Topic: Rainbow Inclusive Teaching Practice
Compass
Compass is a nonbinary queer person who is passionate about queer liberation, education and community building. For the past four years they have been involved with InsideOUT, supporting rainbow diversity groups and facilitating rainbow professional development for school staff, and moved into the role of Wellington/Te Ūpoko o te Ika School's coordinator in May 2021.
Topic: Entitlements and Expectations as a PCT
Michael Cabral-Tarry
Michael Cabral-Tarry joined PPTA Te Wehengarua as a field officer in January 2022. Prior to this, he was a History and Social Studies teacher for 14 years and taught at schools across Northland and Auckland. During his time as a teacher, Michael worked a learning area lead, dean, SENCO, and within-schools teacher in a Kāhui Ako. He served as the regional chair of PPTA’s Tāmaki Makarau Auckland Region for 7 years, and was a founder of the Aotearoa Social Studies Educators’ Network, the national network of expertise and subject association for Social Studies in New Zealand
David Fowlie
David has worked as a Field Officer for PPTA Te Wehengarua for the past 16 years and is based in the Auckland office. Before joining PPTA as a staff member David taught for 26 years as a secondary teacher in several Auckland schools. During his teacher career he was also an active member of the association taking on various roles at the branch and regional levels.
Kathleen West
Kathleen (Te Ati Awa), works as a Field Officer for PPTA Te Wehengarua in the Hamilton office after returning to NZ from an international teaching role. Before joining PPTA as a staff member Kathleen taught for 20 years in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. During her teacher career she was also an active member of the association taking on various roles at branch and regional and executive level
Topic: Connecting Curriculum: teachers collaborating to deliver a connected curriculum at year 9 and 10
Nik Densem
Nik
has worked as a kaiako Ingarihi and kaiako Media Studies at Te Puna Wai o
Waipapa, Hagley College for over a decade. Also, as the kura's Mātanga Whakaako
(Specialist Classroom Teacher), leader of PCT mentoring and induction, and
co-coordinator of connected learning at Hagey, Nik is passionate about
supporting all teachers to develop a broad kete of culturally responsive
pedagogies and programs that promote student agency. Nik is currently studying
towards a Diploma in Māori Language and Pedagogy (Dip. MLP) at Te Whare Wānanga
o Waitaha.
Tamara Yuill Proctor
Tam leads the Social Science faculty and is one of the co-ordinators for the Connected curriculum at Te Puna Wai o Waipapa (Hagley College). She has a passion for curriculum design and working with teachers. This year Tam is aiming to submit her doctoral research which is a case-study of one urban NZ high school, focusing on, designing and implementing connected curriculum. This case-study has also explored the steps Senior Leadership took to create and support an environment for change. She has presented at number of conferences most recently the PPTA Education Conference in 2021, as well as being invited to schools to talk about her research. Tam is an active member of the PPTA as a current member of the PLD Advisory committee and the Middle Leadership Advisory Committee, last year she was involved in the PPTA workload taskforce group.
Topic: Moving to full (Tūturu) certification – the Induction and Mentoring process explained and clarified
Adie Graham
Adie was a secondary teacher for 20 years with experience as a reliever, teacher, HOD, Dean and Senior Leader. She was a PPTA member and enjoyed a PPTA Study Award to complete her Masters. She remains a fully certificated teacher.
She is a facilitator for University of Otago, Education Support Services, in the PCT contract which supports PCTs, OTTs and Mentors throughout Aotearoa. She has developed a strong relationship with the Teaching Council in this mahi over time through:
- Research project investigating induction and mentoring models in secondary schools – contributing to the writing of the ‘Guidelines for Induction and Mentoring and Mentor Teachers’
- Facilitator in the New Zealand Teachers Council National workshop series for school leaders to introduce the guidelines (as above)
- Supporting secondary PCTs, Mentors and School Leaders in the secondary sector throughout Aotearoa since 2015
In her other life she is a paddler, mountain-biker and an enthusiastic ‘granny’ of 3 moko!
Topic: Connecting to Networks of Expertise
Brendon Henderson
Brendon is the Chief Executive at Teacher Development Aotearoa (TDA) having started in this role in January 2022. He began his teaching career in 1990 and has worked at a number of schools in Wellington. More recently he was principal of Tawa Intermediate School for a period of 8 years. Brendon is particularly interested in growing the capacity and capability of others and in developing strategic thinking in the education space.
He is married to Allison, and they have two college aged children.
Andy Wilson
Andy is a Professional Advisor at Teacher Development Aotearoa (TDA). In this role he is a member of a team that coordinates and provides support for the 36 Networks of Expertise (NEX) across the motu.
Prior to this Andy had 12 years’ experience as a secondary teacher with roles including Assistant Head of Learning of Social Sciences, HOD History and Social Studies, and within-school senior literacy leader for the Napier City Kāhui Ako. Andy was also a PPTA member, and Branch Chair.
Andy lives in Napier with his wife Esther, and their two sons – Hugo (3) and Louis (6 months).
Topic: Strengthening Resilience in Education: Our Approach
Dr. Dougal Sutherland
Dougal’s experience as both a psychologist and a people leader informs his commitment to enhancing personal and organisational wellbeing.He has been working as a clinical psychologist for 20 years. With Umbrella Wellbeing, Dougal provides psychological support to workplaces and employees. This work has taken him around the country and around the world, providing help to everyone from stressed-out bureaucrats in Wellington, to victims of car-jackings, to people living in a constant state of fear due to impending missile attacks.
Previously, he worked at the mental health system coal-face, providing mental health support to children, parents, and families at both Otago and Hutt Valley District Health Boards.
Dougal has a specialist interest in cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) and he also has a passion for making psychology more accessible to the general public and has worked with the media in print, radio, and TV. His skill at translating expert psychological knowledge into accessible learning experiences contributes to Dougal’s training expertise, and his ability to support individual clients to make effective changes.
More recently, alongside his work with Umbrella, Dougal has been working at Victoria University training students how to be clinical psychologists.
Topic: Positive Classroom Management through Inclusive Learning Strategies
Brooke Trenwith
An experienced educator, Brooke is passionate about providing teachers with the knowledge and strategies to support neurodiverse learners in their care. Brooke was President of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children (2016-2020), a NZ representative on the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (2016-2020) and is a MoE Accredited education consultant through her own company, Potential to Performance Ltd. Brooke is a trained a secondary teacher who has also taught from early childhood through to tertiary level and been an assistant director of an English language school in Taiwan. Brooke’s specialisations include inclusive learning (multiple labels), trauma informed education, coaching and leadership support. Brooke was on the Reference Group for the Ministerial Review of Curriculum, Progress and Achievement, the Curriculum Voices Hui for the NZ Curriculum Refresh and has sat on the Ministerial Advisory Group for Gifted Education since 2018.
Panel Discussion- Weaving together your kete.
Melanie Webber
Tāmaki Makaurau born and bred, Western Springs College - Ngā Puna o Waiōrea media studies teacher Melanie Webber will be familiar to many conference attendees. She has been part of the PPTA Te Wehengarua presidential team since 2017, and is now president.
Melanie wants the best possible education system for students, and knows this doesn’t happen without making sure that teachers are supported both professionally and industrially.
Melanie has always advocated for quality professional development opportunities for secondary teachers and is excited to be involved with the Provisionally Certificated Teachers' Conference 2022
Emma Setterfield
I am the Executive Member for the Aoraki region and the Establishing Teachers' Committee. I was born and bred in Whangarei but made the move down to Oamaru after completing my BArts/BTeach degree at Victoria University of Wellington. I am in my sixth year of teaching, and I teach Year 7 Homeroom and Social Studies at Waimate High School. I am also the Year 7 & 8 Curriculum Leader. I am extremely passionate about teaching and the well-being of our New and Establishing Teachers. I hope that through our work on the Establish Teachers' Committee that we help all NETs feel heard and supported as they navigate their way through their first ten years of teaching.
Lauren Strange
Lauren trained to become a teacher in the United Kingdom, where she taught for 2 years before moving to New Zealand in 2017. She currently teaches science at Taupo-nui-a-Tia College and is an active member of the PPTA, acting as the regional Women's Coordinator for the Central Plateau. She joined the National Establishing Teachers' Committee to help aid internationally trained teachers in their transition to teach in New Zealand schools.
Natalie Jump
Kia ora I'm Natalie Jump and I am the PPTA NET representative for the Wellington Region, and a member on the Establishing Teachers Committee. I am also a representative for establishing teachers on the Learning and Development Committee. In my 5 years of teaching I've gained experience in a range of different schools from Western Bay of Plenty to Wellington. I am currently a technology teacher at Wellington Girls' College, specialising Product & Spatial Design and Digital Design Technology. I am a passionate advocate for beginning and establishing teachers and am looking forward to meeting our PCTs in this year's conference, so that we can better understand and support our future education leaders
Paul Stevens
Paul is an art teacher and political organiser based in Tamaki Makaurau. He currently works at Rangitoto College as AHoD Visual Arts and as a PLD Leader. He has been active in the PPTA since he started teaching in 2015 and currently serves as the Regional Chair for Tamaki Makaurau. He is also active in rainbow activism in both PPTA and the Labour Party. Passionate about public education and being a part of imagining and creating a better world, Paul sees both teaching and art as forms of social action in keeping with the collectivism fundamental to the union movement.
Rebekah Ward
Bex is a second year mathematics teacher at Porirua College, in the Wellington region. She completed her undergraduate degree in Palmerston North, then spent a year in Christchurch completing her teacher training. Bex is a member of the New and Establishing Teachers' Committee, and is passionate about new teachers having access to the support and resources they need.