Coming in April 2026

This webinar with Professor Kate Williams will provide early childhood teachers with evidence-based guidance to navigate neuroscience in education, distinguish fact from myth, and strengthen professional practice.

Coming in May 2026

This webinar for early childhood and school teachers and leaders will share insights from research by Professor Sally Peters and Dr Hazel Woodhouse which highlights the powerful role of early childhood settings, schools, Settlement Centre staff, and families in supporting positive educational experiences and transitions.

Coming in June 2026

Associate Professor Gloria Quiñones from Monash University explores how infants and toddlers’ interactions with their bodies, peers, environments, and even non-human entities can be supported through thoughtful, slow pedagogies.

Coming in July 2026

In this webinar, Professor Amanda Bateman from Birmingham City University will explore the sequences of talk that occur during shared inquiry in early childhood settings, demonstrating how teaching and learning are co-constructed — one utterance at a time — between teachers and children.

Coming in August 2026

This webinar with Lisa Winiata from Kaitiaki Kindergartens and Tami Harris from Acorn Neurodiversity will share findings from the research partnership between Kaitiaki Kindergartens and Acorn Neurodiversity which investigated how kaiako can support neurodivergent tamariki through the transition to school.

Tuesday 15 September 2026, 7.30pm

In this live webinar, experienced early childhood teacher and leader Alistair Gibbs will explore the reciprocal relationship between leadership and wellbeing, and how relational approaches can strengthen both.

Coming in October 2026

In this dynamic webinar, Kelly Goodsir & Kirsty Liljegren, founders of The Creative Collection, will share innovative ways to ignite learning through the visual arts.

Coming in November 2026

In this webinar, Dr Sarah Probine from Auckland University of Technology will share insights from a collaborative project undertaken with kaiako, children, and whānau in six early childhood settings. The project explored how bicultural and place-based approaches can deepen children’s connections to their local environments and strengthen shared knowledge-building across communities.