EFQM-Hamdan Education Model · New Zealand
Stronger schools.
Better outcomes for learners.
Connect your school’s ambition, everyday practice and evidence of progress.
Explore a whole-school approach to improvement with the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model and practical support from Klicx.
For principals, school leadership teams and boards.
01 / Direction
Find your focus.
What are we working towards, and why?
02 / Execution
Connect your actions.
How do we put our priorities into practice?
03 / Results
Understand your impact.
What are we achieving, and what can we learn?
Start with your school
Every school has ambition.
Where next?
Your people are working hard. Your plans are in place. The challenge is knowing where to focus and how to tell whether it is making a difference.
When priorities compete and initiatives overlap, it helps to step back and see the whole school. EFQM provides a structure for connecting your plans, people and evidence.
Are our priorities clear?
Do leaders, teachers and support staff share the same understanding of what matters most?
Are our efforts connected?
Do our plans, resources and daily practices support one another?
Can we see our impact?
Do we know what is working, for whom, and where we need to adapt?
A whole-school improvement framework
What is the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model?
The EFQM-Hamdan Education Model is a framework that helps schools evaluate performance, connect strategy with practice and guide continuous improvement.
Developed through collaboration between EFQM and the Hamdan Foundation, it brings leadership, culture, teaching, stakeholder engagement and performance into one connected picture.
Direction
Clear priorities. Shared purpose.
Explore your school’s purpose, vision and strategy. Consider how leadership, values and culture support the school you want to become.
Execution
Turn priorities into practice.
Connect your people, relationships, resources and everyday approaches with the priorities that matter to your learners and community.
Results
See the difference. Learn what works.
Bring evidence and experience together to understand progress, recognise strengths and identify where your approach needs to change.
The connection matters: what your school wants to achieve, how it works towards it and the difference it makes for learners.
Focus on what matters
Give your improvement work a clearer direction.
Use the model to explore the connections that shape your school’s performance and identify where focused effort could make the most useful difference.
Keep learners at the centre
Connect improvement decisions with student learning, engagement and wellbeing. Ask what is changing for learners and where gaps remain.
Strengthen teaching and learning
Identify effective practice, explore opportunities to improve and connect professional learning with your school’s priorities.
Align plans and practice
Help staff understand how their work contributes to shared goals. Bring resources, responsibilities and improvement activities together.
Build leadership capability
Develop a shared approach to reviewing performance, setting priorities and leading manageable change across your school.
Hear your community
Bring student, staff, family and whānau perspectives into improvement decisions. Understand where experiences and needs differ.
Make progress visible
Choose meaningful measures, review trends and learn from the evidence. Refine your approach as your school’s needs evolve.
The model in practice
From an attendance concern to a shared response.
A school notices that attendance patterns vary across learner groups. Its leadership team wants to understand why and respond effectively.
Direction
Agree the priority
Define what better attendance and engagement would mean for learners. Agree who needs to be involved and what progress would look like.
Execution
Understand, then act
Bring together attendance data, student voice and whānau perspectives. Choose targeted actions and assign clear responsibilities.
Results
Review the difference
Monitor attendance alongside student experience. Check which groups benefit and adapt the response where progress is limited.
Illustrative scenario only. This is not a client case study or a claim of achieved results.
International framework. Local support.
Make the model work for your school.
Klicx helps New Zealand schools connect the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model with their priorities and improvement journey.
Start with your school’s context, capacity and ambitions. Bring your existing plans and evidence into the conversation, then explore a useful starting point.
Discuss facilitation, learning and improvement support shaped around your team’s needs, with an agreed scope and clear expectations.
Explore support for your schoolUnderstand
Bring together plans, evidence and perspectives to explore strengths and areas for improvement.
Prioritise
Agree a manageable set of priorities where focused effort could make a useful difference.
Act
Turn priorities into practical actions, with responsibilities, support and review points.
Learn and refine
Review progress, learn from the evidence and adjust your approach over time.
Before you begin
Questions about EFQM for schools.
The right approach begins with a conversation about your school’s needs, priorities and capacity.
What is the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model?
It is a whole-school improvement framework developed through collaboration between EFQM and the Hamdan Foundation. It helps schools connect their direction, everyday practices and results to understand strengths and identify improvement opportunities.
How can it support school improvement planning?
The model connects your strategic priorities with the approaches used to deliver them and the evidence used to evaluate progress. This helps your team examine whether plans, resources and actions are working towards the same outcomes.
Can we use the plans and evidence we already have?
Yes. Your existing strategy, improvement priorities and relevant evidence are a useful starting point. Bring these into the initial discussion to explore how the model could support the work already underway.
Who should be involved?
Leadership provides direction, with staff, learners, families and whānau contributing perspectives appropriate to the work. The people involved will depend on your priorities and the scope of your improvement activity.
How much time will it take?
The scope depends on your starting point and the depth of work. Agree the people involved, time commitment and review points with Klicx before beginning.
Where does formal recognition fit?
The model supports improvement and can inform a recognition journey. Discuss whether formal assessment or recognition is relevant to your goals and what the appropriate pathway would involve.
What will it cost?
Ask Klicx for a proposal based on the agreed scope, support and deliverables, so you understand the commitment before proceeding.
How do we get started?
Contact Klicx to share your school’s priorities, challenges and ambitions. Together, you can explore how the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model could support your next stage of improvement.
Your next step
What would make the biggest difference to your school?
Let’s start there.
Share your priorities, challenges and ambitions. Explore how the EFQM-Hamdan Education Model could support your school, with practical guidance from Klicx.
Connecting ambition, action and outcomes.