Margaret Bendall has been an NZQA Board member for several terms, a former principal of Epsom Girls Grammar School, and a leader of English curriculum design during the 1990s. Her current role provides professional learning and support for school leaders in Auckland and Northland. Much of her recent work has been focused on the implementation in individual schools of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007), and the associated change processes led by the principal and senior leaders. In this way, she continues a career-long interest in how schools and teachers can continuously improve what they do to maximise the potential of every student.
