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Tātai Aho Rau : Pushing the boundaries of educational possibility
Professional learning consultancy services
CORE Education has an expert team to assist your organisation in specific areas of professional development.
Each has considerable experience, nationally and internationally, and are recognised as leaders in their respective fields. A particular emphasis of CORE's professional learning expertise is on leading whole-school development and change, and the facilitation of long-term professional development goals and programmes to achieve this.
Helping you with…
- Developing a curriculum that is appropriate for your school
- Introducing a change management approach that will help you achieve your goals
- Empowering school leaders to effectively lead curriculum change
- Developing a whole school approach to assessment and reporting.
Mary Anne Mills
Mary Anne is recognised nationally for her leadership in the development of the New Zealand Curriculum while working with the Ministry of Education. Since coming to CORE she has worked with schools and clusters to assist in the application of this at a local level, and worked extensively with school leaders, policy makers and resource developers to support efforts in this area nationally. With a background as a classroom teacher, curriculum development and policy maker, Mary Anne has a unique skill set that enables her to work effectively across a wide range of educational contexts.
Helping you with…
- Curriculum review (across all areas)
- Strategic planning – departmental and school-wide (across all areas)
- Developing and implementing school-wide programmes and processes for gifted and talented education
- Gifted education; social/emotional issues, differentiation in the classroom, identification
- Implementing the Teaching as Inquiry process for effective professional learning
- Implementing the Autonomous Learner Model (Betts & Kercher)
- Programmes to successfully transition students from primary/intermediate to secondary.
Anne Sturgess
Anne is best known for her contribution to the field of gifted and talented education, particularly in supporting gifted students who experience difficulty with aspects of learning. She is a member of the inaugural Board for giftEDnz, has participated on various advisory groups, and was the secondary school representative on the first National Coordination Team to support advisers working in gifted education.
Anne has presented at national and international conferences and has authored and co-authored several articles in this field. She is also recognised for her skills in translating theory into practice as demonstrated in Future Thinking, a book written during her time as a Beeby Fellow (NZCER 2002).
Helping you with…
- Developing ICT capability (teachers' and children's) with an emphasis on open source applications for everyday use within a cyber safe environment
- Using ICT to facilitate a culture of inquiry that encourages theorising, wonder and creativity
- Developing capability in using digital story- telling and e-portfolios
- Use of ICT for professional reflection, collaboration between teachers and parents, and in transitions
- Strengthening understanding of the use of narrative in formative assessment
- Using online environments and virtual learning networks as a vehicle for teacher professional learning.
Ann Hatherly
Ann has over 20 years of leadership and research experience in early years education, with particular strengths in using information and communication technologies to enhance teaching and learning, research, and collaboration with families. Ann is also recognised nationally for her expertise in assessment for learning, planning and evaluation and in multimodal literacies.
Ann's contribution to the field of early years research is widely acknowledged, she has worked alongside noted New Zealand researchers, including Drs. Margaret Carr, Helen May and Valerie Podmore, to develop resources that are now widely used in the New Zealand context.
Ann is a skilled facilitator, has led several Ministry of Education funded professional development programmes in curriculum, and assessment. She also lectured in literacy, assessment and research methods.
Helping you with…
- Strengthening understanding and practical application of narrative approaches to assessment for learning (including reflection and planning)
- Building a culture of inquiry in ECE programmes that encourages theorising, wonder and expression
- Developing responsive transition practices into and within ECE and to school
- Developing collaborative relationships between ECE and school sectors
- Fostering parent teacher relationships to promote parental engagement and participation in their children's learning
- Enhancing teacher assessment practice to empower children as participants in their own assessment and planning for learning.
Jocelyn Wright
With more than 30 years of experience as a teacher, professional development facilitator, lecturer and member of the Education Review Office team, Jocelyn is widely acknowledged for her leadership and research in the area of early years education. She is recognised for her particular expertise in the areas of assessment for learning, planning and evaluation. Also learning continuity between ECE and school and the purposeful and meaningful early literacy and mathematics teaching and learning.
Jocelyn's research work into the literacy learning experiences of pre-schoolers as they transition into school is widely acknowledged. She has also worked alongside Dr. Margaret Carr to develop resources for the primary and secondary school sectors.
Helping you with…
- Development of e-portfolios for assessment and engagement of families
- Building an organisation-wide approach to cybersafety, to understand and manage risks and explore possibilities
- Social networking to connect and grow professionally
- Digital literacy and story-telling as a way to engage children in creative possibilities and meaningful literacy
- ICT tools, applications and software to expand on assessment and learning
- Team building to develop centre-based culture and development
- Developing centre wide self-review processes.
Sharon Carlson
Sharon has extensive experience in the early childhood sector. She has successfully mentored teaching teams in the Ministry of Education's Information and Communication Technology Professional Learning Programme. She works with centres using multi-media to extend all areas of the curriculum, in particularly literacy. Her work also focuses on using new technologies to engage parents and whānau in children's learning.
Sharon provides face-to-face, team and virtual professional learning and development programmes and workshops throughout the country. She is widely regarded for her workshop presentation skills and for engaging participants through her interactive facilitation strategies.
Helping you with…
- Understanding the shifts occurring in the media landscape, and how these affect you and your organisation
- How social media can be used effectively to enhance the work you do
- Developing a social media strategy for your organisation
- Developing a coherent ‘brand’ strategy in the social media space.
DK
DK is a recognised authority on simplifying the fluid social media landscape through his keynotes, master classes and consulting sessions. He has recently emigrated from the UK, where he was the Founding Director of the highly successful mediasnackers.com. He inspires people to learn, work and live differently with social media.
DK has worked with a cross-sector group of clients from teachers to youth services, CEOs to brand marketers, school designers and games manufacturers, through to internal events for telecommunications brands and communication agencies.
In 2011, DK has worked with the team and senior executives at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, on the shifts in media landscape. For UNICEF, he delivered social media training for communications officers from 22 different countries in the EMEA region.
Helping you with…
- Leading organisational change and development
- Developing an eLearning action plan for your organisation
- Auditing ICT infrastructure and use
- Future-focused school planning, including buildings, curriculum and technology
- Planning a strategic approach to professional learning
- Developing online approaches to teaching and learning
Derek Wenmoth
Derek has a broad background in education, with experience as a teacher and principal, and as principal lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education and manger of e-Learning at the Correspondence School. He has worked as a senior policy analyst and adviser to the Ministry of Education, where he was instrumental in formulating a national eLearning framework.
With a long-term interest in the way our engagement with new technologies is shaping our lives as educators and as learners, Derek has a wide, practical experience of exploring how this impacts on the nature of schools and schooling in the 21st century. He is a pioneer in the development of e-learning clusters in New Zealand, and was the originator of the Virtual Learning Network.
In 2008, Derek was recognised as one of the George Lucas Education Foundation’s “Global Six”, awarded annually to educators “who are reshaping the future of education”.
Derek speaks nationally and internationally at conferences and seminars, and maintains a regular blog where he shares his ideas and thinking.
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Helping you with…
- Mobile technologies in schools and showing vision and strategy for school development.
- Development of literacy and numeracy initiatives unique to mobile technologies.
- Helping staff transition from a PC to an Apple environment and maximise the potential of a new technology.
- Enhancing the use of existing Apple technologies across the school.
- Planning and development of new schools into an effective e-learning environment.
- Growing a visual literacy program around photography.
Stuart Hale
Stuart has a background in primary teaching and has specialised in ICT e-learning for the last 30 years. His experience and expertise include:
- Lecturing in pre-service for Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary and Special education for 7 years.
- District Adviser for ICT to schools for the Auckland area for 4 years
- Education Adviser to Apple Division of Renaissance in New Zealand for 14 years
He has now set up iEducator Ltd to specialise in delivering e-learning professional development to New Zealand schools. During this time he has worked extensively with schools, staff, and students to explore the full extent that ICT can be integrated in a teaching and learning environment that is centered on the needs of the learner.
In the last 3 years Stuart has worked with schools as they introduce and develop mobile devices that students will use, such as the iPod Touch and the iPad.
To date, he has worked with over 1700 teachers throughout New Zealand in hands-on workshops exploring the creative application of today's ICTs into the curriculum.
Contact Stuart Hale
Helping you with…
- Integrating digital technologies into classroom programmes
- Extending visual literacy, exploring movie making and animation across the curriculum
- Building and advancing strategic plans for e-learning developments
- Building networks and supporting cross-platform developments
- Extending and enhancing the use of Apple technologies
- Introducing and managing mobile devices as a part of the primary programme
- Developing collaborative approaches to learning and teaching, and capturing student voice
Innes Kennard
For the past few years Innes has been working as an independent e-learning consultant in schools in New Zealand and overseas. He has had 20 years experience as an ICT and Leadership adviser at Victoria University's College of Education. He has had extensive involvement in the use of technologies in and around the classroom.
Over the past ten years Innes has worked in five different ICTPD clusters as a facilitator, guide and mentor. This has given him opportunities to work at both management and chalkface levels.
Innes regularly gives workshops and keynotes, and has developed and managed online collaborative activities.
He has recently been contracted to provide multimedia material for the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) website.
He is an Apple Distinguished Educator but is also equally at home with other platforms and technologies.
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