Health Promoting Schools: Improving school communities’ health, wellbeing, equity and educational outcomes (Presentation audience) (Date)
Feb 23, 2016
Health Promoting
Schools: Improving school communities’ health, wellbeing, equity and educational outcomes
(Presentation audience)(Date)
Outline
• By the end of this session, you will:
• Understand the new HPS framework• Identify the difference between the old and the new
HPS approach• Hear how the new model engages school communities &
improves health, wellbeing, equity and educational outcomes
• Think about how we might work together!
HPS strategic vision
“Whānau standing in any world confidently”
The purpose of HPS is to improve equity, Whānau well-being, and educational outcomes through evidence informed practice.
HPS purpose/mission
Numbers game
Key message:
HPS builds on what schools already do and know
Inquiry based processes and evidence based decision-making and planning (BES programme, Visible Learning Meta-analysis, Timperley, H and Parr J. (2010) Weaving Evidence, Inquiry and Standards to Build Better Schools., Health promotion, Maori and Pasifika approaches and community development)
Old vs new
Key message:
HPS is a community development approach: it responds to the prioritised
needs and solutions that have been identified by the whole
school community
Accelerating equity
Key message:
HPS focusses on those who are experiencing the greatest inequities highlighted through
national prioritiesLocal, regional and national level
Human spider web
Key message:
HPS facilitators are health and wellbeing navigators, delivering solutions in
partnership with, health, education and social service
providers
Nga Matapono
Key message:
HPS works by creating supportive environments and shifting school communities knowledge, skills, attitudes
and behaviours
HPS values
The values underpinning HPS include:
• Te Tiriti o Waitangi• Whanaungatanga - Manulauti o So'otaga i Gafa ma Va-
fealoaloa'I (strengthening relationships)• Kotahitanga – So'otaga Vavalalata i A'oa'oga
(partnership in learning, reciprocity)• Rangatiratanga - Tomatau / Si'itia Tulaga/ Limata'ita'ina ai (uplifting, growing, leadership)
He Awa Whiria
NZ HP values
Global HP values
Pāsifika & others HP values
Nga Mātāpono Tikanga Māori
He Awa Whiria
• He Awa Whiria (braided river), where multiple values (yellow, green, black and pink) have contributed to the development of Nga Mātāpono
• The collective approach values and promotes a range of distinctive views within the NZ school community context
Nga Mātāpono (values)
Unity (based on shared values/principles) within diversity.
Nga Mātāpono (values)- provide an anchor, a moral compass for HPS practice at all levels
Key messages:
1. HPS builds on what schools already do and know2. HPS is a community development approach: it responds to
the prioritised needs and solutions that have been identified by the whole school community
3. HPS focusses on those who are experiencing the greatest inequities highlighted through national priorities
4. HPS facilitators are health and wellbeing navigators, delivering solutions in partnership with education, health and social service providers
5. HPS works by shifting whole school communities knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours and creating supportive environments