Lisa Heald
Educational Specialist
Te Waipounamu - South Island
Rural and Regional Schools
I help teachers who are struggling in the classroom, on teams or with change.
No principal wants to see their staff stressed, overwhelmed or thinking of leaving.
You want a school with consistent quality practice, embedded values, collaborative colleagues and a glowing ERO report.
“Lisa makes best practice normal.”
Area School Principal
Quality Teaching and Learning
Teachers who consistently design programmes and implement strategies that create a classroom culture of focused learning behaviour will raise achievement.
Less behavioral incidents takes pressure off pastoral systems and increases the wellbeing of everyone.
Assessment for learning ensures that the needs of each learner are met and progress can be measured and reported.
Planning that is aligned to the curriculum ensures whole school progression.
When school values are embedded, consistent quality practice and learning is sustained.
Building capability though coaching is how to get Optimal Learning Environments.
Teams that Thrive
Teams that thrive don’t just talk about improvement — they make it visible.
School teams are integral to progress and its sustainability. They bridge the gap between vision and practice.
So why is that, despite your best efforts in putting a team of people together, it’s not working?
Student outcomes improve when teams have clarity of purpose, strong processes, and accountability for follow-through.
Where teams lack these conditions, you experience initiative fatigue, repeated conversations, blame and slow or even no progress.
Building team capability means understanding the conditions teams are working in, then coaching for clarity, ownership, and progress.
Principal Support for Change
Leading significant change in a school is one of the most complex and exciting responsibilities a principal can have.
Through your vision you know what needs to be done. Tt’s about having the capability and capacity within the school to make it happen.
Effective change requires building capability alongside the work itself, so staff are supported to implement new ways of working without overload or loss of trust.
When this happens, progress becomes realistic, and sustainable — and the principal is no longer carrying the change alone.
“We did not start getting any real traction until Lisa got involved,” said Vicki McIntyre. (See the Case Study on the site)
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