Andrew May

Andrew is a leading expert on performance and productivity, and has spent the past 15 years perfecting the art and science of performance. Andrew is a former elite middle distance athlete, Physical Performance Manager for the Australian Cricket team and coach to Olympic athletes in a range of sports.

Andrew May is also a forward thinking businessman, having co-founded Good Health Solutions, Australia's largest corporate health promotion company with an annual turn over of more then $12 million. In addition to PT Plus; an international business consultancy based in Australia and the United Kingdom. Andrew has also recently launched Australia's latest concept in corporate recovery, a series of exclusive Recharge Clinics in Sydney, Australia.

At the heart of Andrew’s 'Switched On' philosophy is an understanding that we all have the power to control our internal thoughts, energy levels and personal leadership ability. Throughout the day we all make decisions that either ramp up or drain away our available energy stores. Andrew's presentations teach audiences how to recognise their four different performance zones - chill, thrill, spill and kill - then provide the tools to consciously move between these zones. One vital tool being the concept of conscious recovery, taking regular time out to do the things we love in order to reenergise and reconnect to our goals and purpose. 

The rapid speed and intensity of modern business demands a new way of approaching performance. Today’s workplace is a highly competitive cauldron sharing many similar characteristics with the world of the high performance athlete. Intense effort, thriving under pressure, focused concentration and the ability to recover are fundamental to success. Being able to consistently perform at your peak requires a balance between intense effort and essential periods of rest and recovery. You cannot be 100% efficient if you are on 24/7.

Dr Tom Mulholland

Dr Tom Mulholland is Chief Emotional Architect at the Healthy Thinking Institute, a Senior Medical Officer at Auckland City Hospital Emergency Department and an honorary lecturer in Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland.  He has been the chairman of a primary School BOT for 3 years and was a ministerial appointment to chair the establishment board of a new area school. This combined with having 4 children and 3 grandchildren has given him plenty of experience in Emotional management. He has written 2 international best selling books on Healthy Thinking, hosted his own daily TV talk  show and given over 500 keynote presentations and workshops on stress and Emotional Management. His list of clients including a number of schools and principals groups include, Google, Microsoft, Hilton, Audi, ambulance, police and hospital staff. He has helped design a unique Attitude Profiling tool and an on- line Emotional Management system that is used by psychologists and clients internationally.

Allison Mooney CSP
People Expert

“Allison  understands people  like fishermen know their fish!”

A passionate, high energy and humorous speaker, having won many prestigious speaking awards Allison will engage and challenge any audience to

• 'speed read' others  to find out what they  really want
• talk to others  in a way that makes them want to listen
• relate better by seeing things through their eyes.

This fun, fast paced mind-unzipping presentation will infuse in each attendee the desire  to significantly increase their own performance capability, while constantly improving the quality of their lives and those with whom they come in contact with

She will inspire, educate and inform.

Denise Quinlin

Denise Quinlan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Masters in Applied Positive Psychology led by Prof Martin Seligman, founder of the field of Positive Psychology and author of international best-sellers Authentic Happiness, The Optimistic Child and Learned Optimism. Denise has trained teachers in Australia and the UK in the University of Pennsylvania’s ground-breaking Positive Education programme (incorporating the Penn Resiliency Program and Positive Psychology Curriculum). She is currently engaged in doctoral research on positive psychology in schools.

Denise is an experienced facilitator and programme designer with over twenty years experience working across a range of industries in New Zealand and Europe. She translates the latest research findings from positive psychology into practical strategies that can make a difference to well-being and productivity for students and teachers. 

The Ariki Process

Definition: A practice of accountability and a network for school development and improvement. Or: How to be successful at leading learning and still enjoy your job.

The Ariki Team
Dr Wendy Bamford, Principal of Wanaka Primary School, Central Otago; Dr Lyn Bird, Principal Ilam School, Christchurch; Liz Millar, Principal Ngaio School, Wellington; Kay Tester, Principal St Brigid’s School Wellington; Gary Punler, Principal West End School Palmerston North; and Dr David Stewart, Project Director and writer.

The Ariki Presentation
Come and hear five principals tell one story illustrated with an original slide show.     
Be encouraged to exchange your current appraisal process for a process that seeks correlations between what you do and the consequences for teaching and learning in your school.
Hear how collaboration both within and across schools, can be based around evidence of current practice.
Follow examples of professional conversations and reflective critique which helps establish meaning and authenticate purpose for what teachers and school leaders do.
Listen to a process which raises both student attainment and teacher morale.

The Ariki Project provides both a context and a set of protocols, supported by appropriate resources for ensuring that high quality thinking is applied to the work that educators do. This is a session about how a group of NZ principals are each exercising pedagogical leadership in a stimulating and refreshing way. 

Komene Cassidy and Paulette Tamati-Elliffe

Komene and Paulette are activists (... a.k.a te reo-ists!)  for the revitalisation of te reo Maori.  They both work in their community to promote and support the importance of te reo as an intergenerational language of communication for families and communities.  They facilitate culturally based learning opportunities aimed at Maori whanau. They are experienced composers and performers using waiata as a vehicle to promote te reo.  As graduates of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo – the national Academy of Excellence in te reo Maori- they are a leading example of a whanau committed to raising their four sons to be competent, confident, truly bi-lingual and bi-cultural leaders for tomorrow. They are dedicated to creating positive change in Maori communities.

Paulette, is part of the te reo revitalisation strategy team for Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu and is of Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Waitaha and Taranaki descent and has a a wee dram of scottish ancestry for flavour.

Komene, who facilitates the Kainga Korerorero programme for Te Ataarangi, is of Ngai Takoto, Ngapuhi and Irish descent, but was born and raised in bonny Dunedin.
In their spare time, they run their own consultancy business Tenei te Ruru

Mary Chamberlain

Mary Chamberlain is currently Group Manager, Curriculum Teaching and Learning for the New Zealand Ministry of Education.  Teams in her group are responsible for Maori Medium Outcomes, effective teaching, literacy, numeracy, assessment and qualifications, principal leadership and secondary education. She is also currently responsible for the National Standards work programme. 

Mary is passionate about learning.  She led the development of the New Zealand Curriculum and has been closely involved with the development of assessment policies in New Zealand for the last ten years.

In previous positions she has been a classroom teacher, school principal and a regional adviser to schools.

Whetu Cormick

Ko Tainui te waka
Ko Ngati Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga te iwi
Ko Maungatautari te maunga
Ko Rawhitiroa toku Marae
Ko Takihiku toku whare tupuna  

Born and raised in Rotorua, Whetu has previously held two principal’s positions in the Bay of Islands and Auckland areas along with a deputy principal’s position in Taupo. He has been in his current position as principal of Macandrew Intermediate School since 2004.

In 2008 Whetu was the recipient of the Otago Primary Principals' Association's Prestigious Ricoh Study Award which allowed him to travel to the United States to visit performing arts schools in New York and Native American reservation schools in Wisconsin where he looked at formative assessment practices.  A guest lecture speaker at the University of Otago, Whetu is interested in how schools can best structure learning to motivate and engage children particularly Maori and Pasifika students.

Whetu will present his documentary report from the US and talk about how this research project supported the establishment of an arts based class at his school. 

Lester Flockton

Lester Flockton is a graduate of Dunedin Teachers College and the University of Otago. He has extensive experience in New Zealand’s school system as a teacher, principal, inspector of schools, Ministry of Education official, researcher, university teacher, educational thinker and leader.

Throughout his career in education he has worked on many national curriculum committees and projects, including the revised New Zealand Curriculum (2007), led numerous professional development programmes, made dozens of conference presentations, and held office in various professional organisations

He and his colleague Terry Crooks were the prime developers of New Zealand’s National Education Monitoring Project which is widely recognised nationally and internationally.

Lester maintains a wide-ranging interest and involvement in matters impacting on teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and the leadership, governance and management of schools.   He examines the claims of research, policy and practice with a critical mind.

Lester is a Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Director of the Educational Assessment Research Unit at the University of Otago, and the National Education Monitoring Project.  He is a Life Member of the NZPF.

Mark Inglis

Working in New Zealand's Mt Cook National Park as a professional Search and Rescue Mountaineer, Mark's life was forever changed in 1982 after he lost both legs below the knee to frostbite after spending 14 days trapped in an ice cave near the summit of  Mt Cook.

Mark was then forced to change his career so he went to Lincoln College and  graduated with a first class honours degree in human biochemistry. This lead him to a successful career as Senior Winemaker at Montana Wines for ten years. Mark is the author of four books. He is a businessman and also the founding trustee of  the Limbs4All Charitable Trust.  He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to people with disabilities in 2002.

His love of sport and the outdoors has always continued. He's been an international competitor in disabled skiing and has ridden at the highest level with Paralympic cycling. More recently his attention turned back to mountaineering, initially reaching the summit of Mt Cook in 2002, then Cho-Oyu in Tibet in 2004 and in May 2006 Mark achieved his dream and became the first double amputee to stand on the top of Mt Everest.

In his presentation Mark will interpret his experiences and will focus on the themes of meeting challenges, achieving personal excellence and motivating others to be the best they can be

Jeremy Kedian

Jeremy Kedian is the Manager and Senior Consultant of the Educational Leadership Centre in the School of Education at the University of Waikato and works with a range of principals from first time, inexperienced to experienced practitioners. In addition to working with schools and higher education institutions, he also acts as a consultant to commercial organisations on leadership issues.

Each year Jeremy initiates various developmental programmes with colleagues including workshop and seminar series, international study tours, tailored development programmes for educational leaders and exchange programmes for principals and senior leadership teams. His areas of expertise include leadership and organisational development, leadership coaching, strategic and futures development, change management and principal development.

Jeremy is a regular speaker at workshops and conferences in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, South East Asian countries and England.

In addition to his work in the ELC, Jeremy teaches Master of Educational Leadership students at the University of Waikato and supervises educational research.

Kiwi Leadership workshop

The KLP document has been out in our schools now for a couple of years. A group of 14 Principals from across the country and from a diverse range of school communities have been working on a leadership initiative within their schools and these stories have been written up as case studies.

Four of these Principals will share their leadership stories and reflect on what they have learnt through the process.    The Principals presenting their case studies are Helena Baker from Te Kura o Takaro, Highbury, Palmerston North; Denise Torrey from Somerfield School, Christchurch; Pip Wells from Tasman School, Nelson and Peter Witana from Kawakawa Primary School, Bay of Islands.   Their school stories are as diverse as their geographic locations and will provide a great insight into how Principals approach the leadership challenges and goals we all face in our schools.

Helena’s project tells the story of how she worked with her community to design a Marautanga-a-Kura – a school curriculum that would build on both the NZC and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa and capture the combined vision that the school community shared for the tamariki.

Pip’s case study focuses on her efforts as a new Principal with a new staff to build a strong professional team, form positive relationships with the community and focus on learning.   She chose Music as the area the school would focus on for improving student achievement.

Denise will talk about her focus on coaching and building the teaching capacity of her staff, rather than getting bogged down with administration and management.   Her aim was to spend less time on administration and more time supporting staff so that they could enhance learning for students in the school.

Peter’s project has been about building teachers’ leadership skills.   He identified teachers who showed leadership potential within his school and developed their skills and confidence to work with other classroom teachers around the school’s focus on Writing.

Celia Lashlie

A researcher and social commentator, Celia Lashlie worked for 15 years within the Prison Service, starting in December 1985 as the first woman to work as a prison officer in a male prison in New Zealand. Her final role within the Service was as Manager of Christchurch Women’s Prison, a position she left in September 1999.

Celia, who has a degree in anthropology and Maori, is the mother of two adult children. She now works on a number of projects, all of which are linked to improving the lives of at-risk children and empowering families to find their own solutions to the challenges they face.

In September 2004, she completed the ‘Good Man’ project. The project, which facilitated discussion within and between 25 boys’ schools throughout New Zealand, aimed to create a working definition of what makes a good man in the 21st century.

She has written two books; The Journey to Prison: Who goes and why, and He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men.

NEMP Jeff Smith
 Professor Jeffrey K. Smith
Co-Director, National Education Monitoring Project, University of Otago

Since 1995, the Educational Assessment Research Unit of the University of Otago has conducted the National Education Monitoring Project, assessing what children know and can do across the New Zealand curriculum.  Recently, we have undertaken an analysis of data from the most recent administrations of the assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics.  Our goal was to look at the “nuts and bolts” of what New Zealand’s children’s achievement actually looks like in these areas.  We have grouped children at year 4 and year 8 into those performing around the 10th, 30th, 50th, 70th, and 90th percentiles (based on NEMP performance), and then looked carefully at how well they performed on the NEMP tasks that they were given.  Additionally, we have developed innovative approaches for summarizing and presenting these data; our hope is that this analysis will help educators address concerns with the implementation of National Standards.

Computer IT Sessions iii

These session is a showcase of various products, in addition an opportunity to hear a critique of practice from experienced teachers actually USING the products in THEIR classrooms/schools.  
The sessions will be interactive, and in some cases you will get a chance to have a go yourself.  
An opportunity, to see the reality of different technological products.  How they work, what the benefits and pitfalls may be, and what the advantages are for the learning of the children in your school.

1- Whole School Resource Management Solution – Access IT – Martin Neyland

Learn about the latest whole-school resource management solution from Access It.  See what this cost effective latest innovation could do for you and your school.  It’s about management: it’s about efficiency: it’s about reporting: it’s about learners – and it’s about access anywhere, anytime. And it’s all in one solution.

• That’s why it could be the most important software solution you have in your school, for your students and teachers, and for parents

2- A GPS for Students and Teachers! – SuccessMaker NZ – Viv Armstrong

Adaptive Literacy, Numeracy Software
This presentation is a great opportunity for you to see this engaging, individualised, software for yourself. The software is quite unique as  it automatically identifies student needs, selects the path which will address the ongoing needs of each student, carries out ongoing targeted teaching  for each student – teaching with its  own specifically developed courseware, gives instant feed back to students and shares student levels, progress and needs with teachers .for their own classroom intervention. Students make extraordinary progress- and teachers get more time to teach!

3- Steps - NZ Literacy Learning Programme – The Learning Staircase – Jos Harden

Innovative literacy programme develops all processing skills involved in literacy.
Steps has a strong emphasis on vocabulary and language development and incorporates plenty of reinforcement, including games.cumulative, multi-sensory and visually interesting

• extensive wordlists provided, customise with own words and voice recordings
• use independently or to support First Steps and Steps to Literacy workbook courses
• logs to easily track individual’s progress
• full teacher access

4 -Assembly, the new Student Management System Schola – John Dyer

Assembly is the new MoE approved Student Management System.

It is a fully hosted web application giving 24/7 access through a secure environment.
The screen layout and workflow are both very intuitive and training time is greatly reduced as a result.
As well as having full administrative functionality for the team in the school office, Assembly has a prime focus on supporting teachers and management with information that can be analysed and reported on from within the system to assist in evidence based decision making for the benefit of student learning

5- Science and technology - Gifted and Talented – Genesis Energy – Maggie Twaddle

Genesis Energy presents Schoolgen – a programme bringing solar energy to life in schools in a fun and exciting way.  Schoolgen is a programme developed by Genesis Energy (one of New Zealand’s largest energy companies) to bring solar energy to life for children across New Zealand. Why? Because young people are our future leaders and decision makers, and it’s important that they understand the role renewable energy will play in their future. By talking and interacting with them we have a real chance to cultivate environmentally-aware thinking and behaviour; not just theirs, but that of the people around them – their teachers, parents, parent’s colleagues, friends and whole community!

Computer It Presentations Session iv

1- A Principal’s Guide to Establishing a TV Studio – Sitech – William Fitzgerald

This Sitech Systems NZ Ltd presentation is hosted by William Fitzgerald (Diploma in New Media Production) – all attending delegates will assume a variety of production roles in a Television environment.  At the conclusion of this workshop you will have a greater understanding of video production and how to roll it out across your school using the Sitech Systems basic Video Production Studio.

2- Interactive whiteboard technology – ACTIVboardNZ –  Simon Briscoe

Attend this session to learn why over 21% of NZ classrooms are now equipped with interactive whiteboards.

• What things need to be considered when contemplating this technology for your school.
• What are the key differences between the various brands and technologies.
• Future-proofing classrooms now – considerations and mistakes to avoid
• What benefits does interactive technology bring to students, staff …. the school.
• Hard evidence of increases in student attainment.
• What on-going costs need to be considered.
• The opportunity to have your questions answered by a student, a teacher and a principal using this technology.

At ACTIVboardNZ our sole focus is on the successful implementation of interactive technology in New Zealand classrooms. 

3- NZ Curriculum and Learning Opportunities – Virtual Learning School – Rachel Roberts

The purpose of the Virtual Learning Network (VLN) is to extend the curriculum & learning opportunities for our students through the collaboration of schools and elearning. This has been highly effective over the last 7 years in the Secondary School sector particularly in the rural areas and has grown to include approximately 250 schools with enrolments of over 1500 students. The Virtual Learning Network Primary Initiative has begun to explore enabling similar opportunities in the Primary sector. Successful trials have already begun with some schools around the country. With the roll out of fibre nationally, Schools Network Upgrade Project & the fledgling National Education Network along with the challenges smaller rural schools continue face to provide a broader range of curriculum to their students there are some real opportunities to be realized through developing these types of collaborations.

This workshop will showcase what Primary schools have begun to do with online learning collaborations, explore the future opportunities, discuss the MOE initiatives & technologies that will support this and make connections with schools who are interested in participating in this developing initiative.

4- 3pi Whiteboard Solution – Dave Armstrong, Robin Rush, Steve Zonnevylle

3Pi is a New Zealand based interactive whiteboard company run by three Primary School Principals from South Canterbury. With two years of research and development behind us now, we are able to offer New Zealand schools a cost effective answer to your interactive whiteboard issues.We believe that most New Zealand schools struggle to make ends meet financially. Our 3Pi systems are priced in such a way that you could outfit a twelve classroom school (data projectors not included) for the price of one $6,000 interactive whiteboard.  Imagine the savings! At just under $500 per classroom kit, there's effectively no depreciation account issue either.We are also very proud to announce that Sharp NZ have joined forces with us to offer data projector solutions bundled with our gear.

Remarkables Primary School opened its doors to its first pupils in Term 1, 2010. It has staged openings through until four days before our conference is due to start in June when the school will be fully completed. 

This is your chance to see an innovatively designed school that makes the most of its stunning natural landscape while catering for 21st Century learning. You can come and walk on the roof and capture the stunning views of Lake Wakatipu and the Remarkables. Principal Debbie Dixon will also tell us a little of the process involved in designing and building a brand new school.

Tuesday 29th June 2010

3:00 – 9:00pm

Registrations
Queenstown Events Centre

12:45 – 3:30pm

School Visits 
Queenstown Basin Area – Depart Millennium Hotel

6:00 -9:00pm

Opening Ceremony
Queenstown Events Centre

Wednesday 30th June 2010

8:45 – 10:45

Keynote: Dr Tom Mulholland
Main Stage

10:45 – 11:15

Morning tea break

11:15 – 12:45

Concurrent Plenary Session I
See Details on Reverse

12:45 – 2:00

Lunch

2:00 – 3:00

Keynote: Andrew May
Main Stage

3:00 – 3:30

Afternoon tea

3:30 – 5:00

Concurrent Plenary Session II
See Details on Reverse

6:30 – 11:00pm

“Music among the Stars”
Skyline Gondola Restaurant

Thursday 1st July 2010

8:45- 10:00

Keynote: Alison Mooney
Main Stage

10:00 – 10:30

Morning Tea break

10:30 – 12:00

Concurrent Plenary Session III
See Details on Reverse

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00

Keynote session …..it’s a secret

2:00 – 3:30

Concurrent Plenary Session IV
See Details on Reverse

3:30 – 4:00

Afternoon tea

4:00 – 4:45

NZPF AGM
Main Stage

4:45 – 5:30

Catholic Principals AGM
Top Floor

6:00 – 6:30

Church inter-dominational Service
St Josephs Church – reception at Millennium Hotel

Friday 2nd July 2010

8:45 – 10:00

Keynote: Denise Quinlin
Main Stage

10:00 – 10:30

Morning tea

10:30 – 11:00

Address NZPF President Ernie Buutvelt
Main Stage

11.00 – 12.30

Minister of Education: Rt Hon Anne Tolley, Q & A with Minister, NZPF Awards, Conference Prizes, 2011 Presentation, Closing
Main Stage

12.45 - 2.30

Tour to Remarkables Primary

Afternoon

Hauora Leisure Options

7:00 for 7.30pm

Winter Wonderland Gala Dinner
Queenstown Events Centre

11.00-12.30 Concurrent Plenary Session I

Dr Tom Mulholland
Main Stage

Celia Lashlie
City Impact Church

Lester Flockton
Top Floor

Paulette and Komene Cassidy
Computer Suite

3.30-5.00 Concurrent Plenary Session II

Andrew May Interactive
Main Stage

Ariki Project
City Impact Church

Kiwi Leadership Case Studies
Top Floor

Mark Inglis
Computer Suite

Remarkables Primary School Tour

10.30-12.00 Concurrent Plenary Session III

Jeremy Kedian
Top Floor

Allison Mooney
Main Stage

NEMP Jeff Smith
City Impact Church

Access IT, SuccessMaker NZ, The Learning Staircase, Schola, and Genesis Energy presentations
Computer Suite

2.00-3.30 Concurrent Plenary Session IV

Denise Quinlin
Top Floor

Mary Chamberlain
Main Stage

Whetu Cormick
City Impact Church

Sitech, ACTIVboardNZ, Virtual Learning School, and
3pi Whiteboard Solution presentations
Computer Suite

Remarkables Primary School tour