The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on life in New Zealand. Since the start of the pandemic, ERO has been undertaking work to understand the impact of Covid-19 on education in New Zealand. This suite of work looks at the impact of Covid-19 on learners, teachers, leaders and kaiako across the schooling and early learning sector in New Zealand - and sets out recommendations for going forward.
Learning in a Covid-19 World reports
- Published: 22 Jun 2023
Long Covid: Ongoing impacts of Covid-19 on schools and learning
Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to schools, their staff, learners, and whānau. Three years on from the start of the pandemic, this report has found significant and concerning ongoing impacts on learners’ progress, particularly for learners in poorer communities, and on teachers and principals.
- Published: 09 May 2022
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pacific Learners
The disruptions caused by Covid-19 over the last two years have been challenging and long lasting. Auckland in particular has had many lockdowns and is where the majority of Pacific learners live.
Pacific communities have faced the challenges of Covid-19 with resilience and schools have put in a range of responses to support Pacific learners through the disruption. This report shines a light on these challenges and shares successful strategies.
- Published: 06 Dec 2021
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals
This report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. This report also sets out examples of how schools can prepare for 2022 and what supports will be needed for teachers and principals.
- Published: 23 Sep 2021
Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Secondary School Students as They Return to the Classroom
This short report, aimed at secondary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.
- Published: 23 Sep 2021
Learning in a Covid-19 World: Supporting Primary School Students as They Return to the Classroom
This short report, aimed at primary school leaders, sets out how prepared students and schools felt ahead of the Covid-19 lockdown in August and provides recommendations for how schools can support their students as they return to the classroom.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Schools
To understand what the challenges of Covid-19 were in 2020 and how schools responded, the Education Review Office spoke to schools and surveyed over 2500 principals and teachers across the country. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted students, teachers and schools, how schools responded and what they learnt, and the challenges schools expect they might face in future alert level changes.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education services had to quickly adapt to changing requirements and periods of uncertainty due to Covid-19 in 2020. ERO undertook work to understand how this affected early childhood education services. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted children, whānau and services, how services responded and what they learnt, and the challenges that services expect they might face in future alert level changes.
Summaries
- Published: 22 Jun 2023
Long Covid: Ongoing impacts of Covid‑19 on schools and learning - Summary
Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to schools, their staff, learners, and whānau. Three years on from the start of the pandemic, this report has found significant and concerning ongoing impacts on learners’ progress, particularly for learners in poorer communities, and on teachers and principals.
- Published: 06 May 2022
Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pacific Learners - Summary
The disruptions caused by Covid-19 over the last two years have been challenging and long lasting. ERO’s new report, Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pacific Learners, looks closely at the achievement, attendance, mental health and wellbeing, school contexts, and education pathways of Pacific learners over this time. The report shines a light on challenges and shares successful strategies.
- Published: 06 Dec 2021
The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals - Summary
This short summary of our longer report Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Teachers and Principals looks at the impact of Covid-19 on teachers and principals – including how Covid-19 has impacted enjoyment in work and workload. It also sets out examples of how schools can prepare for 2022 and what supports will be needed for teachers and principals.
Guides to learning in a Covid-19 world
- Published: 22 Jun 2023
Ongoing impacts of Covid‑19 on schools and learning - Guide for principals
This guide draws on findings from ERO’s report Long Covid: Ongoing impacts of Covid-19 on schools and learning, providing what we learned from surveying principals, teachers, and learners in 2023.
- Published: 11 May 2022
Learning in a Covid-19 World: A guide for supporting Pacific learners
ERO’s new report, Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Pacific Learners, goes into detail about the disproportionately negative impact of the pandemic on Pacific learners’ achievement, attendance, mental health, wellbeing, and education pathways. It uses a range of evidence to shine a light on challenges and share successful strategies.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting Board of Trustees into 2021
This short guide is for Board of Trustees for schools. It covers what we found from talking to both Boards of Trustees and schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19. The guide shares suggested actions for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in a Covid-19 world.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world: Supporting early childhood learners into 2021
This short guide is for early childhood education leaders and kaiako. It covers what we found from talking to services in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by services to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support children, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting primary-aged students into 2021
This short guide is for school leaders and teachers in schools with primary-aged students. It covers what we found from talking to schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by schools to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting parents into 2021
This short guide is for parents of children in early childhood education, and of school-aged children. It covers that we learnt from talking to schools and early childhood education services in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19. It also sets out some recommendations for how parents can continue to support their child’s learning this year.
- Published: 19 Jan 2021
A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting secondary-aged students into 2021
This short guide is for school leaders and teachers in schools with secondary-aged students. It covers what we found from talking to schools in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19, and shares strategies used by schools to respond to the challenges they faced. It also sets out some actions that could be considered for continuing to support students, parents, whānau and staff in 2021.
