Professional Learning
& Workshops

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

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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21 May & 22 May 2025 Christchurch

22 Jul & 23 Jul 2025 Online

Facilitators

Rowan Johanson, Karen Smith

Locations

Christchurch, Online

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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.

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19 May & 20 May 2025 Christchurch

19 Aug & 20 Aug 2025 Online

Facilitators

Rowan Johanson, Karen Smith

Locations

Christchurch, Online

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Leadership

Cultivating a High Impact Senior Leadership Team

Principals, Deputy Principals, HOD, Team Leaders

Facilitators

Julie Schumacher

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.

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6 May & 7 May 2025 Auckland

22 Oct & 23 Oct 2025 Online

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland, Online

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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.

Next date

6 Jun 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland

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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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19 May & 20 May 2025 Whāngarei

2 Sep & 3 Sep 2025 Wellington

15 Sep & 16 Sep 2025 Christchurch

16 Oct & 14 Nov 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Julie Schumacher, Sarah Hynds

Locations

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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16 Jun & 17 Jun 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland

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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.

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28 Jul & 29 Jul 2025 Auckland

27 Aug & 28 Aug 2025 Wellington

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland, Wellington

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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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16 Jun & 17 Jun 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland

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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.

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22 Jul & 29 Jul & 5 Aug 2025 Online

Facilitators

Locations

Online

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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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9 Jun & 10 Jun & 25 Aug & 26 Aug 2025 Wellington

21 Jul & 22 Jul & 8 Sep & 9 Sep 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher, Rowan Johanson, Sarah Hynds

Locations

Wellington, Auckland

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NEW

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.

Next date

5 Jun & 6 Jun 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher, Rowan Johanson

Locations

Auckland

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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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7 May & 8 May 2025 Christchurch

17 Jul & 18 Jul 2025 Napier

9 Sep & 10 Sep 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher, Rowan Johanson, Sarah Hynds, Karen Smith

Locations

Christchurch, Napier, 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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2 May 2025 Wellington

24 Jul 2025 Auckland

1 Aug 2025 Christchurch

Facilitators

Sarah Hynds, Julie Schumacher

Locations

Wellington, 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

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Facilitators

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.

Next date

26 Aug & 27 Aug 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher, Sarah Hynds

Locations

Auckland

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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.

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher

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.

Next date

22 Jul & 29 Jul & 5 Aug 2025 Online

Facilitators

Locations

Online

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NEW

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.

Next date

11 Aug 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Julie Schumacher, Sarah Hynds

Locations

Auckland

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Online Courses

Akoranga Ipurangi

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.

Next date

22 Jul & 29 Jul & 5 Aug 2025 Online

Facilitators

Locations

Online

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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.

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21 May & 22 May 2025 Christchurch

22 Jul & 23 Jul 2025 Online

Facilitators

Rowan Johanson, Karen Smith

Locations

Christchurch, Online

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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.

Next date

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19 May & 20 May 2025 Christchurch

19 Aug & 20 Aug 2025 Online

Facilitators

Rowan Johanson, Karen Smith

Locations

Christchurch, Online

Book now

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.

Next date

View All Dates

6 May & 7 May 2025 Auckland

22 Oct & 23 Oct 2025 Online

Facilitators

Locations

Auckland, Online

Book now

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.

Next date

5 Jun & 6 Jun 2025 Auckland

Facilitators

Nicky Knight, Julie Schumacher, Rowan Johanson

Locations

Auckland

Book now

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

Next date

Please contact us

Facilitators

We can offer support and advice choosing the right step for you.

The Education Group personnel are highly skilled in designing, in conjunction with you, bespoke in-house programmes to suit individual school and Kāhui Ako requirements.

Contact us to discuss your options