24
Jul

Empower your Impact : Tools for Tackling Classroom Challenges(A mini conference for Teacher Aides)

Join us for an engaging and hands-on mini conference designed specifically for teacher aides!

This event will provide you with practical tools and strategies to support students with challenging behaviors in the classroom.

Learn how to foster a positive learning environment, implement effective behavior management techniques, and collaborate with teachers to help all students succeed.

Whether you’re dealing with disruptions, attention-seeking behaviors, or students who need extra support, this conference will equip you with the skills and confidence to make a lasting impact.
Perfect for both new and experienced aides looking to enhance their classroom expertise!
  • Presented by
    Various
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    24 Jul 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 02:30 PM
25
Jul

Using AI Intelligently – Mark Osborne

Using AI Intelligently.

Unlock the potential of AI for teaching with this hands-on workshop designed specifically for teachers. We’ll explore a range of generative AI tools and consider how they can best be used to enhance planning, teaching, assessment, and data analysis—freeing you up to focus on what really matters in teaching: relational, critical, and creative work. We’ll explore a range of practical tools to reduce workload and increasing impact, while also exploring the ethical issues associated with AI: bias, privacy, data sovereignty, and plagiarism. If you’re curious AND cautious, this workshop will leave you empowered to make informed, responsible choices about the use of AI in your classroom and your school.
  • Presented by
    Mark Osborne
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    25 Jul 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
01
Aug

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:
    01 Aug 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
04
Aug

LEARNERSHIP: Nurturing Skilful Learners – James Anderson

After decades of focusing on the skill of teaching, it’s time to focus on the skill of learning.
You have skilful teachers who know how to employ the most effective teaching strategies. Now it’s time to ensure students are engaging in the most effective learning strategies. It’s time to celebrate and value masterful learning. To ensure students go beyond merely achieving outcomes and become skilful, effective learners. To set them up to succeed in school, and thrive in life after school.

In this workshop James shares his signature work on Learnership. For the first time, he defines what it means to be a skilful learner, outlining the six levels of Learnership and how they impact learning in your classrooms. He gives teachers powerful and practical strategies to teach for a Growth Mindset, in every class, every day, and nurture each student’s understanding of themselves as a learner. He gives you deep insights into how to encourage students to understand their Learning Zone and embrace challenge as the pathway to growth.
  • Presented by
    James Anderson
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    04 Aug 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
11
Sep

Making time for student assessment: Better evidence, better decisions, better learning(Dylan Wiliam)

Making time for student assessment: Better evidence, better decisions, better learning

Assessment is the bridge between learning; it is only through assessment that we can determine what our students have learned, and what we need to do next. However, developing effective learning takes time, and since teachers are already working at capacity, the only way to harness the power of assessment to improve learning is first to create time for teachers to think. To this end, this workshop has a dual focus: to share with participants the different ways that assessment can support learning and to help schools identify ways of saving time: to create time for innovation, and simply to help teachers get their lives back.
  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium
  • Date:
    11 Sep 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
12
Sep

Artificial intelligence: How it will—and won’t—change education(Dylan Wiliam)

Artificial intelligence: How it will—and won’t—change education

What every teacher needs to know about artificial intelligence

The rapid improvement in the ability of large language models such as Chat-GPT to produce sophisticated responses to natural language questions has led many to claim that artificial intelligence (AI) will revolutionize education. AI will, undoubtedly have profound implications for schools, teachers, and students, but there are also significant technical and ethical challenges that need to be addressed if AI is to improve education.
In this workshop, Dylan Wiliam will outline how large language models work, explore how AI will impact the world of work go on to show how AI-based tools will change schools and teaching.
  • Presented by
    Dylan Wiliam
  • Location:
    Grand Millennium
  • Date:
    12 Sep 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:30 PM
28
Oct

What ‘The Science of Learning’ really says – Professor Guy Claxton

Some people who favour an academic and selective model of education have recently been saying that ‘the science of learning’ mandates or even requires such an approach. But this claim relies on a very narrow reading of the research.

Read more widely and you find, on the contrary, that a great deal of research in affective and social neuroscience, for example, supports a model of teaching that is much more holistic and diverse.

In this workshop, Guy explores the evidence gathered in his recent bestseller The Future of Teaching and the Myths that Hold It Back, and expands on an approach to teaching and learning that escapes from the false polarisation between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’.

21st century teaching embraces the best of both. 
  • Presented by
    Guy Claxton
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    28 Oct 2025
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
30
Apr

Tiriti-led Practice in Education (Janelle Riki-Waaka)

Kaupapa includes:
*Aoteraoa/NZ pre and post Tiriti history

*Understanding our obligations to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi

* Understanding the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and how we can best embody these in practice.

Riki Consultancy Ltd will be delivering 2 workshops for teachers and leaders who are on a journey to honour the te Tiriti o Waitangi, and better meet the needs of ākonga Māori and their whānau. It will be most beneficial to attend both of these one day workshops as workshop one provides foundational content for workshop 2.
  • Presented by
    Janelle Riki-Waaka
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    30 Apr 2026
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
06
Jul

Building a classroom culture to support curious, empowered, capable learners. K-12 (Kath Murdoch & Trevor MacKenzie)

Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful means not only to engage students, but as an approach that builds the critical skills, capabilities and dispositions for learning alongside a commitment to developing deep understanding across the curriculum. Inquiry is more than a way to plan and teach a ‘unit’. It is a stance taken by teachers and learners and a ‘way of being ‘ in the classroom that is truly transformative. This approach to teaching ignites a zest for learning driven by curiosity and collaboration as students explore questions of significance. In this highly practical workshop, Trevor and Kath share ways to design and facilitate learning engagements that value agency and engage, support and challenge learners to take their thinking deeper.

  • Presented by
    Kath Murdoch /Trevor MacKenzie
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    06 Jul 2026
  • Time:
    09:00 AM - 03:30 PM
07
Jul

Learner-Centered Assessment Practices. K-12 (Kath Murdoch & Trevor MacKenzie)

An exploration of assessment practices focusing on supporting growth, reflection, and nurturing assessment capable learners. Kath and Trevor will facilitate learning about the power of conferring with students through questioning as well as feedback structures that allow for timely, responsive, and intentional next steps.

  • Presented by
    Kath Murdoch /Trevor MacKenzie
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    07 Jul 2026
  • Time:
    09:00 AM - 03:30 PM
23
Jul

Tiriti-led Practice in Education-Session 2 (Janelle Riki-Waaka)

Kaupapa includes:

* Ākonga Māori succeeding as Māori – how we can support the re-indigenisation of ākonga Māori.
* Effective engagement strategies with whānau Māori and Mana Whenua.
* Creating processes to ensure our kura is tiriti-led, and reflecting our committment in strategy.
  • Presented by
    Janelle Riki-Waaka
  • Location:
    Learning Network NZ
  • Date:
    23 Jul 2026
  • Time:
    09:30 AM - 03:00 PM