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Takaia ki te reo: Wrapped in the language

Thirteen year old Takaimaania Ngata-Henare is a national table tennis champion, who has travelled around the world playing competitively.

“If you’re too big to serve, you’re too small to lead!”

“If you’re too big to serve, you’re too small to lead!” Introducing the newest member of the recruitment whānau,

Nyra Marshall on re-Indigenising education

Barrister and solicitor turned teacher turned Teach First NZ Programme Kaihāpai Teacher Educator, Nyra Marshall (Kairapu alumni of Cohort

Kieran Gainsford on Education Research

Tāmaki-ki-te-Tonga (South Auckland) PPTA Coordinator, compelling chemistry teacher and education scholar, Kieran Gainsford started out his Ako Mātātupu journey

Breaking in the right way

Felicity Powell is in her first year of the Teach First NZ Programme. Her day job is a Computer

Building partnerships to disrupt inequities in NZ education

“Ehara taku toa I te toa takitahi. Engari, te toa takitini.” My strength is not the strength of one;