About Me

As a Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitator, I primarily work alongside school leaders and their teachers to help them develop best pedagogical practice in a 1:1 learning environment.   Through consultation and guided by Manaiakalani’s evidence-based pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share, my goal is to support teachers to shift their teaching practice online to enable differentiated, self-paced learning that promotes student agency.   Through my facilitation, I aim to ensure teachers gain digital fluency to a level of competency that supports rewindable and visible learning resources, aimed at raising student achievement.   I am an enthusiastic advocate for the new Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko curriculum and how to integrate innovative technologies within the Learn, Create, Share framework.

Prior to becoming a Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitator, I studied extensively with Canterbury and Auckland University to earn a Post Grad in E-Learning and Digital Technologies and a Masters of Education.  I was awarded a Woolf Fisher Lead Teacher Scholarship and worked under the supervision of  Dr Aaron Wilson and Dr Kerry Lee with the support of Dr Rebecca Jesson,  Professor Stuart McNaughton and Dr Mei Lai.   This opportunity gave me the research background necessary for understanding how to lead measurable change to raise students’ achievement when learning with digital technologies.  Other aspects I've developed along the way include, how to strategically plan and action change management, the ability to communicate across diverse ethnic and socio-economic groups and facilitation for the development of digitally rich pedagogies.

I originally trained as a secondary school teacher of visual arts and digital technologies.  I've held middle management positions as Head of Department, Dean and School Leader for the Manaiakalani Outreach Programme.  My teaching experience has largely focused on low decile schools with predominantly Māori rolls and within my own teaching practice strive to reflect the bicultural goals and aspirations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi Partnership.