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Sustainability Scavenger Hunt

Student Activity • PDF

Environmentally friendly pair or group activity.

Tips and Techniques to Engage Boys in Writing

Teaching Strategies, Classroom Resource • PDF

10 practical ideas and tips on how to better engage boys with their writing.

Two-year Programme of Work for Year 9 and 10 Te Reo Māori

Teaching Strategies, Planning • PDF

This resource provides an example of how a Year 9 and 10 Te Reo Māori programme could be structured. It is designed to spark innovative ideas regarding programme planning.

Kū, Pū, Kupu! | Kai - Gameboard

Classroom Resource • PDF

Game board to use with the Kū, Pū, Kupu (Kai) cards.

Upcoming courses

7 Upcoming courses

Wānanga Reo - Christchurch

Christchurch

26 Nov 2026 - 27 Nov 2026

This 2-day Ako Panuku Wānanga Reo is designed specifically to improve the quality of the teachers' language. As these wānanga are popular and book out quickly, preference will be given to kaiako who register for their nearest location.

Te Ara Whakatere - Te Tairongo me Te Tauranga

Auckland

21 Oct 2026 - 22 Oct 2026

Te Ara Whakatere – Navigating Leadership, is a transformative leadership wānanga designed for aspiring Māori education leaders. Grounded in the ancestral metaphor of voyaging and navigation, the programme equips participants to lead with courage, moral clarity, cultural integrity, and intuitive intelligence in complex educational environments. Te Ara Whakatere is made up of three stand-alone 2-day workshops. Kaiako can participate in all three workshops or attend individual workshops. In this workshop, through the navigation elements of te tairongo and te tauranga, kaiako explore tairongo as leadership intelligence including how they know when something is misaligned and identifying restoration practices.

Tiakina te Taiao - Pūtaiao Workshop

Rotorua

2 Sep 2026 - 3 Sep 2026

This two-day workshop is designed to support kaiako in understanding our natural world, and the facilitation of mātauranga Māori through authentic learning contexts that help to preserve the environment. Facilitated by experts in their fields, this is an opportunity to engage with the taiao through their experiences and research. We invite kaiako who are teaching Pūtaiao and/or Science, and who have an interest in mātauranga Māori, to participate in this wānanga.

Te Whakaako i te Pāngarau (Teaching the Teachers the Maths)

Auckland

12 Aug 2026 - 13 Aug 2026

This two-day course is designed to strengthen kaiako understanding and teaching of Pāngarau. The content of the course is aligned to the concepts, ideas, strategies, and skills outlined in each of the five tūārere (phases of learning) of the redesigned Pāngarau wāhanga ako. Suitable for all kaiako teaching Pāngarau, whether in kura tuatahi, kura waenga, or wharekura. It is particularly suitable for kaiako who want to ‘understand the pāngarau’ they are teaching and looking to improve the pāngarau learning experiences of their ākonga.

Past webinars

158 Past webinars

NCEA Te Reo Māori 1.1

This webinar unpacks the NCEA Level 1 Te Reo Māori Standard - Te Kōrerorero i ngā Pārongo, i ngā Ariā, me ngā Whakaaro.

•27 minutes

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Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr | Ko te Ao o te Waka

Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr (Tainui) is the captain of the oceangoing waka Haunui. Hoturoa has been sailing around the Pacific for more than thirty-five years. Recorded at Hui ā-Tau 2023.

•57 mins

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NCEA Te Reo Māori 1.2

This webinar unpacks the NCEA Level 1 Te Reo Māori Standard - Te whakapuaki whakaaro e pā ana ki tētahi horopaki e ora nei te reo.

•13 minutes

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Professor Rāwinia Higgins | Kia Māhorahora te Reo

The Maihi Karauna strategy to achieve one million speakers by 2040 requires the effort of all of us in Aotearoa New Zealand. This places a lot of pressure on teachers to help us achieve this uptake of te reo Māori. Recorded at Hui ā-Tau 2023.