31
Aug

AI & Assessment: From Data Overload to Personalised Success – Bex Rose

The Challenge
Educators are drowning in assessment data. Sifting through PATs, e-asTTle results, NCEA internal data, and student work to find actionable trends takes hours – hours that could be spent actually working with students.
The AI Solution
AI doesn’t replace the teacher’s intuition; it clears the fog. This session focuses on using AI to instantly analyse data, spot learning gaps, and align student needs directly with the New Zealand Curriculum framework.
  • Presented by
    Bex Rose
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    31 Aug 2026
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
10
May

Engaging the Disengaged Learner – Pete Hall (International author/educator)

It’s time to engage the disengaged learner
Are you – and/or your teachers – tired of battling with disengaged students? Are you at your wits’ end with student apathy? Are you working like crazy to inspire and connect kids to their learning?
You’re not alone.
Join former award-winning principal Pete Hall, author of the upcoming “Reaching and Teaching Kids Who Don’t Fit in The Box,” for a one day workshop on ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED LEARNER.
  • Presented by
    Pete Hall (US)
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    10 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
11
May

Building a Culture of Commitment-100% All means All (Auckland) – Pete Hall (International author/educator)

As school and system leaders, our focus has long been on how to implement change. Incorporating the program. Getting people on board.

However, what we’ve learned is that the most effective leaders emphasize moving from compliance and buy-in to commitment and full engagement. Leadership is a people business.

In this engaging and uplifting session, award-winning former principal and best-selling author Pete Hall will share strategies, language tips, mental models, and practical tools to help you build a culture of commitment, rather than a burst of compliance (or worse).

Using your real-life scenarios in a collaborative setting, participants will connect, problem-solve, and elevate their approach to leadership so their entire teams – even the laggards and grumps – will join forces to achieve at high levels.
  • Presented by
    Pete Hall (US)
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    11 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
13
May

Engaging the Disengaged Learner (Christchurch) – Pete Hall (International author/educator)

It’s time to engage the disengaged learner
Are you – and/or your teachers – tired of battling with disengaged students? Are you at your wits’ end with student apathy? Are you working like crazy to inspire and connect kids to their learning?
You’re not alone.
Join former award-winning principal Pete Hall, author of the upcoming “Reaching and Teaching Kids Who Don’t Fit in The Box,” for a one day workshop on ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED LEARNER.
  • Presented by
    Pete Hall (US)
  • Location:
    The George
  • Date:
    13 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
14
May

Building a Culture of Commitment (Christchurch) Pete Hall (International author/educator)

As school and system leaders, our focus has long been on how to implement change. Incorporating the program. Getting people on board.

However, what we’ve learned is that the most effective leaders emphasize moving from compliance and buy-in to commitment and full engagement. Leadership is a people business.

In this engaging and uplifting session, award-winning former principal and best-selling author Pete Hall will share strategies, language tips, mental models, and practical tools to help you build a culture of commitment, rather than a burst of compliance (or worse).

Using your real-life scenarios in a collaborative setting, participants will connect, problem-solve, and elevate their approach to leadership so their entire teams – even the laggards and grumps – will join forces to achieve at high levels.
  • Presented by
    Pete Hall (US)
  • Location:
    The George
  • Date:
    14 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
17
May

From Feedback to Advice – Developing Students Who Seek Advice (International James Anderson)

This is not a theoretical seminar. This is a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves planning workshop where you will analyse your current practice, explore the strategy toolkit, and build actual classroom templates for Monday morning.
  • Presented by
    James Anderson
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    17 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
25
May

AI in Action: Elevating Structured Literacy & Maths- Bex Rose

Target Audience: Primary and Intermediate Teachers, Literacy/Numeracy Coordinators, and Junior School Leads

With the mandatory shifts toward Structured Literacy and refreshed Maths frameworks, teachers are under pressure to design highly specific, sequential lessons. Creating decodable texts, sourcing targeted phonics practice, or building differentiated maths problem-solving tasks tailored to different readiness levels takes an immense amount of weekend and evening prep time. The AI Solution

AI acts as your expert teaching assistant, taking the heavy lifting out of resource creation. This hands-on workshop demonstrates how to use AI to generate evidence-based, curriculum-aligned resources for Structured Literacy and Maths in seconds, allowing you to focus on explicit teaching.
  • Presented by
    Bex Rose
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    25 May 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
24
Jun

Huakina: opening minds, improving practice – Nathan Wallis & Melanie Riwai-Couch

Engaging with an indigenous framework and learning a worldview beyond your own offers profound benefits that extend far beyond the obvious. Whether or not you identify as indigenous, this experience activates unique neurological connections, altering foundational brain structures. These changes enhance overall intelligence, resilience, and perseverance, particularly in children.
Nathan and Melanie combine their expertise in Tikanga Māori, indigenous education, and neuroscience to offer teachers new ways to expand their knowledge and practice. Inspired by the remarkable connections between research and tikanga, they aim to share this understanding to support teachers in their journey.
  • Presented by
    Nathan Wallis & Melanie Riwai-Couch
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    24 Jun 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
15
Jul

Building learners capacity through powerful teaching? (International Kath Murdoch)

Are you ready to reinvigorate your practice and transform your classroom into a hub of engaged, curious learners? Join renowned educator and author Kath Murdoch for an inspiring and practical workshop designed to empower teachers and help create dynamic learning experiences in the classroom.

This workshop delves into effective facilitation, cultivating student agency and deep understanding. Kath will share her expertise in creating rich learning environments, posing thought-provoking questions, designing strategies that invite learners to think critically, creatively and reflectively, managing collaborative group work, and fostering meaningful reflection with students.

Whether you are an experienced educator, new to the profession, or simply seeking to enhance your existing skills, this workshop offers a valuable opportunity to learn from a leading expert and connect with fellow educators. Walk away reminded of the joy and satisfaction that teaching can bring together with practical tools, strategies and inspiration to create a classroom where students thrive as active, engaged learners.
  • Presented by
    Kath Murdoch
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium, Auckland
  • Date:
    15 Jul 2027
  • Time:
    09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
16
Jul

Building ‘learner assets’ in the classroom (International Kath Murdoch)

n the contemporary classroom, educators work to help learners see themselves as capable, curious, resourceful individuals with a strong sense of agency.

There is growing evidence of the importance of nurturing the kinds of dispositions and skills associated with agency. Being curious, adventurous, resilient, coupled with the skills of self-management, collaboration, thinking, and communication are amongst what we can think of as ‘assets’ for learning. Growing these assets in our learners helps set them on a path to independence, contribution to community and a love of learning for life. 

These skills and dispositions do not grow by chance – they are best developed through an explicit, thoughtful, embedded approach that embodies an inquiry stance. The role of the educator is pivotal. In this wonderfully interactive and motivating workshop, Kath will draw upon her vast experience of introducing her ‘learning assets’ to schools all over the world and sharing really practical ways to effectively embed skills and dispositions for learning into our work with children and their families. 
  • Presented by
    Kath Murdoch
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium, Auckland
  • Date:
    16 Jul 2027
  • Time:
    09:00 AM - 03:00 PM
26
Aug

AI in Leadership/ Change – Bex Rose

The Challenge

The upcoming 2027 curriculum changes and ongoing NCEA updates bring a wave of anxiety and administrative overhaul. School leaders need to guide their staff through massive transitions while actively preventing teacher burnout and keeping daily operations running smoothly.

The AI Solution

Leadership in 2027 requires strategic automation. This workshop focuses on using AI as a high-level operational partner to streamline institutional processes, unpack complex curriculum changes (such as Te Mātaiaho), and support your teaching staff through major transitions.
  • Presented by
    Bex Rose
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    26 Aug 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
13
Sep

Embedding Formative Assessment(International author/educator Dylan Wiliam)

There is now substantial research evidence that supporting teachers in their development of formative assessment is perhaps the most cost-effective way to increase student achievement, and to make educational outcomes more equitable without increasing teacher workload. However many attempts to implement formative assessment have been unsuccessful because they have not taken into account that effective formative assessment involves two equally important components: supporting teachers in acquiring knowledge about effective practices and changing classroom habits.

In this interactive workshop participants will learn what formative assessment is, and more importantly what it is not, why it is not the same as assessment for learning, and not all approaches to formative assessment are equally effective.
  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium
  • Date:
    13 Sep 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
14
Sep

Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment. In that order (International author/educator Dylan Wiliam)

One of the hardest things to do in education is keeping the main thing the main thing, as things that have little impact on student achievement, but are easy to implement, often displace more important and more impactful, work.

In this interactive workshop, Dylan Wiliam will argue that to make education work for all students, schools must begin with a focus on what outcomes we want for our students, and only then look at what educational activities will produce those outcomes, how those activities should be organized, and how we can determine whether our efforts have been successful: curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in that order.
  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium
  • Date:
    14 Sep 2027
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM