PLD Options

Our Discover Kagan 60 min Intro sessions are the best way to decide if embarking on Kagan PLD is for your school or Kahio Akō. Any PLD requires both a time and financial commitment, so being able to have your whole staff, or Kahui Akō team experience Kagan before making a decision is a service we are only too happy to provide.

Combined with this, we also offer Fishbowls where we will run Kagan Structures with your students. (Believe it or not, some teachers think it’s easy to use Kagan with adults, but don’t believe it will work with children..!)

Running a workshop with teachers from the same school community is our most popular and sought-after option. School leaders frequently choose to include Teacher Aides, Release Teachers, along with any other educators who are involved with the school on a regular basis, ensuring that everyone is represented in the professional development experience.

A Kagan workshop will bring your staff together, and is a day of learning, sharing, relationship building and networking - perfect for large primary or intermediate schools and secondary schools which can become quite compartmentalised.

icture this: meetings that embody true manaakitanga, where professional dialogue flows naturally and every voice enriches the conversation. Kagan’s Cooperative Meetings transforms traditional staff meetings into vibrant professional learning communities.

We've found that when meetings mirror the engaging practices we want in our classrooms, magic happens. Decisions become shared journeys rather than top-down directives (goodbye, endless email threads!), and cross-curricular collaboration flourishes.

For tumuaki and team leaders, this means practical strategies that honour both curriculum goals and local priorities while building a more connected, energised teaching team.

Kagan’s strategies create powerful consistency in teaching approaches, supporting hauora, and fostering leadership across all our learning spaces within the Kāhui Ako.

Our comprehensive workshops are thoughtfully designed to enhance every aspect of our educational practice, reflecting the principles of ako and whanaungatanga that are central to New Zealand education. Whether you're teaching in a junior hub or guiding senior students through NCEA, Kagan's structured approaches support the key competencies and help create inclusive, culturally responsive learning environments. The workshops delve into evidence-based cooperative learning strategies, effective behaviour management aligned with PB4L, wellbeing approaches that support Ka Hikitia, and leadership development that builds tuakana-teina relationships naturally.

By weaving these strategies into our local curriculum, we strengthen our collective capacity to deliver the kinds of learning experiences that define excellent education in Aotearoa. When every learning space across our Kāhui Ako hums with purposeful collaboration, we're truly embodying the spirit of "ako mai, ako atu" - learning together, growing together.

At times over the year we run open workshops where individual teachers attend the training.

Research shows that there is a much better success rate with implementation when either a whole school or faculty train together.

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