentic learning contexts.   CHaOS CURRICULUM    Curriculum Integration Online LEA was contracted by the Ministry of Education to develop Online Curriculum Integration resources for New Zealand teachers. This section of the site provides access to the materials we developed. CURRICULUM INTEGRATION REOURCES    ICT Learning Objects Database This database includes files which teachers can download to encourage their students to use ICT to support learning and teaching across the curriculum. LEARNING OBJECTS    The THINK BAG The THINK BAG has being developed as a place to store the core thinking tools that are used by teachers and students in the EBIS ICT PD cluster. The THINK BAG contains a set of core thinking strategies that can be downloaded for use with students. THE THINK BAG

What was LEA?    LEA was an educational reseach and development company that operated from 1989 to 2009 in Wellington, New Zealand. The company was established by two of Wellington's leading principals, Tony and Jill Stanley. Tony and Jill's children, Mark, Dean and Glenn, all worked in the company at different times in its history before moving onto other businesses and projects. Over the years LEA produced many resources through partnerships with schools and the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Many of these resources are published on this website. Please feel free to use any of the information published here. Site Index CHaOS curriculum Curriculum Integration ICT in Education Learning Object Database Kia-Kaha-Tikanga-A-Iwi Learning Resources Planet NEARTH Professional Development R A M P Swell Teacher Research BLOG The pen is mightier than the keyboard The THINK BAG Whakaaro-Hia THINK! Yachting Talent Development Youth Yachting Scheme

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