Empower your Impact : Tools for Tackling Classroom Challenges(Teacher Aides)

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Event Date:

24 Jul 2025

Event Time:

09:30 AM - 02:30 PM

EMPOWER YOUR IMPACT: Tools for Tackling Classroom Challenges

A one day conference for Teacher Aides and those in support roles

Join us for an engaging and hands-on mini conference designed specifically for teacher aides!

This event will provide you with practical tools and strategies to support students with challenging behaviours in the classroom.

Learn how to foster a positive learning environment, implement effective behaviour management techniques, and collaborate with teachers to help all students succeed.

Whether you’re dealing with disruptions, attention-seeking behaviors, or students who need extra support, this conference will equip you with the skills and confidence to make a lasting impact.

Perfect for both new and experienced aides looking to enhance their classroom expertise!

NB Limited to 60 places

KEYNOTE	PRESENTER	FOCUS
Welcome/Keynote 9.30am	Jo Williams
Workshop 1: 10am-11am	Various presenters	3 workshop options
Workshop 2: 11.30am-12.30pm	Various presenters	3 workshop options
Workshop 3: 1pm-2pm	Various presenters	3 workshop options
Keynote : 2pm-2.30pm	Jo Williams

Pio Terei shares his korero on re-calibrating your life in these challenging times.
He will MC for us again at our Leadership conference in 2021.

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Jo has been teaching for over 30 years and teaches at Laingholm Primary School, out West. She has been a mentor and facilitator to beginning teachers for over 15 years, previously for Kohia Education Centre and then for Learning Network as well as the PCT Manukau Programme.

Although Jo has taught across the age ranges, including ECE, she is passionate about new entrant/Year 1 children and believes that new entrant teaching is a specialised area which is why she runs courses/offers consultation for new entrant teachers at the start of the year or who take on a new entrant class mid-year. Her strengths also lie in developing early numeracy and literacy skills and she runs courses in these areas specifically aimed at children aged 4-6 years old.

Embedded in Jo’s philosophy is a desire to keep courses practical, realistic and visual with an emphasis on integration across the curriculum. Having been a One Day School teacher for the Gifted and Talented Centre, she also believes in the importance of fostering inquiring minds and a sense of wonder in children and developing a questioning and thinking culture in the learning environment.

Jo has taught in a range of schools both in the UK and in Auckland, particularly in multi-cultural schools. She has been an ESOL/ELLs teacher.

Biohacking Resilience & Wellbeing

Based on extensive research, this workshop helps people to increase their own wellbeing.

Understand human energy, what increases it and how to use it best
Circadian and ultradian rhythms and how they impact on learning
Manage their time and energy and more effectively.
Manage timelines and demands in ways that minimises stress and worry.
Identify the most powerful ways of promoting personal well-being.

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Andrew Fuller

As a clinical psychologist, Andrew Fuller works with many schools and communities in Australia and internationally, specialising in the wellbeing of young people and their families. He is a Fellow of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne.

Andrew has been a principal consultant to the national drug prevention strategy REDI, the ABC on children’s television shows, is an Ambassador for Mind Matters and is a member of the National Coalition Against Bullying.

He is the author of TRICKY KIDS, GUERILLA TACTICS FOR TEACHERS, HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED AT SCHOOL, (RAISING REAL PEOPLE (ACER), FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING (ACER), WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER and BEATING BULLIES. Andrew has also co-authored a series of programs for the promotion of resilience and emotional intelligence used in over 3500 schools in Britain and Australia called THE HEART MASTERS.

Andrew has established programs for the promotion of mental health in schools, substance abuse prevention, and the reduction of violence and bullying, suicide prevention programs and for assisting homeless young people. Andrew continues to counsel young people.

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Choose from one of the following:

Lisa Sparey : Neurodiversity

This session will outline neurodiversity whilst sharing skills, approaches and practical ideas to support children with diverse needs in a respectful relationship focused way. The main goal in helping children with learning differences is to enable them to achieve their true potential as a learner whilst also building their self esteem.

Interactive warm up games (suitable to use with children)
Understanding the basic indicators of Neurodiversity
Approaches and strategies to support students
Practical ideas to use in the classroom
Possible resources to use with students
Reflection and questions

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Jo Williams

Building our knowledge and understanding of the essential Foundation Skills needed for student development and learning;

A range of practical ideas to develop:

Gross motor skills and spatial awareness
Memory and attention Skills
Fine motor skills
Visual and auditory skills

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, INNOVATOR, FUTURIST AND SPEAKER

Shay’s passions lie in the combination of social innovation and education with indigenous knowledge and contemporary business thinking. He uses this mix to disrupt the status quo.

Shay is an indigenous social entrepreneur, who has spoken on stages across the world, set up several enterprises, won numerous national and international awards, and held multiple Government and indigenous enterprises advisory roles. In 2016 Shay was named in the Forbes Asia ‘30 Under 30’ list of top Social Entrepreneurs. Recently Shay was a finalist for 2019 Young New Zealander of the Year.

He is a co-founder of Te Whare Hukahuka, a social enterprise aiming to improve the lives of 10 million indigenous people. Te Whare Hukahuka has developed and runs training programmes that empower indigenous leaders in their ability to grow community enterprises, create local impact and revolutionise our system.

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Chris Clay

Chris lives in Auckland, New Zealand and has focused his entire career helping teams maximise their collective potential to create and test new ideas.

Whilst he has worked in a diverse range of sectors, his current work is mostly influenced through his previous life as a school teacher. Whilst teaching high school science, he began to develop ways to help individuals benefit from the collective intelligence and experiences of the classroom communities to which they belonged. He began to explore ways that he could teach his class as if he were interacting with an ecosystem rather than working with a set of individuals.

This work was recognised with a number of awards including being named Global Innovative Educator of the year by Microsoft in 2011. By 2013 he had left the classroom and became the founding Education Director of a successful education start-up. A few years later he founded Education-Unleashed and have since been focusing his efforts on helping a wide range of organisations take a participative and collective approach to knowledge building, problem solving and strategy.

In addition to his consultancy and advisory work he is also a skilled communicator and often provides keynote talks for audiences around the world including a talk on the TEDx stage in Christchurch, NZ. Recently he became a guest presenter for New Zealand’s state TV Broadcaster, TVNZ.

In addition to being the founder and Director of Education Unleashed he is also:

A Partner and Director of We Create Futures;
A faculty member of Boma NZ; and
Founder of futures thinking initiative BrightSpots.
The Director of Futures Thinking at Diocesan School for Girls.

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Choosing our Story – How an indigenous worldview can help us shape our future

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Leading and Learning on a plate

Gordon Ramsey has one heck of a reputation, very mixed, but what is evident is that he cares deeply, passionately and seriously about the food his patrons receive, this drives his passion, high expectations energy and sometimes bad behaviour. How much do we care about what our children receive on their plate, how far are we prepared to go, how well do we teach, coach, challenge and support our cooks- our teachers, leaders and tamariki?

Neill will explore a different perspective of leadership and how leadership impacts on the nurture and learning our tamariki receive….and fair warning he is passionate at times he may use some of Gordon’s infamous vocabulary!

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Business owner, international consultant, school principal, cluster leader, coach, mentor, speaker and passionate educator.
After four years in Honk Kong I returned to New Zealand in July 2021 to establish a high quality early childhood centre in Canterbury and to continue with my passion as a educational leader through consulting, speaking and supporting schools and leadership teams around New Zealand and in Hong Kong.
Prior to heading home I had the privilege of leading Kowloon Junior School (KJS) in Hong Kong. KJS is an international school of 900 Y1-6 students.
In addition to leading KJS I was the chair of the ESF Primary Principals Group, the Chair of the ESF Executive Leadership Council, a member of the ESF Board and a member of the Committee of Principals.
During the last years while in Hong Kong (2017-2021) I continued to share my research regarding the benefits and opportunities of co-teaching and collaborative practice.
I have been an invited speaker to a range of groups including a Keynote to the National Conference for New Zealand Principals Federation, Keynote to the Waikato Principals Association and most recently I have been invited to share my experiences of leading through crisis with Furnware NZ.
In addition to the various leadership roles that I am involved in I also have the pleasure of mentoring new principals supporting schools with strategic development and mentoring an educational technology company.

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Future Focused Leadership

Chris will share some thinking and tools that relate to integrating futures thinking into leadership practice by helping expand thinking about what ‘the future’ could actually be. He will also touch on the idea of collective intelligence approaches to examining possibility and decision making.

While the future only exists in our imagination, we rarely take the time to consider how we imagine the future. While this might at first seem somewhat ‘academic’, the biases and assumptions that guide our visions of the future, impact the decisions we make and the futures we create.

This session will bring together Chris’s deep educational knowledge and insights from the disciplines of strategic foresight and Futures Studies. As well as thinking about the future, Chris will demonstrate tools and techniques that can help leaders bring their teams together to connect aspirations for the future to actions in the present.

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Former professional boxer, Dave Letele (AKA Brown Buttabean), is a South Auckland community leader who uses his platform to advocate for families in need.

Having grown up with a father who was the president of the Mongrel Mob and in and out of prison throughout his childhood, Dave understands what it means to struggle.

It took Dave a near-death experience to pull him out of a downward spiral. From there, he embarked on a journey that led to him owning several businesses, playing rugby league all over the world, becoming a professional boxer, losing almost 100 kg in body weight, and starting over.

Dave is an inspiration to thousands of Kiwis, achieving his transformation purely through hard work and dedication. Starting his platform via his private Facebook group where over 10,000 people have achieved life-changing levels of weight loss, Dave went on to found his company Buttabean Motivation (BBM), where he and his team are currently working with public health and social service providers across Auckland to deliver his highly effective BBM programs to improve the health outcomes for obese people.

Often consulted by the media, and even the former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, Dave’s bold and no-nonsense approach has changed thousands of lives in his community and around New Zealand. In 2022, Dave was awarded with the Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the year Award for his incredible work across Aotearoa.

Nothing quite beats a real story straight from the heart, Dave will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions where you will come out the other side understanding the power of determination, perseverance, hard work, taking that first step and hope!

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Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions for leaders

Ngahihi o te ra Bidois knows that leadership requires influence and influence requires engaging, enabling and empowering your personal and professional leadership. He will speak from his Professional leadership experiences as a manager in a multinational corporate, a Secondary School Head of Department, a Teachers College lecturer, a Kura Kaupapa Maori teacher, an Academic Adviser, a Senior manager in the tertiary Education sector and a Company Director before starting his own businesses.

Ngahihi will outline keys to help you engage, enable and empower the most important person you will ever lead – yourself!

Ngahihi believes that leadership starts with the person in the mirror and refers to ancient wisdom from his Maori culture and others as Modern Solutions for you. You will be challenged by his leadership principles and inspired by his leadership journey. Ancient Wisdom Modern Solutions for leaders.

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