Puāwai is an rangatahi initiative focussed on exploring identity and intersectonality with diverse youth rōpū
Based in Ōtautahi/Christchurch

Some projects with Ministry of Education

Leadership Lab have worked in collaboration with a number of providers on some exciting initiatives

Grow Waitaha

How do we build collaboration between over 150 schools in Greater Christchurch to rebuild and renew their learning programmes post-earthquake?

A multi-year collaboration between schools, Ministry of Education, Ngāi Tahu and consultancies to explore future focussed pedagogy including student agency, collaborative teaching, flexible learning spaces, cultural narratives, authentic curriculum and diverse partnerships.

Our involvement

  • Leadership development
  • Strategy and vision
  • Culture change
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Team facilitation

Areas of impact

  • Equitable education
  • Thriving workplaces
  • Enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Radical inclusion
  • Hauora and wellbeing
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Grow Waitaha

Puāwai

How do we support diverse rangatahi who are potential leaders, disruptors and innovators but who have experienced discrimination because of their identity?

Puāwai is a three-month experience for approximately 40 rangatahi/young people aged 15-18 designed to connect and develop a diverse network of “potential leaders, innovators, disruptors, drivers” and help them develop real skills, knowledge.

Our involvement

  • Leadership development
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Team facilitation

Areas of impact

  • Enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Hauora and wellbeing
  • Radical inclusion
  • Tranformative learning
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Puāwai

Leaders’ Connect

How do we provide a regular accessible way for isolated educational leaders to connect and grow?

Leaders’ Connect is an interactive, relational, online space for education leaders with the following objectives:

  • Provide a safe place of connection for education leaders within NZ
  • Support leaders’ wellbeing
  • Gain fresh leadership knowledge and capacity
  • Create professional connection via an online platform
  • Provide a space for learning and sharing innovative practices and ideas

Our involvement

  • Leadership development
  • Culture change
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Strategy and vision

Areas of impact

  • Enacting Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Hauora and wellbeing
  • Radical inclusion
  • Transformative learning
  • Thriving relationships
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Leaders’ Connect