Accredited Facilitators
Our team of skilled, experienced, Ministry of Education Accredited Facilitators will work with you to design tailored, personalised Professional Learning Development programmes for your school, kura, or early childhood education setting.
Click on the link above to see our list of facilitators on the Massey website
Massey University Staff
Keri Cheetham
Kaihautū Matua | Co-ordinating Director
Keri has worked in a variety of roles and education settings which has given her an extensive knowledge of current early childhood theory and practice. It is this knowledge and experience that has been invaluable in working alongside clients to design tailored PLD programmes that achieve the desired outcomes. Alongside her ECE knowledge, Keri has also gained considerable experience with building collaborative partnerships across the education sector.
Christine Braid
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Ph.D, M.Ed (Hons), B.Ed, DipTchg, DipChildLit
Christine has taught in New Zealand Primary Schools with a specialised interest in teaching literacy, worked in initial Teacher Education programmes with a focus on literacy teaching and as an Adviser to Schools (Literacy), and her studies at Masters and PhD level have focused on classroom application in literacy. Christine values a partnership of ako where everyone learns from each other, and she is successful in her work by incorporating what she learns from the practice of many accomplished and creative teachers.
Ken Kilpin
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Ken is committed to a strong and progressive public secondary school system in New Zealand. He has worked to support teachers’ professional learning and development in bicultural boarding schools, low and high decile co-educational and single-sex schools, and special character schools, supporting teachers’ professional learning and development. Ken also helps co-ordinate and deliver short courses that promote effective pedagogy and practices to a range of visiting international academic and educational groups. Many of these involve university and secondary school partnerships.
Sally Roberts
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
B.Ed, Higher DipTchg, Kindergarten Diploma
Sally has wide experience in the early childhood sector as a teacher and professional learning facilitator. She has developed trusting relationships with kaiako in many regions in Aotearoa. She accesses the latest research and readings to keep up-to-date professionally to allow her to support kaiako and teams to develop and maintain a reflective approach to practice.
Lesieli Tongati’o
Kaihautū Mātauranga Pasifka / Pasifka Sector Leader
Ph.D, M.Ed, B.Ed (Hons), DipTchg
Lesieli has a passion for education with a wealth of experience and a wide network of contacts across Aotearoa and the Pacific region. She has championed Pasifika leadership, research and evaluation, knowledge, theories, processes and methodologies across Pasifika and non-Pasifika worlds, in the public service, education sectors and communities. Lesieli brings a confident and trusted Pasifika voice, authentic Pasifika knowledge, skills and experiences connecting across different contexts and curriculum areas across Te Whāriki and its links to the New Zealand Curriculum Framework.
Misha Shamdass
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Misha has extensive secondary school teaching and leading experience, with success for Māori learners a central focus of her work as PLD facilitator. Her approach is underpinned by a deep respect for context and she is able to influence positively through modelling the principle of whakawhanaungatanga to build relational trust in order to magnify existing knowledge and strengths of kaiako and leaders of schools. Misha strives to develop inclusive practices that ensure success for all learners using culturally responsive and relational pedagogies, which, in turn, supports leaders to create cohesion between the New Zealand Curriculum, schools’ visions and strategic plans, while supporting them to build their evaluative capability.
Ngāwai Haitana-Tuhoro
Kaitakawaenga Mātauranga Māori | Māori Education Facilitator
Ngāti Rangi, Te Atihaunui ā Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
B. Ed, Te Aho Tātairangi Massey University
Ngāwai is a kura kaupapa trained kaiako with over 15 years of experience in Kōhanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa, Primary School and Secondary Schools across Aotearoa. Ngāwai’s areas of expertise include Mātauranga Māori, Te Reo me ōna tikanga, culturally responsive and relationship-based pedagogy and NZQA & Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
Click here to view Ngāwai Haitana-Tuhoro’s Summary of Practice
Raewyn Eden
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Ph.D, M.Ed, DipTchg
Raewyn is a lecturer in mathematics education (primary) in the Institute of Education, Massey University. Her experience includes teaching in diverse schools, particularly at the primary level but also across early childhood education, secondary and tertiary contexts, in New Zealand and the Cook Islands. Raewyn is interested in how teachers can be supported to engage in ambitious teaching that promotes rich learning for all students.
Rāhera Filiata
Kaitakawaenga Mātauranga Māori | Māori Medium Facilitator
Ngai Tūhoe
B.Ed.
Rāhera is a facilitator in Māori Medium education at Te Pūtahi-a-Toi (School of Māori Knoweldge), Massey University. She has taught in both Māori Medium and English Medium settings.
Jacky Yoshioka-Braid
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
B.A, DipTchg, GradCertTEAL, GradCertTPDL
Jacky’s expertise includes teaching English as a Second Language, Japanese, and Digital Technology across the secondary and tertiary sectors both in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. With a bicultural background, Jacky was born and educated in New Zealand but has also taught in Japan, and has been able to apply her personal experience of standing between two cultures to her teaching in New Zealand and in Japan. Her experiences have enabled her to appreciate and contribute a unique perspective with a culturally responsive practice in teaching.
Gwen Gilmore
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Ph.D, M.Ed, PGDipTchg, DipSLT, B.A.
Gwen has over thirty years experience in the early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary education sectors. Her areas of expertise include leadership, intercultural contexts and systems, literacy, inquiry-based learning, curriculum in ECE and other contexts, appraisal, coaching, and mentoring. Gwen is pragmatic in supporting educational settings to develop their values, attitudes and beliefs, knowledge and skills. Her practices are underpinned by equity principles and supporting kaiako and tamariki to reach their potential.
Rachel Beazley
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
B.Tchg (ECE), PGCertLdrshp (ECE)
Rachel’s key areas of strength include cultural competencies, leadership and appraisal, coaching and mentoring, assessment and planning, curriculum and programme development, effective internal evaluation, and advocacy. Rachel’s experiences working in the early childhood sector across a variety of services and age groups have enabled her to work collaboratively with all services to enhance current programmes working on an inclusive, culturally responsive, strength-based approach to professional learning and development.
Huinga Jackson-Greenland
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Huinga originally trained as a primary school teacher at Auckland’s Epsom Teachers College, but has for the last twenty years been involved in advocating for and promoting the value and importance of early childhood education for children and families/whānau. Her particular passion is Māori education and her depth of cultural knowledge and understanding has developed over years of working alongside a diverse range of teachers in both the primary and early childhood sectors.
Salà Tagiolelagi-Leota
Kaitakawaenga | Facilitator
Ph.D, M.A, B.A
Salà has more than twenty years experience working in the early childhood sector and has acquired a wealth of expertise in cultural knowledge and pedagogy. Her professional roles have included lecturer, senior lecturer, and programme leads in areas spanning transition, assessment, literacy, human development, professional practice and research. Over her time in the sector, her experiences have driven her passion to see equitable learning opportunities created for children and those involved in teaching and learning. Salà’s areas of strength include Pasifika education, ECE curriculum, research, assessment, transition, culture, language and identity, and leadership and cultural pedagogy.
Contracted Facilitators
In addition to our team of permanent Massey University facilitation staff, Tātai Angitu have also partnered with a number of external contractors with a wide range of expertise and skills.
Martin Hughes
With over 13 years experience working in schools in New Zealand and beyond, Martin delivers professional learning experiences that are meaningful, memorable and motivating. He is passionate about linking technologies with school goals to ensure enhanced learning experiences and capabilities. Martin is a certified Google and Apple trainer, and is also a Ministry of Education Accredited Facilitator.
Jean Annan
Jean is a registered psychologist, director of Positively Psychology, and a Ministry of Education Accredited Facilitator. She has extensive experience in researching and evaluating the conditions that foster active, positive participation of young people and those who support them. Jean works to bring psychology knowledge to teachers, leaders, whānau, and organisations that support the learning and wellbeing of children, facilitating an understanding of how healthy brain functioning and experience can support children’s wellbeing and their ability to learn.
Trudy Francis
With nearly 20 years experience working in the sector, Trudy has been recognised in New Zealand and Australia as a leader in literacy, curriculum integration, the key competencies, higher-order thinking and the habits of mind. She has strived to develop her capacity in using teaching strategies which promote high levels of student responsibility and achievement; by developing and sustaining communities of learners, using an integrated curriculum, higher-order thinking skills, and goal setting.
Jeff King
Jeff has been involved in education in New Zealand, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Middle East for over 20 years. He has extensive experience working alongside teachers, leaders, and administrators to improve their school-wide systems in order to provide better and more effective environment for teachers and students. Jeff has a Masters in Applied Linguistics and has a particular interest in the youth transition space and youth well-being. Jeff is also the co-founder of the app MyMahi which helps young people discover strengths and build future pathways.
Mark Callagher
Mark has 20 years Secondary Teaching experience in a number of curriculum areas, and has worked in a variety of leadership roles. With over ten years experience as a professional development facilitator, he has led school-wide change-management projects to improve and simplify digital technology capability. Mark has co-designed effective PLD programmes with school management and HODs that have led to sustained improvement in pedagogy and more engaged students. He is also currently the Director of Education for MyMahi.
