Key Information:-

What? — a conference for educators: ECE, Primary and Secondary School Teachers

When? — the second week of the July School holidays: Monday 17th July 2017 and Tuesday 18th July 2017. Registration will open shortly - but you can register here.

Where? — Lytton High School, cnr Nelson Road & Lytton Road, Gisborne

How much? — $450 Per Person Early Bird Registrations (before end of Term 1 2017), then $600 until close-off date of June 30th. Discount to $350 for Home Group Facilitators and Workshop Presenters. Discount is available for group bookings from Tairawhiti schools — please email for details.

Gavin Grift

Director Hawker Brownlow
Principles of Professional Learning Communities

Gavin Grift teaches the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process for school improvement in Australia. He works with schools across Australia and the US to develop PLC’s.

Workshops:-

A pair of workshops with the central theme of how to enhance productive collaboration and support inquiry into practice. This will include examining how to best use various forms of data to improve teaching and learning.

• Workshop 1 — Pause, paraphrase, and pose a question
• Workshop 2 — How CoLs can transform critical components of education — including curriculum, assessment, instruction, and teacher development — to improve schoolwide practices

Mary Sinclair

Cognition Education Global Professional Development Manager

Mary has held a range of teaching and management positions in New Zealand secondary schools and was formerly the Senior Manager for Schools Monitoring and Support in the NZ Ministry of Education.
In that role she was responsible for national policy development and the leadership of a diverse range of education change management projects.

Workshops Theme:-

Culture Counts: Relationship Based Learning

• Workshop 1 — how is Relationship Based Learning being implemented?
• Workshop 2 — what are the underlying principles and the philosophy behind Relationship Based Learning?
• Workshop 3 — how can we know what’s working? Collating, reviewing and sharing evidence to improve outcomes for students
• Workshop 4 — what lessons can we learn and apply in Tairāwhiti?

Dr Ann Milne

Author of Colouring in the White Spaces Dr Ann Milne is the former principal of Kia Aroha College, a designated-character secondary school in Otara, Auckland. Ann is a strong critic of pervasive, deficit-driven explanations of “achievement gaps” and Māori and Pasifika “under-achievement.”

Topics:-

Keynote — Coloring in the White Spaces: Reclaiming Cultural Identity in Whitestream Schools

Workshops Theme — Equity in Schooling

• Workshop 1 — Understanding the Whitestream in New Zealand schools;
• Workshop 2 — The school-learning lens and the concept of spaces;
• Workshop 3 — What is success? Different perspectives through the self-learning lens and the connected-learning lens;
• Workshop 4 — Powerful spaces and self-determination.