Kirstin has 26 years experience in ECE including teaching, lecturing at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and Te Rito Maioha and as a professional development facilitator at Massey University. She has managed private and non-profit services, multi-services, early childhood professional development for national office of the Ministry of Education, and is now the managing director of Senior Teacher Learning.
Cindy has 16 years experience in the ECE sector with numerous roles including kaiako, head teacher and centre manager. Her primary focus will be on Pasifika cultures and Governance, Management and Administration and will be working towards workshops in 2020 that promote the use of ICT in educational documentation and as well as looking at how to provide a sustainable environment.
Previously an ECE centre manager and social worker, Karin is a highly skilled facilitator specialising in areas including fostering change in assessment for learning, planning, evaluation, internal reviews & social competence.
Bill approaches life as a creative work and believes that compassion lies at the core of what it means to be human. Areas of interest are social work, strategic management, psychology & management and leadership.
Rose Coppen, has 30 years experience in early childhood education. Starting out as a kindergarten teacher, Rose has also been a Head Teacher, Senior Teacher, Manager, Education Specialist for Professional Practice, Facilitator, Tutor and Regional Operations Manager (Home-based).