Nirvana+Issues

CASE STUDY – Nirvana School
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 * ADD TO THE LIST OF ISSUES YOU SEE ARISING FROM THE NIRVANA SCHOOL CASE STUDY:
 * Leadership all leaving at once.
 * Leading teacher @ 54/11, dropping to part time and has been told he has a job if he wants it.
 * Whole school documents such as AIP, Strategic Plan, P&D Culture have hall be done at a leadership level, with minimal, if any staff input.
 * Minimal Staff consultation on school issues in general.
 * Meeting structure (is all one way communcation) all admin related with little PD.
 * Decrease in enrolments, (especially students leaving after 1 year) & high truancy rates amongst higher achieving students
 * Change in school population - students from Vietnamese Australian background & new arrivals from Sudan and Sierra Leone; lack of understanding of multi-cultural, trauma & ESL issues; disconnection with the changes in the local community
 * lack of direction for the Consultation Committee
 * no whole school approach to discipline
 * issues surrounding Teaching & Learning; curriculum
 * ad hoc basis to staff induction
 * results from school data and what is actually happening is different