Human Rights in Education is a collaborative initiative through which New Zealand’s schools and early childhood education centres are developing as communities in which human rights and responsibilities are known, promoted and lived.

• Develop a school curriculum based on the principles of the New Zealand curriculum
• Encourage, model and explore the agreed values
• Reinforce pedagogy that promotes student learning
• Develop the key competencies young New Zealanders need to live, learn, work and contribute as active members of their communities
• Meet key achievement objectives across the learning areas
• Meet key requirements for Boards of Trustees, including the NEGs & NAGs.

Joining the Initiative can help early childhood centres:

• Develop a curriculum based on the principles of Te Whariki.

Rights, Respect, Responsibilities is not another programme to be fitted into an already crowded overall school programme.  It is a general whole-school approach to teaching, school organisation and learning, that brings coherence to many things schools do already. It does mean learning a basic framework, but teachers have found that applying the framework improves the learning environment, reduces stress, and provides a toolkit that can readily be applied by students and teachers across the school.