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Tui Tuia | Learning Circle empowers Kāhui Ako, kaiako, teachers, school leaders and tumuaki to achieve better outcomes for students and learners.

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Māori Education & Support

Our kaiwhakaruruhau specialise in facilitating kaupapa Māori professional learning and development.

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Languages, Culture & Identity

We offer programmes, workshops, in-person classroom support, online support and resources to help strengthen language learning in New Zealand schools.

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Empowering educators, students, and communities to shape a future of educational excellence that is firmly rooted in Pacific identity and aspirations.

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We work with schools to build the literacy and numeracy capability of school leaders and teachers to accelerate learning outcomes for all students.

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Dr Jacoba Matapo

Academic Nagivator - Pacific-Led Education

Jacoba Matapo is an Associate Professor in Pacific Early Learning in the School of Education at AUT University, specialising in Pasifika early childhood education and Pacific education research. She is of Samoan Dutch heritage, born and raised in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Jacoba’s passion for Pasifika education has stemmed from personal experience navigating cultural, political, and social tensions in her education and research journey.

Her academic contributions centre indigenous Pacific community and collective engagement, which informs her research, teaching and service. A particular focus of her academic practice includes activating Pacific philosophies and relational ontologies to confront education politics and discourse that continue subjugating Pacific people's language, culture, spirituality and identity in education outcomes.

In Pasifika early childhood education, her research mobilises Pacific pedagogies for young Pacific children, traversing Pacific epistemologies and ways of being. In her professional career, Jacoba's leadership experience includes ECE centre management, programme leadership of ITE, and senior leadership as an Associate Dean Pasifika at the University of Auckland.

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