How to significantly improve outcomes for Māori, Pasifika
and minoritised students & their families in your school
community
HPS Inter-active workshops
These free workshops are hosted by your local Health Promoting Schools service. The workshops
are for all school leaders and champions in their school community who are prepared to ask the
critical questions about why disparity exists for certain groups and then be courageous about
seeking out the answers in new places.
These workshops are grounded in evidence and practices that work in New Zealand school
communities like yours. We offer new places to look for answers, new ways to collect and evaluate
information, new classroom, leadership and system practices. Please refer to the presenters’
biographies overleaf. Please click here to register your attendance to attend one of these
workshops.
In these inter-active workshops we share:
• The research, practices and approaches that build relational trust with Māori, Pasifika and
marginalised whānau / families in your school community
• How to develop relationship based learning1
• Effective ways to develop relationship based learning partnerships with Māori, Pasifika and
minoritised whānau/families
• Collective plan – your commitment to action
These workshops come to your region on the following dates:
Region
Date
Time
Venue
Pukekohe
Monday 20 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
Pukekohe North School
Princes Street
Pukekohe
Hutt Valley Wellington
Tuesday 21 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
The Dowse Art Museum
45 Laings Road
Lower Hutt
Porirua Wellington
Wednesday 22 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
Te Rauparaha Arena
17 Parumoana Street
Porirua
Christchurch
Thursday 23 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
Aoraki Room
Community & Public Health
310 Manchester Street
Christchurch
North Waikato - Huntly
Tuesday 28 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
The Anglican Church Hall corner
of William and Glasgow Street,
Huntly
Taumarunui
Thursday 30 April 2015
10 am - 3 pm
Ruapehu Community Arts Centre,
Hakiaha Street, Taumarunui.
Whakatane
Wednesday 17 June 2015
10 am - 3 pm
TBC
1
Relationship –based learning is drawn from Professor Russell Bishop’s research, which focusses on the importance of relationships in bringing about
education success for indigenous/minoritised students. Professor Russell Bishop was the project leader of Kotahitanga, a large scale theory based NZ
education reform project that led to significantly improved student outcomes for indigenous learners.
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Auckland
Tuesday 23 June 2015
10 am - 3 pm
TBC
Rotorua
Thursday 20 August 2015
10 am - 3 pm
TBC
Biographies of the presenters
(Pouli) Laurayne Tafa
Recent Employment
• 2014 – Current: Consultant, Cognition Education, Culture Counts –
Relationships Based Learning.
•
2012 – 2014: Principal – Stanhope Road School
•
2006 – 2012: Principal – Homai School
•
2005 – 2006: Cognition Education Board of Trustees Training and
Support – Contract Manager
•
2001 – 2004: Schools Development Officer – Ministry of Education, Bay
of Plenty
1998 – 2001: Associate Principal – Te Kura Takiwa o Opononi –
Northland
•
Laurayne brings a wide range of teaching, leadership, advisory and evaluation experiences to all the work she is
involved in. Laurayne has a very firm belief in leadership as serving the whole community in which she works and
goes about building the village.
Laurayne has lead three schools through significant change management in educational contexts, situated in
mainly Māori and Pasifika environments both rural and urban. In all of these roles the main focus and outcomes are
about improving schools / organisational performance and community involvement for improved student
outcomes. A critical factor in this success is Laurayne’s ability to create spaces for voices to be heard, freedoms to
be experienced and critical questions about disparities are asked and addressed.
Laurayne demonstrates her on-going commitment to community through accepting requests to join advisory, host
visitors, speak at events and provide advice for groups and / or individuals. Laurayne’s skills at open consultative
processes and coaching others lead to educationally powerful partnerships that result in capacity and capability
building within communities. Laurayne is also often called upon to join selected groups to provide expert, relevant
advice and the frank realities to regional and national strategies most recently Unsupported Playgroups Pilot, Early
Childhood Taskforce and Expert Panel for Education Provision in Prisons.
Laurayne has extensive experience in leading school improvement and network clusters.
Over the last ten years she has been an integral part of challenging the failing status quo and bringing about
positive change to both literacy leadership and school leadership in the Manurewa schooling improvement project
and governance cluster training and support, and more recently the One Tree Hill Network and Mutukaroa Korua
Network. In her role while in the Ministry of Education Laurayne also worked in-depth with Iwi Partnership, Kura
Kaupapa Maori and other schools needing statutory interventions
Laurayne is now providing leadership and coaching through Culture Counts Plus – Relationship Based Learning
based on the research of Russell Bishop – this focuses on the student and family voice as a lever for supporting
improved outcomes for indigenous and minoritised learners. Laurayne is working in the field to bring about
capacity building and sustainable changes from leadership (System Level) to the individual schools and class level
in the Northern Territory – Australia and in tertiary level in New Zealand.
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Alana Madgwick
Recent Employment
• 2014 – Current: Pasifika coordinator for the National Leadership Service
for Health Promoting Schools
• 2013 – Current: Secondary Literacy Online facilitator for the Secondary
Literacy Website
• 2003 – 2015: Secondary Achievement Facilitator for TEAM solutions,
University of Auckland
• 2008 – Current: Education Consultant to schools facilitating workshops
or in-school PLD on a range of topics: Culturally responsive pedagogies,
accelerating Pasifika Achievement, Improving cross-curricula reading,
writing, professional learning communities, teaching as inquiry, critical
thinking, health and well-being.
Alana is a highly experienced, motivated and inspirational leader who works in all areas to build collaborative
expertise to meet the needs of Pasifika learners and their communities. She has formally and informally mentored
Pacific people in education to build their expertise and leadership capabilities to reflect the values of the Pacific
community.
She has been actively involved as a Pacific advisor for a number of contracts within Cognition.
She has received a University of Auckland, Professional Staff Reward and Recognition Award for organising and
leading a highly successful PLD day on Pasifika Student Success that involved a number of University
Stakeholders (2014).
She has volunteered and been a part of the TEAM Solutions Professional Learning Committee with a particular
focus on building culturally responsive practice within the organization.
She has actively led the Pacific staff at TEAM solutions to help the organisation be Pasifika capable. This has
involved supporting and leading the Pacific staff, liaising with the senior management team and leading
professional learning on Pasifika success.
Clayton Wikaira
Recent Employment
• 2013 – Current: Health Promoting Schools National Māori Coordinator
• 2005 – 2013: Community Development Advisor, Northland District
Health Board
• 1997 – 2005: Community Action in Youth and Drugs (CAYAD) facilitator,
Hokianga
Clayton Wikaira (Te Hikutu / Nga Puhi) is a member of the Health Promoting
Schools (HPS) National leadership team, providing national leadership,
direction and support for the HPS sector in New Zealand. Clayton has over 14
years’ experience delivering community development projects that
successfully improve health and wellbeing outcomes for Maori in both rural
and urban setting. Recently he has worked with low socio-economic
communities in Northland where there is high unemployment, poor housing,
alcohol and drug abuse and challenging health and wellbeing outcomes.
Clayton’s strength is being able to engage with hard to reach Maori communities. He has the ability to engage with
Maori, becoming part of their community and leading change that is both empowering and sustainable. He has
walked alongside communities, supporting them to develop programmes and strategies that strengthen their
capacity to address multiple health issues.
For example he recently led a smokefree programme to reduce smoking uptake with youth in an isolated east
coast area called Te Tii. He achieved this by developing Waka Ama (outrigger canoeing) as a vehicle for
engagement and change. Within two years of initiating this project he not only had 100% of the youth in the area
smokefree, but they also went on to become the National Waka Ama Sprint champions and won two gold medals.
In addition they also won races in Rarotonga and to this day they are still smokefree. This success with youth in the
area had a knock on effect - as Clayton also built strong positive relationships with the parents who signed up onto
the national Quit smoking programme-Wero.
Clayton has been involved in evaluating his projects using process and impact evaluations with the communities
he has worked in. He has also been involved in surveys and running focus groups that support the monitoring,
review and evaluation of the projects.
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