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Professor Graeme Aitken

Professor of Education, Director of Educational Initiatives, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland

Graeme began his career in education teaching geography, history and social studies at Waitakere College. Since the late 1980s Graeme has contributed to curriculum development at the national level as a member of advisory groups on the development of the Social Sciences Learning Area within the 1997 and 2007 national curriculum frameworks. His doctoral thesis on the history of social studies curriculum design in New Zealand generated recommendations that continue to influence the design of curriculum not just in New Zealand but also other parts of the world.

Graeme transitioned from secondary teaching into teacher education in the 1990s. He established the inaugural secondary teacher education programme at the University of Auckland in 1997 for which he subsequently received a University Distinguished Teaching Award. Over more than a decade as a teacher educator Graeme influenced the futures of a generation of new teachers. His thinking and writing about teaching effectiveness culminated in his co-authored Social Sciences: Tikanga ā Iwi Best Evidence Synthesis, and in the model of Teaching as Inquiry that features in the New Zealand Curriculum and that informs the practice of most New Zealand teachers.

Graeme has advised the Ministry of Education on the development of Standards for Graduating Teachers and the Teaching Council on the use of its Standards as part of the approval process for teacher education programmes offered by tertiary institutions.

Graeme has held a number of major leadership roles at the University of Auckland culminating in his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Work in 2008. In that position he formed the initial partnership with Teach First NZ that enabled field-based teacher education to become established in New Zealand secondary schools. He also initiated and still leads the development of STEM Online NZ.

Throughout his career Graeme has aimed to contribute insights into practice that help decision-making by policy makers, schools and teachers in the best interests of learners and learning.

Professor Graeme Aitken

Ahorangi o te Mātauranga, Kaiwhakahaere Kaupapa Mātauranga Hou, Te Tari o te Tumuaki, Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau

I tīmata ngā mahi whakaako a Graeme hei kaiako matawhenua, hītori, tikanga ā-iwi hoki i Waitākere Kāreti. Mai i ngā tau 1980 kua whai koha a Graeme ki ngā mahi whanaketanga marautanga ā-motu hei mema o ngā rōpū tohutohu mō te whanake i te wāhanga ako o Tikanga ā-Iwi i ngā anga mārautanga ā-motu o 1997 me 2007. Ko ngā whakatau o tana tuhinga roa tohu kairangi mō te hītori o te waihanga marau tikanga ā-iwi i Aotearoa kei te whakaawe tonu i te mahi waihanga marau, kaua ki Aotearoa anake engari i ētahi whenua o te ao.

I ngā tau 1990 ka whakawhiti atu a Graeme i te ako i te kura tuarua ki te ako tangata hei kaiako. Nāna tonu i whakatū te kaupapa whakangungu kaiako tuatahi i Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau i 1997, nā tērā mahi āna i whiwhi a ia i te Tohu Whakaako Taiea o te Whare Wānanga. Neke atu i te ngahuru tau hei kaiwhangungu kaiako, kua whakaaweawe a Graeme i ngā reanga kaiako hou. I hua mai i ōna whakaaro mōhio me āna tuhinga mōhio te Kete Raukura: Tikanga ā-Iwi, ā, i roto hoki i te tauira o te Whakaako hei Pakirehua e kitea ana i te New Zealand Curriculum, ā, hei mōhiotanga anō mō ngā mahi akoako a te nuinga o ngā kaiako o Aotearoa.

Kua noho a Graeme hei kaitohutohu ki te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga e pā ana ki te whanaketanga o ngā Paerewa mō Ngā Kaiako Tāura, ki te Kaunihera Kaiako hoki mō te whakamahi i āna Paerewa hei wāhanga o te tukanga whakamana i ngā kaupapa whakangungu kaiako a ngā whare wānanga.

Kua kawea e Graeme ētahi tūranga nui hei kaiarataki i Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau ko te mutunga iho ko te kopounga hei Kaiako Whakahaere i te Kura Mātauranga, Mahi Pāpori hoki i 2008. Nōna i taua tūranga ka whakaritea te whakahoatanga tuatahi me Teach First NZ, nō reira i whakaturia ai te whakangungu kaiako i roto i ngā kura tuarua o Aotearoa. Nāna hoki i whakaara i te kaupapa o STEM Online NZ, ā, ko ia anō te kaiārahi o te kaupapa nei i tēnei wā.

Mō te roanga o tōna umanga kua whai tonu a Graeme ki te whāngai mōhiotanga mō te mahi akoako hei āwhina i te hunga hanga kaupapa here, ngā kura me ngā kaiako hei painga anō hoki mō ngā ākonga.

Kei te aro tonu ia ki ēnei āhuatanga mā tana ārahi i tētahi kaupapa ohaoha ko tōna whāinga kia ōrite te whakawhiwhinga a ngā tauira i ngā whare wānanga, hei kaitiaki o te 'I Have a Dream Foundation' me te 'Education Hub'.

Louise Anaru

Principal, Kaitaia College

In late 2019 Louise was appointed as the principal of Kaiataia College.

Louise Anaru was the principal of Flaxmere College which was the winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards Supreme Award.

Louise was the recipient of a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader Award in 2013. She affiliates to Ngāpuhi and Te Rawawa. Flaxmere College made good progress to achieve higher levels of equity and increased excellence in outcomes, with nearly all Māori students now gaining Level 1 NCEA and most achieving Level 2 and 3.

Louise has been actively involved in the National Aspiring Principals’ Programme and First-time Principals Programme, and is currently a Beginning Principal Mentor. She is also currently on the Professional Advisory Group providing advice on the NCEA review.

Louise Anaru

Tumuaki, Kaitaia College

Nō te hiku o te tau 2019 ka kopoungia a Louise hei tumuaki ki te Kāreti o Kaitaia.

Ko Louise Anaru te tumuaki o te Flaxmere Kāreti, ko ia te toa mō te Tohu Nui a te Pirimia i ngā Tohu Kairangi Mātauranga a te Pirimia i te tau 2018.

I whakawhiwhia a Louise ki te Tohu a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader i te tau 2013. He hononga ōna ki ngā iwi o Ngāpuhi me Te Rarawa. Inā te pai o te haere whakamua o Flaxmere Kāreti kia pai ake te whakawhiwhinga ōrite me hiranga hoki o ngā hua ako, ā, tata tonu te whiwhi o ngā ākonga Māori katoa i NCEA Taumata 1, me te nuinga i whiwhi Taumata 2 me 3.

Kei te whai wāhi hoki a Louise i te kaupapa ā-motu mō ngā Tumuaki Manawanui me ngā Tumuaki Hou, ā, ko ia hoki tētahi Taituara mō Ngā Tumuaki Hou. I tēnei wā kei runga ia i te Rōpū Tohutohu ā-Ngaiotanga mō te arotakenga o NCEA.

Carmen Dalli

Professor, School of Education, Victoria University of Wellington

Carmen started her academic career in the Department of Teaching the Early and Middle Years of the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta. She joined Victoria University of Wellington in 1986 where she teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and is Director of the EdD programme.

In 1994, Carmen co-led the establishment of the Institute for Early Childhood Studies and served as its Director from 2011 to 2019. Between 2014 and 2017, she was also Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Education.

Carmen has an international reputation for her research on early childhood (EC) teacher professionalism, EC policy, and infants and toddlers in EC services. Her policy work has included chairing the ministerial advisory group that co-developed the ten-year Early Learning Action Plan for New Zealand (2019-2029), being a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Quality for Under-Two Year-Olds in NZ Early Childhood Centres (2012), and a member of the NZ’s Ministry of Education Early Childhood Policy Researchers’ Forum since 2008. She has also provided advice on early childhood policy to the Ministry of Education and Employment in Malta, her country of origin.

Carmen’s recent publications include: Under-three year olds in policy and practice (2017) co-edited with E.J.White, and the Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Policy (2018), co-edited with L. Miller, C. Cameron and N. Barbour. She is lead investigator of a three-year Marsden-funded project called War and Peace in the Nursery: How do young children negotiate conflict to establish belonging and wellbeing in a multi-ethnic NZ early childhood centre? She co-edits the journal Early Years – An International Research Journal and the Springer book series entitled Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three Year Olds: Cross-disciplinary Insights and Innovations.

Carmen Dalli

Ahorangi, Kura Mātauranga, Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui

Tīmata ai te huarahi mahi a Carmen i te Tari Whakaako Tau Mātāmua, Matawaenga hoki o te Kura Mātauranga i te Whare Wānanga o Malta. Nō te tau 1986 i tīmata ia i te Whare Wānanga o Te Upoko o Te Ika a Māui, ā, kei reira tonu ia e whakaako ana i roto i ngā kaupapa tohu paetahi, tāura hoki, ā, ko ia anō te Kaiwhakahaere Matua o te kaupapa EdD.

I 1994 i ārahi-takirua a Carmen i te whakatūtanga o te Pūtahi mō Ngā Akoranga Kōhungahunga, ā, kua noho ia ki reira hei Kaiwhakahaere Matua mai i 2011 ki 2019. Mai i 2014 ki 2017 ko ia anō te Kaiako Whakahaere Tuarua (Rangahau) o te Kura Mātauranga.

Kua hau te rongo mō Carmen ki te ao whānui mō āna mahi rangahau e pā ana ki te ngaiotanga a te kaiako kura kōhungahunga, ngā kaupapa mātauranga kōhungahunga, me ngā tamariki nohinohi i ngā ratonga kura kōhungahunga. I roto i āna mahi kaupapa here kua noho ia hei heamana mō te rōpū tohutohu ā-minita, nāna i whakarite i tētahi Mahere Mahi Tekau-Tau mō te Ako Tau Mātāmua i Aotearoa (2019-2029), ka noho hei mema mo te Rōpū Tohutohu ā-Minita mō Te Kounga mō ngā Tamariki Heke Iho i te Rua Tau i roto i ngā Pokapū Kōhungahunga o Aotearoa (2012), ā, mai i 2018, he mema hoki ia o te Huinga Kairangahau Kaupapa Here mō te Mātauranga Tamariki Nohihohi. Ka noho hoki ia hei kaitohutohu mō ngā kaupapa here tamariki nohinohi ki te Manatū Mātauranga i Malta, tōna whenua taketake.

Ko ā Carmen whakaputanga kōrero o nātata nei ko: Under-three year olds in policy and practice (2017, i ētitia tahitia me E.J. White, me te Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Policy (2018), nā rātou ko L. Miller, ko C. Cameron, ko N. Barbour i ētita tahi. Ko ia hoki te kaitewhatewha matua o te kaupapa toru-tau whai pūtea-Marsden e ingoatia ana ko War and Peace in the Nursery: How do young children negotiate conflict to establish belonging and wellbeing in a multi-ethnic NZ early childhood centre? Ko ia anō te ētita-takirua o te hautaka Early Years – An International Research Journal me te huinga pukapuka nā Springer – Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three Year Olds: Cross-disciplinary Insights and Innovations.

George Ihimaera

Principal, Kereru Park Campus

George is the Principal at Kererū Park Campus. He is a passionate educationist and has been in the profession for over 25 years. During this time he has taught in a variety of schools in the Primary sector, ranging from junior to senior classes as well as in bilingual and total immersion Māori units. He has also held senior management positions as a Deputy Principal in a number of schools before becoming Principal at Kererū Park Campus.

As a lifelong learner, he is still involved in study and has completed a postgraduate diploma in Educational Leadership and Management and a Te Ara Reo Level 5 Diploma in Te Reo Māori. In 2018 George completed a certificate in proficiency in Te Reo Maori through Te Wananga Takiura o Aotearoa. George is also a current member of their Matauranga Board of Governance.

George is a strong advocate for Māori education and is currently the President of the Auckland Maori Principals Association, Aka Tamaki. George is also a current executive member of Te Akatea, the New Zealand Māori Principals Association and is involved in many Ministry panels advocating for Māori as part of this role.

George Ihimaera

Tumuaki, Kererū Park Campus

Ko George te Tumuaki i Kererū Park Campus. He kaimātauranga ngākaunui ia, ā, neke atu i te 25 tau ia e mahi ana i roto i tēnei umanga. I roto i aua tau kua aki ia i ngā tūmomo kura tuatahi, mai i ngā karaehe tamariki nohinohi ki ngā mea tuakana me ngā karaehe reorua, rumaki reo Māori hoki. Kua kawea hoki e ia ngā tūranga whakahaere hei Tumuaki Tuarua i ētahi kura, kātahi ka tū ia hei Tumuaki i Kererū Park Campus.

Hei ākonga tūroa tonu, kei te whai akoranga tonu ia, ā, kua tutuki i a ia tētahi pōkairua tāura mō te Arataki me te Whakahaere Mātauranga me tētahi Pōkairua Taumata 5 mō te reo Māori. I te tau 2018 ka tutuki i a George tētahi tiwhikete matatau mō te reo Māori i Te Wānanga Takiura o Aotearoa. I tēnei wā, ko George tētahi mema o te Poari Mātauranga o taua Wānanga.

He kaitaunaki kaha a George mō te matauranga Māori, ā, ko ia tētahi mema o te rōpū whakahaere o Ngā Tumuaki Māori ki Aotearoa, arā, ko Te Akatea, me tana whai wāhi ki te huhua o ngā rōpū tohutohu a te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga mō te taha ki a Ngāi Māori.

Wendy Lee

Director of the Educational Leadership Project (ELP)

Wendy Lee is the director of ELP Ltd, which provides professional learning opportunities for teachers in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector in New Zealand. Over the past two decades, her team has provided professional learning for teachers interested in the application of Learning Stories in many other countries including England, Germany, the USA and especially China.

Wendy started her career as a kindergarten teacher and was then a head teacher before becoming a lecturer in ECE at the North Shore Teachers Training College, Auckland. Later, she was a manager at the Waikato Kindergarten Association before leaving to form her own company, providing professional support for all teachers in the New Zealand ECE sector.

Her passion for ECE resulted in her becoming national President of the Kindergarten Teachers Association and then, as a mother, her strong advocacy for the role of mothers and children in society led to community work and ultimately to her role as a Councillor for the Rotorua District Council.

Wendy's strong belief in life-long education, social equity and the key role of the ECE sector in achieving this, led to her increasing collaboration with Professor Margaret Carr over a range of ECE research projects emanating from Te Whāriki. These included co-directorship of the National ECE Assessment and Learning Exemplar project resulting in the Kei Tua o the Pae books on assessment.

More recently she has assisted Margaret in the co-authorship of several books on Learning Stories. Her determination to provide all ECE teachers with practical tools that are deeply embedded in the principles of the Whāriki is reflected in the development and application of Learning Stories for both assessment and professional learning.

Wendy Lee

Kaiwhakahaere Matua: Educational Leadership Project

Ko Wendy Lee te kaiwhakahaere matua o ELP Ltd, e tuku kaupapa ako ngaio mō ngā kaiako i te rāngai Kura Kōhungahunga (ECE) i Aotearoa. I ngā rua tekau kua hipa atu kua kawea e tana tīma ngā kaupapa ako ngaio mō ngā kaiako e kaingākau ana ki te whakataki i Ngā Pūrākau Ako, i ētahi whenua atu o te ao, pērā i Ingarangi, i Tiamani, te Huinga o ngā Taiwhenua o Amerika (USA), i Haina anō hoki.

I timata a Wendy i tana huarahi mahi hei kaiako kura pūhou, ā, nāwai, nāwai ka tū ko ia te kaiako matua i mua i tana tū hei pūkenga ki te Kāreti Whkakangungu Kaiako o te Raki Paewhenua i Tāmaki Makaurau. Nō muri mai ko ia anō te kaiwhakahaere o te Tōpūtanga Kura Pūhou o Waikato, kātahi ka wehe atu ia ki te whakatū i tana kamupene ake, mō te tuku tautoko ngaio mō ngā kaiako katoa o te rāngai Kura Kōhungahunga i Aotearoa.

Nā tōna ngākaunui mō ngā Kura Kōhungahunga ka puta ia hei Perehitini ā-Motu mō te Tōpūtanga Kura Pūhou me te mea hoki he māmā ia, nā tana kaha tautoko me te kōrero mō te wāhi ki ngā māmā me ngā tamariki i te porihanga ka uru ia ki ngā mahi hapori, ā, ko te mutunga atu ko tana tū hei Kaikaunihera mō te Rohe o Rotorua.

Nā tana kaha whakapono ki te mātauranga ako tūroa, te whiwhinga ōrite me te wāhi nui o te rāngai Kura Kōhungahunga hei whakatutuki i tēnei, ka whai wāhi ia ki te mahitahi me Ahorangi Margaret Carr mō te whānuitanga o ngā kaupapa rangahau e hua mai ana i Te Whāriki. Ko tētahi o āna mahi ko te tū hei kaiwhakahaere takirua o te kaupapa ā-motu mō ngā Tauoaromahi Aromatawai me te Ako, ā, ko te hua i puta ko ngā pukapuka Kei Tua o Te Pae mō te aromatawai.

Nō nātata nei ka āwhina ia i a Margaret Carr ki te tuhi i ētahi pukapuka e pā ana ki ngā Pūrākau Ako. Ka kitea tōna manawanui ki te tuku mōhiotanga e taketake ana i ngā mātāpono Te Whāriki ki ngā kaiako Kura Kōhungahunga katoa i roto i ngā Pūrākau Ako nā rāua i waihanga mō te aromatawai mō te ako ngaio hoki.

Helen May

Emeritus Professor, College of Education, University of Otago

Helen May taught for nine years as a primary school teacher in the junior classes. Later, when Helen had her own children, she worked in childcare including five years as the Coordinator of the Victoria University of Wellington crèche.

In 1987 Helen began work in teacher education at Hamilton Teachers' College and later the University of Waikato. During the early 1990s she was the co-director, with Margaret Carr, of the early childhood curriculum project that led to the development of Te Whāriki, the first national curriculum guidelines for early childhood in New Zealand.

In 1995 Helen was appointed to the first New Zealand professorial Chair in Early Childhood Education at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2005, she was appointed as Professor of Education and Head of Faculty of Education at the University of Otago, and was the foundation Dean of the University of Otago College of Education after the merger with Dunedin College of Education

Helen retired from Otago in 2017 and was appointed an Emeritus Professor. As well she became an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and is now living in Wellington. She has spoken and published widely in the field of early childhood curriculum and the history and policy of early year’s education. Her most recent book Politics in the Playground (2019, 3^rd ed.) tells the postwar story of the growth of early childhood services including current times and the release of the government’s Early Learning Action Plan 2019-2029: He Taonga Te Tamaiti. Helen was a member of the Minister’s Reference Group during its development.

Helen May

Ahorangi o Mua, Te Whare Wānanga o Otago

He kaiako kura tuatahi a Helen mō ngā tau e 9 i roto i ngā akomanga tamariki nohinohi. Nō muri mai, i a ia e whakatipu ana i āna ake tamariki, ka mahi ia i tētahi kura kōhungahunga me te mahi hoki hei Kairuruku o te kura kōhungahunga i Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui.

I te tau 1987 ka tīmata a Helen ki te mahi i Hamilton Teachers' College, ā, ko Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato te ingoa o muri mai. I te ngahuru tau o 1990 ko ia te kaiwhakahaere-takirua me Margaret Carr, i runga i te kaupapa whakawhanake i te marautanga kura kōhungahunga ko tōna otinga, ko Te Whāriki, te marautanga ā-motu tuatahi mō ngā kura kōhungahunga i Aotearoa.

I 1995 ka whakatūria a Helen ki te Tūru Ahorangi tuatahi mō te Mātauranga Kōhungahunga i Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika A Māui. I 2005, ka whakatūria ia hei Ahorangi, hei Tumuaki hoki o te Kura Mātauranga i Te Whare Wānanga o Otago, ā, ko ia hoki te Kaiako Kaiwhakahaere tuatahi o te Kāreti Mātauranga o Te Whare Wānanga o Otago, i muri mai te tūhononga me te Kāreti Mātauranga o Ōtepoti.

I 2017 ka heke mai a Helen i te Whare Wānanga, ā, ka kopoua ia hei Ahorangi o Mua. Waihoki i tū ia hei Ahorangi Wā Poto i Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika A Māui, ā, kei Poneke ia e noho ana. He kaikōrero, he kaitauhi hoki ia mō te marautanga ako kōhungahunga mō te hītori me te kaupapa here e pā ana ki te mātauranga tai mātāmua. Ko tana pukapuka hou, Politics in the Playground (2019 putanga tuatoru) e taki ana i te tipu o ngā ratonga kōhungahunga o muri i te pakanga tuarua o te ao tae atu ki ēnei wā me te whakaputanga o Early Learning Action Plan 2019-2029: He Taonga Te Tamaiti. He mema a Helen o te Rōpū Tohutohu a te Minita i te wā o te whanaketanga o taua Mahere Mahi.

Linley Myers, MNZM

Partner, Myers Bruce Leadership

Linley Myers has a Master of Education with first class honours, in which she researched the impact of teaching practices for students identified as Gifted and/or Talented.

After many years teaching and in senior leadership positions she worked with the Education Advisory Service as a leadership adviser and as a reviewer with ERO.

Linley was principal of Maungawhau School in Mount Eden, Auckland for six years and at Royal Oak Primary School for 10 years. She was lead principal for the Nga Manu Awhina RTLB cluster and was a member of the principals' national executive for RTLB. She was the inaugural lead principal for Te Iti Kahurangi, Kāhui Ako.

Linley recently received a Distinguished Fellow award for her services to the Auckland Primary Principals' Association. She is currently an independent Educational Consultant.

Linley Myers, MNZM

Hoa Pakihi, Myers Bruce Leadership

Kua whai a Linley Myers i te Tohu Paerua mō te Mātauranga, taumata kairangi hōnore, mōna i rangahau i te pāpātanga o ngā mahi whakaako ki ngā ākonga Pūmanawa nui.

Whai muri i ōna tau e hia nei e whakaako ana, e kawe ana hoki i ngā tūranga kaiārahi ka mahi ia me te Ratonga Kaitohutohu Mātauranga hei kaiārahi, ā, hei kaiarotake hoki i Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga (ERO).

Ko Linley te Tumuaki o Maungawhau School i Maungawhau, Tāmaki Makaurau anō mō ngā tau e ono, me te Kura Tuatahi o Royal Oak me ngā tau tekau. Ko ia te Tumuaki kaiārahi o te huinga o Ngā Manu Āwhina Kaiako Āwhina: Ako me te Whanonga (RTLB), ā, he mema hoki ia o te Rūnanga Tumuaki ā-Motu mō ngā RTLB. Ko ia anō te tumuaki kaiārahi tuatahi mō te Kāhui Ako o Te Iti Kahurangi.

Nō nātata nei ka whakawhiwhia a Linley ki te tohu Distinguished Fellow mō āna mahi i roto i te Rōpū Tumuaki Kura Tuatahi o Tāmaki Makaurau. I tēnei wā he Kaitohutohu Mātauranga Tū Motuhake ia.

Red Nicholson

Project Lead, Curative NZ

Curative NZ works with the change-makers to help change the narrative of complex social issues. Their work includes shaping the way that issues are presented, helping people understand what perpetuates harm, and empowering people to take their own actions for positive change.

Red has spent much of his working life in the education sector. He has a Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary) and a Masters in Educational Leadership.

He has worked as a teacher, and as Head of Department and Dean at Onehunga High School. Red believes strongly in the vision of an equitable and diverse Aotearoa, where all people are valued and supported to live extraordinary lives. A father to two young boys, Red also uses a wheelchair and lives with cerebral palsy.

Red has been named one of the University of Auckland’s '40 under 40', a list of exceptional young alumni for 2019.

Red is a firm believer in the power of stories to combat stereotypes and shift societal assumptions about what people are capable of. In his downtime, Red enjoys writing and podcasting, along with keeping tabs on sports, technology, and politics.

Red Nicholson

Kaiārahi Kaupapa, Curative NZ

Mahitahi ai a Curative NZ me ngā kaiwhakarerekē kia hurihia ngā rere o te kōrero mō ngā take pāpori matatini nei. Ko ā rātou mahi he waihanga i ngā ara e whakaaturia ai ngā take kia noho mārama ake te tangata ki ngā āhuatanga e mau tonu ai te tūkino tangata me te whakamana i te tangata ki te rapu me te whakatau i te rongoā tika mōna ake.

Kua roa a Red e mahi ana i roto i te rāngai mātauranga. Kua whai Pōkairua Tāura mo te Whakaako (Kura Tuarua) me te Te Tohu Paerua mō te Kaiarataki Mātauranga.

Kua mahi ia hei kaiako, hei Upoko Tari, Kaiako Whakahaere anō hoki i Onehunga High School. Tino pono ana a Red ki te whakakitenga mō Aotearoa, arā, kia ōrite te whakawhiwhinga me te rerekētanga, e whakanuia ai ngā tāngata katoa kia whai oranga whakahirahira tonu. Hei pāpā hoki a Red ki ngā tama e rua, ā, nātemea kua pāngia a ia ki te mate whakatīmohea, ko te kōrea tōna waka haere.

Kua whakaingoatia a Red mō te tira '40 under 40' o te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau, ko te rārangi tērā o ngā tāura rangatahi whakahirahira o 2019.

E whakapono ana a Red ki te mana o te kōrero hei pare atu i te whakaaro horapa, whakaaro pōhēhē hoki o te porihanga e pā ana ki te ngā mea ka taea e te tangata. Kaingākau ana a Red ki te pānui pukapuka ki te pāhorangi hoki, me te whai i ngā hākinakina, te hangarau me te tōrangapū.

Soana Pamaka

Principal, Tāmaki College

Soana Pamaka became Principal of Tāmaki College in 2006. She was the first person of Tongan descent to become a High School Principal in New Zealand. Prior to her appointment as principal, Soana was head of the History Department, a Dean, and a Deputy Principal at Tāmaki College. Under her tenure as principal, both roll numbers and academic success has steadily increased at Tāmaki College.
Away from the College, Soana is involved with a number of governance roles, which over the years have included the ASB Community Trust, Teach First NZ, Tāmaki Regeneration Company, Te Papa, Wellington and more recently she has been appointed to the Fale Futures Board under the Pasifika Medical Association Group.

Soana works closely with students, staff, the community and her church. She is a highly respected leader in her community.

Soana Pamaka

Tumuaki, Tāmaki Kāreti

I whakaūngia a Soana Pamaka hei Tumuaki o Tamaki Kāreti i te tau 2006. Ko ia te tangata tuatahi nō Tonga i whakaūngia hei Tumuaki Kura Tuarua i Aotearoa. I mua i tō Soana pikinga hei Tumuaki, ko ia te upoko o te Tari Hītori, ā, he Kaiako Tohutohu, he Tumuaki Tuarua hoki i Tāmaki Kāreti. Mai i te wā i tīmata ai ia hei Tumuaki i Tāmaki Kāreti, kua piki haere te tokomaha o ngā ākonga me ā rātou tutukitanga akoranga.

I waho atu i te Kāreti, kua whai wāhi a Soana ki ētahi tūranga kaitiakitanga, arā, i ASB Community Trust, i Ako Mātātupu, i Tāmaki Regeneration Company, ā, nō nā tata nei i whai tūranga ki te Poari o Te Papa ki Te Whanganui a Tara.

Rite tonu te mahi ngātahi a Soana me ngā ākonga, ngā kaiako, te hapori me tōna hāhi. He kaiarataki whai mana ia i tōna hapori.

Kate Shevland

Principal, Orewa College

Kate has been Principal of Orewa College for more than twenty years and has strong links across the education sector. She is currently on the Executive of the Auckland Secondary Principals’ Association and leads the Orewa Community of Learning. She is Trustee of the Pathways to Employment programme.

She has previously been on the Board of Rodney Economic Development Trust, Auckland Secondary Schools Headmaster’s Association, Harbour Sport, Chair of North Shore Secondary Principals Group, and on many local educational advisory committees. She was on the Ministerial reference groups for the RTLB review and Twenty-First Century Learning.

Kate is currently on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority Board. She is a strong advocate for relevant future-focused learning, responsive to student and societal needs.

Kate Shevland

Tumuaki, Orewa College

Kua rua tekau tau a Kate e kawe ana i te tūnga Tumuaki i Orewa Kāreti, ā, kua mārō kē ōna hononga puta noa i te rāngai mātauranga. Ko ia tētahi o te Rōpū Kaiwhakahaere o Te Tōpūtanga o ngā Tumuaki Kura Tuarua o Tāmaki Makaurau, ā, ko ia hoki te Tumuaki Kaiārahi o te Kāhui Ako o Orewa. Ko ia tētahi o ngā Kaitiaki o te kaupapa o Ngā Ara ki te Mahi.

I ngā tau ki mua i noho ia hei mema ki te Poari Whanake Ōhanga o Rodney, te Tōpūtanga o ngā Tumuaki Kura Tuarua o Tāmaki Makaurau, Harbour Sport, hei Heamana ki te Rōpū Tumuaki Tuarua o te Rakipaewhenua, me te maha atu o ngā kōmiti mātauranga ā-rohe. He mema hoki ia o ngā rōpū tohutohu a Minita mō te arotakenga o te Ako me te Whanonga (RTLB) me Ako Rautau Rua Mano mā Tahi.

I tēnei wā he mema a Kate o te Poari o Te Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa. He kautanaki kaha ia i te akoranga anamata kia hāngai tonu ki ngā mātea ākonga, porihanga hoki.

Professor Graham Smith, CNZM

Distinguished Professor and Inaugural appointee to ‘Te Toi Ihorei ki Purehuroa’ Scholar of Distinction position

Graham is an internationally renowned Māori educationalist who has been at the forefront of alternative Māori initiatives in the education field and beyond. His academic background is within the disciplines of education, social anthropology and cultural and policy studies, with recent work centred on developing theoretically informed transformative strategies for intervening in Māori cultural, political, social, educational and economic crises.

He is involved in the development of Tribal Universities and is a retired chairperson of Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Council. In his former position as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Māori), he was responsible for developing a Māori University structure within The University of Auckland.

Graham’s earlier training is in Social Anthropology and he completed an MA (Hons) dissertation on Māori Rituals of Encounter. He was the first teacher of a Māori immersion Kura Kaupapa Māori school. His theoretical leadership has informed the emergence of Māori education studies as a distinct entity within the tertiary sector, in particular New Zealand universities.

He has contributed to the advancement of indigenous Māori communities. He has also worked extensively with other indigenous/First Nations peoples across the world. Graham is a regular contributor to national forums on indigenous issues and has also been an authoritative voice at international forums on indigenous education issues. Graham has been an active contributor to the critical debate on race and ethnicity both in New Zealand and abroad and maintains a strong influence in the Māori language revitalisation movement.

His other specialist interest is in institutional transformations in order to deliver more effectively to, and for the interests of, indigenous students, faculty and communities. He has published widely and is in demand as a commentator on national and international indigenous matters.

In 2017 Graham was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the then Minister of Education, Nikki Kaye. While he was recently appointed as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Māori) at Massey University he has now relinguished this position in order to take up the newly established position in 2020 of ‘Te Toi Ihorei ki Purehuroa’ — an invited appointment reserved for Scholars of Distinction.

Professor Graham Smith, CNZM

Ahorangi Taiea, me te kopounga Tuatahi ki Te Toi Ihorei ki Pūrehuroa, tūranga ahorangi taiea rānei

Kua hau te rongo o Graham ki te ao whanui, hei tautōhito mātauranga Māori, ā, kua roa tana tū i te ihu o te waka o te ao mātauranga i tua anō hoki. Pūkenga mai ana ia i te mātauranga whānui, te mātauranga tikanga tangata, ngā akoranga ahurea, kaupapa here hoki, ā, ko ana mahi o ngā tau tata nei i hāngai ki te whakatipu rautaki whakaumu hei whakatau i ngā mōrearea ahurea, tōrangapū, pāpori, mātauranga, ōhanga hoki a te Māori.

Kua whai wāhi ia ki te whanaketanga o ngā Whare Wānanga ā-Iwi, ā, ko ia te heamana o mua o te Kaunihera o Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. I tana tūranga o mua hei Pro Vice-Chancellor (Māori), i whakatipuria e ia tētahi hanga Whare Wānanga Māori mō roto i Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau.

Ko tētahi o ana akoranga o mua ko te Mātauranga Tikanga Tangata, ā, ko Māori Rituals of Encounter te kaupapa o tana tuhinga roa mō tana tohu paerua MA (Hōnore). Ko ia hoki tētahi kaiako mātāmua i roto i ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori. Nā ana mahi arataki wānanga i mātauria ai te putanga ake o ngā akoranga Mātauranga Māori hei wāhanga motuhake i roto i te rāngai mātauranga matua, otirā, ngā whare wānanga o Aotearoa.

Kua whai koha hoki ia ki te kakenga haeretanga o ngā hapori Māori. Kua whānui kē tana mahi i te taha o ngā iwi taketake o te Ao. Rite tonu te tū a Graham ki ngā huihuinga ā-motu e pā ana ki ngā take mātauranga iwi taketake. Ko tōna reo tētahi e rangona ana i ngā whakapuakanga whakaaro kaikini e pā ana ki te iwitanga i Aotearoa nei, i te ao whānui hoki, ā, he awenga nui ōna ki te kaupapa o te whakarauora i te reo Māori.

Ko tētahi atu kaupapa e kaingākau ana ki a ia ko te whakaumutanga o ngā whare wānanga kia tika ake te hanga me ngā ratonga kia hāngai ki ngā tauira iwi taketake me ō rātou hapori. Kua whānui kē te whakaputanga o āna tuhinga, ā, ka rapua tonutia ōna whakaaro mō ngā take iwi taketake ā-motu, ā ao whānui hoki.

I 2017 i whakawhiwhia a Graham e Nikki Kaye, te Minita Mātauranga o taua wā, ki tētahi tohu nui arā, ko te Lifetime Achievement Award. Nō nātata nei i kopoua ia hei Tumuaki Tuarua (Māori) i te Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, me te aha nō tēnei tau tonu i heke iho ia i taua tūranga kia riro māna tētahi tūranga hou e kawe, arā, ko Te Toi Ihorei ki Pūrehuroa, he mea āta tono te tūranga nei mō te Ahorangi Taiea.

Te whakawā

The Judging Process

Te Tukanga Whakawā

Step 1

TUATAHI

Step 2

TUARUA

Step 3

TUATORU

What the judges look for

Tā ngā kaiawhakawā e kimi ana

Meet the 2020 Judging Panel

Tūtaki mai ki te Paepae Kaiwahakawā 2020

Judging your entries

Te whakawā

The Judging Process

Te Tukanga Whakawā

Step 1

TUATAHI

Step 2

TUARUA

Step 3

TUATORU

What the judges look for

Tā ngā kaiawhakawā e kimi ana

Meet the 2020 Judging Panel

Tūtaki mai ki te Paepae Kaiwahakawā 2020

Professor Graeme Aitken

Professor Graeme Aitken

Louise Anaru

Louise Anaru

Carmen Dalli

Carmen Dalli

Simon Heath

Simon Heath

George Ihimaera

George Ihimaera

Wendy Lee

Wendy Lee

Helen May

Helen May

Linley Myers, MNZM

Linley Myers, MNZM

Red Nicholson

Red Nicholson

Soana Pamaka

Soana Pamaka

Kate Shevland

Kate Shevland

Professor Graham Smith, CNZM

Professor Graham Smith, CNZM