For Deans to clarify their leadership role and responsibilities, strengthen communication skills, provide strategies for working with students, colleagues and parents, opportunities to share ideas for managing priorities, time and workload.
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The Education Group provides a broad range of workshop opportunities to assist schools, leaders, teachers and non-teaching staff to improve their practice and be the most effective they can be. These interactive workshops will provide the opportunity to examine your current practice and consider ways to improve that further. It will also provide the opportunity to interact with people from other settings and to share ideas and approaches.
The Education Group personnel can also design an in-house programme to suit your needs where the number of participants allows. Get in touch for more details.
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Leadership
Kaiārahitanga
Leadership
Being an Effective Dean
Leadership
Being an Effective Head of Department
For all new HODs/HOLs/HOFs/HOLAs, or those who want to refresh their leadership practice, this programme looks at all aspects of the role and its responsibilities.
Leadership
Cultivating a High Impact Senior Leadership Team
Principals, Deputy Principals, HOD, Team Leaders
Facilitators
Leadership
Leading Assessment for Learning: Secondary
Assessment for Learning is a national PLD priority. This online programme provides senior and curriculum leaders with the knowledge and strategies to lead the effective implementation of AfL practices across their school.
Leadership
Leading Change
Are you a senior leader, principal, or deputy principal looking to drive meaningful and lasting change in your school? Join our interactive workshop designed specifically for educational leaders ready to lead transformation in their schools.
Facilitators
Leadership
Primary and Intermediate Middle Leaders
For team leaders, curriculum leaders, in-school and across-school Kāhui Ako leaders – anyone who leads a team. This programme has a theoretical and practical approach to help you transition into leadership or grow your leadership capability.
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13 Aug & 14 Aug 2025
Whāngarei
2 Sep & 3 Sep 2025
Wellington
15 Sep & 16 Sep 2025
Christchurch
16 Oct & 14 Nov 2025
Auckland
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Whāngarei, Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland
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Leadership
Science of Learning
This hands-on workshop will be delivered using the very principles it teaches, ensuring you leave with practical strategies you can immediately apply to improve learner outcomes.
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Curriculum
Te Mātaiaho
Curriculum
New to New Zealand
For overseas trained teachers who are new to teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand, Kaiako o Aotearoa, supporting teachers to understand our Primary School education system and prepare them for teaching in the New Zealand context.
Curriculum
Science of Learning
This hands-on workshop will be delivered using the very principles it teaches, ensuring you leave with practical strategies you can immediately apply to improve learner outcomes.
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Coaching
Kaiako
Coaching
Advanced Coaching Practice
This course is for experienced coaches who are interested in taking their practice to the next level. It is designed to support active reflection on your current coaching practice leading to new insight and awareness.
Coaching
Coaching in Leadership
Designed for current and aspiring leaders in educational settings, this workshop offers an extended learning experience. Coaching in Leadership is a highly practical and evidence-based workshop that provides in-depth learning about the theory and application of coaching as a contemporary way of leading.
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21 Jul & 22 Jul & 8 Sep & 9 Sep 2025
Auckland
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Locations
Auckland
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Coaching
Essential Skills for Mentors
Drawing upon research and the most effective skills and tools of coaching and mentoring, Essential Skills for Mentors helps you better support your colleagues and mentees. You will understand the similarities and differences of mentoring and coaching, explore the stances required to better support your mentees, and expand your skills as a mentor and leader.
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Coaching
Fundamentals of Coaching
Fundamentals of Coaching is a one-day in-house only workshop to begin your coaching journey, or extend your coaching culture schoolwide. Contact us to book your PLD day.
Coaching
Instructional Coaching for Enhancing Teaching Practice
Practical support for Senior and Middle Leaders to achieve powerful improvements in teaching and learning. You will learn how to strengthen the conversations with teachers and how to make observations purposeful to achieve positive shifts in teaching and learning practice and improve Professional Growth Cycle outcomes.
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Coaching
Intensive Coaching Module
Undertaking the Intensive Coaching Module provides the opportunity to deepen your knowledge, skills and experience of coaching. This is completed in your own time with your individual coach from The Education Group.
Coaching
Introduction to Leadership Coaching
This practical course explores all three elements of effective coaching practice: the GROWTH conversational framework; the key coaching skills; a coaching Way of Being; and how to apply these in a range of conversational contexts.
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17 Jul & 18 Jul 2025
Napier
2 Sep & 3 Sep 2025
Wellington
9 Sep & 10 Sep 2025
Auckland
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Locations
Napier, Wellington, Auckland
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Coaching
Managing Challenging Conversations
Giving open, honest, timely feedback is one of the most important roles a leader can play. It is also, possibly, the number one area where a leader may become derailed. Likewise, being involved in helping to facilitate differences between groups and individuals also presents its challenges. This course provides a practical, conversational approach for achieving constructive solutions where everyone feels heard and respected.
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24 Jul 2025
Auckland
1 Aug 2025
Christchurch
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Locations
Auckland, Christchurch
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Coaching
Peer Coaching: Enhancing Teaching Practice
How to strengthen your Teachers’ Professional Growth Cycles and use coaching and video to engage in rigorous, collaborative conversations to improve practice
Coaching
Solutions Focus Master Class
Build confidence in your coaching, go beyond the Growth Coaching framework, and add a wide range of skills and strategies to your coaching kete. This is an advanced coaching skills programme.
Coaching
Students Coaching Students
Students Coaching Students is a very successful way for schools to equip students with the skills to work together; reflect on their learning goals; expand, refine, build new skills; share ideas; coach, teach or peer assess each other.
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Further Learning
Further Learning
Advanced Coaching Practice
This course is for experienced coaches who are interested in taking their practice to the next level. It is designed to support active reflection on your current coaching practice leading to new insight and awareness.
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Further Learning
Essential Skills for Mentors
Drawing upon research and the most effective skills and tools of coaching and mentoring, Essential Skills for Mentors helps you better support your colleagues and mentees. You will understand the similarities and differences of mentoring and coaching, explore the stances required to better support your mentees, and expand your skills as a mentor and leader.
Facilitators
Further Learning
Intensive Coaching Module
Undertaking the Intensive Coaching Module provides the opportunity to deepen your knowledge, skills and experience of coaching. This is completed in your own time with your individual coach from The Education Group.
Office
Tari
Office
Administration Staff Growth and Development Workshop
Suitable for any person in a school administrative role, including Bursar, Executive Assistant, Executive Officer, Finance Assistant, Office Assistant, Office Manager, PA, School Secretary.
Online Courses
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Online Courses
Advanced Coaching Practice
This course is for experienced coaches who are interested in taking their practice to the next level. It is designed to support active reflection on your current coaching practice leading to new insight and awareness.
Online Courses
Being an Effective Dean
For Deans to clarify their leadership role and responsibilities, strengthen communication skills, provide strategies for working with students, colleagues and parents, opportunities to share ideas for managing priorities, time and workload.
Online Courses
Being an Effective Head of Department
For all new HODs/HOLs/HOFs/HOLAs, or those who want to refresh their leadership practice, this programme looks at all aspects of the role and its responsibilities.
Inhouse Workshops
Coaching
Fundamentals of Coaching
Fundamentals of Coaching is a one-day in-house only workshop to begin your coaching journey, or extend your coaching culture schoolwide. Contact us to book your PLD day.
Leading PLD and Curriculum
Leadership
Leading Assessment for Learning: Secondary
Assessment for Learning is a national PLD priority. This online programme provides senior and curriculum leaders with the knowledge and strategies to lead the effective implementation of AfL practices across their school.
Improving Classroom Practice
Coaching
Instructional Coaching for Enhancing Teaching Practice
Practical support for Senior and Middle Leaders to achieve powerful improvements in teaching and learning. You will learn how to strengthen the conversations with teachers and how to make observations purposeful to achieve positive shifts in teaching and learning practice and improve Professional Growth Cycle outcomes.
Facilitators
Coaching
Peer Coaching: Enhancing Teaching Practice
How to strengthen your Teachers’ Professional Growth Cycles and use coaching and video to engage in rigorous, collaborative conversations to improve practice
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