You Aspire, We Inspire

Connecting people with the capabilities that already reside within them and their communities and with ideas and approaches that have been tried successfully in other places. Capability building is an act of empowerment. It serves to eliminate inequity, raise well being, and create excellence.

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EDconnect workshops and PLD

Online or in-person workshops are accessible, engaging and fun ways to help you participate in a professional community.

Growing ‘Relational Leaders’ with PLD funding: A long term impact

PLD funding from the MOE is enabling staff in the Hillcrest Kahui Ako and the Kahui Ako Tokoroa to grow their relational understandings and practice at both an individual and organisational level. After providing Hillcrest Kahui Ako leaders with a tiered programme of...

EDconnect is successful in gaining Ministry and NZEI approval to deliver Teacher Aide PLD

EDconnect nominated five courses that are designed to support Teacher Aides All teacher aides have access to funding to support their professional development and career progression. The funding recognises the important role Teacher Aides have in supporting...

EDleadership foundations workshop series

A great way to bring everyone together and see where we are as a collective at the beginning, and where we need to go next to be a better and more effective leadership team. Today has highlighted areas of need for our team. It promoted professional discussions....

SOUND BEGINNINGS PARTNERING WITH NZAIMS

In mid-August 2022, a team from Sound Beginnings had the privilege of joining the NZAIMS Leaders Conference as an official partner. 2022 is a significant year in our country, as it marks a century of Intermediate schooling in Aotearoa. The conference, held...

LUCKY SCHOOL WINS A YEAR MEMBERSHIP

Congratulations to Bucklands Beach Intermediate School for winning a year’s membership to Sound Beginnings. Staff from the Auckland school attended the recent NZAIMS Conference held in Taupo, where they were in for a chance to win a whole school membership to...

‘Oral language – we think we teach it’

This piece of paper was handed to the team at the completion of one of our ‘Keys to Language and Learning’ courses. We can’t really say it much better than this… This key sentence for us is… “We teach speak making but not speaking, it is the most undertaught area of...