Learning & development webinar

Trauma-informed practices for supporting children with challenging behaviour

With more children entering early childhood centres with complex needs, this webinar with Lucy Wood will support you to transform challenging moments into opportunities for growth, resilience, and connection, and to create safe, supportive environments that promote the wellbeing of both tamariki and kaiako.

Preventing bullying in schools – what works, and what risks making it worse

This webinar with international bullying expert Dr Karyn Healy explores what decades of research reveal about successful strategies for preventing and responding to bullying.

Understanding Developmental Language Disorder and how it can affect learning

Speech pathologist Vanessa Leaver talks about DLD, how it can affect children and young people at school, and how to support students with DLD in the classroom

Learning to solve problems and think creatively in makerspaces

Exploring ideas and practices that enhance student ownership and autonomy in afterschool makerspaces

Using trauma-informed practices to support neurodivergent students

Tami Harris of Acorn Neurodiversity explores how using a trauma-informed lens to support neurodivergent students in school settings can help teachers to mitigate challenges

Supporting children with a range of needs in early childhood settings

Dr Vicki Hargraves talks about how teachers can develop supportive, inclusive pedagogies and environments that nurture all learners.

Autism and culturally responsive practice

Dr Jessica Tupou (Victoria University Wellington) shares insights from her ongoing research into supporting autistic children and the importance of taking a culturally responsive approach

Supporting the transition to school

This webinar with Jennifer Neill offers valuable insights and practical strategies to ensure a child’s transition from early childhood education to school is as smooth and positive as possible

Establishing positive educational trajectories in early childhood education

Professor Claire McLachlan and colleagues share their project exploring how early childhood settings can inspire positive educational trajectories among young children

Creating a culture of inclusion in early childhood settings

Dr Kate McAnelly shares her research into disability and inclusion, and how early childhood centres can create a culture of inclusion that supports the wellbeing, learning, and engagement of all children

Understanding Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Kim Milne (principal advisor at FASD-CAN) discusses what FASD is, how it affects children and adolescents and what teachers and schools can do to support students with FASD

Understanding and supporting children’s movement and development

International expert Gill Connell discusses the range of movement patterns children need to be engaging with to support their holistic development

Supporting positive food environments in early childhood settings

Gabrielle Orr discusses the research into effective nutrition and feeding practices that support children to develop a positive relationship with food and their bodies.

Representations of children in social media

The key insights from our webinar with Madeleine Dobson on the way children are represented on social media platforms and the importance of considering children's rights and perspectives.

Teachers supporting children, whānau, and communities post-disaster

Professor Carol Mutch (University of Auckland) shares her research from over 12 years of supporting schools through different disasters and crises both in Aotearoa and the wider Asia-Pacific

Movement for learning: Q&A with Gill Connell

This webinar is a sequel to our 2021 webinar, exploring the role of movement in children’s learning and development, and how teachers can support children.

Trauma-informed early childhood education

Caring and trauma-informed approaches can make a world of difference to young children, their wellbeing, and their learning.

Early transitions into, between, and out of early childhood education

This webinar speaks to earliest transitions in early childhood education as threads of significance in and across time.

Transitions from early childhood education to school – Part 2

This webinar examines the Pathways section of Te Whāriki and its potential to support learning as children transition from early childhood education to school.

Supporting children’s physical development from ages 0-7

Exploring the role movement plays in child development and how teachers can support children to be develop gross and fine motor skills.

Understanding and enhancing young children’s transitions – Part 1

Sally Peters and Hazel Woodhouse from the University of Waikato explore transitions in the early years.

Bullying and aggression in early childhood education

This webinar explores how bullying develops in early childhood and how to spot it, activities and strategies to prevent bullying from occurring.

Executive function and supporting positive behaviour

Dr Megan McClelland and Dr Shauna Tominey discuss executive function – the skills that help us to plan, focus, regulate our behavior, remember instructions and complete tasks.