Join a community of educators who refuse to settle for ordinary
Upcoming Seminar
Upcoming Seminar
Agency lives where choice meets responsibility — and where teachers lead the way. Derek Wenmoth invites us to rethink what designing for agency really means.
Derek Wenmoth is a highly respected New Zealand educator with experience as a teacher, principal, teacher educator, distance learning leader and policy adviser, spanning decades of leadership across the schooling sector. He co-founded CORE Education and now leads FutureMakers, and was recognised internationally in 2008 as one of the “Global Six” by the George Lucas Educational Foundation for his impact on education innovation.
2026 Seminars
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25 February
Agency lives where choice meets responsibility — and where teachers lead the way. Derek Wenmoth invites us to rethink what designing for agency really means.
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25 March
People heal people. Jase Williams unpacks how authenticity, aroha, and connection create the safety children need to regulate, belong, and learn.
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29 April
Understanding changes everything. Kim Milne brings a brain-based lens to behaviour, helping educators support learners with FASD — with clarity, compassion, and care.
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27 May
Extraordinary learning lives in everyday moments. Peter O’Connor invites teachers to notice, wonder, play — and teach as if it truly matters.
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24 June
Change is personal before it’s procedural. Dr Mark Osborne shows how honouring loss, uncertainty, control, and belonging creates the conditions for meaningful, lasting change.
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29 July
Leadership doesn’t grow by waiting to be chosen. Kate Horton explores self-driven leadership growth in education.
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11 August
What’s new, what stays, and what matters most. Lucie Cheeseman shows how rich tasks, strong relationships, and good teaching remain the foundation of effective mathematics.
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16 September
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21 October
Honest stories matter. Sydney Robertson brings a PCT’s voice to the table — reminding us that growth comes through support, reflection, and believing you belong.
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11 November
Children already carry the spark. Morgan McKeen challenges us to slow down, step back, and create space where curiosity can lead STEM learning.
The everyday. Collective
The 10%. You're obsessed. Not with being perfect - with being better. You're the one asking "but why?" in staff meetings. You try new things. You're constantly curious. You refuse to coast. This is for you.
Rural Teachers. Access to educational experts without the unseen burden of extensive travel rural teachers endure. Participate in a professional community, all without leaving your couch.
Beginning Teachers. The perfect 12 month plan of of high impact PLD and educational community that any beginning teacher can benefit from. Attend with or without your mentor teacher.
Team Leaders. Stay in touch with new ideas and inspiring thought leadership from leading thinkers. Use the practical coaching activities provided in each session with your own team.
Wait. Who are the 10%?
The 10% swim upstream. Quietly. While everyone else drowns in complaints, you're wondering how to make tomorrow's lesson better. You care - deeply - but you've learned not to show it because caring makes you a target for cynicism.
You're tired of pretending teaching is just a job. It's not. It's a craft. And you're one of the last ones still treating it that way. The 10% is you.
The noise is loud right now. Come find the others who are still listening.
“Teaching is a tough, all encompassing, wear your heart on your sleeve everyday gig. everyday. is here to help teachers, leaders, and people who work with our young people be inspired and make a difference for our tamariki and rangatahi everyday.“
The everyday. Journal
everyday. is a professionally curated educational journal celebrating collaboration, curiosity and kindness in education in Aotearoa that showcases the voices of everyday practitioners — teachers, leaders and contributors whose work reflects deep thinking and purposeful practice. Each issue brings together inspiring articles and interviews with educators exploring meaningful topics such as collaboration, feedback, wellbeing, learner agency, trauma-informed practice and culturally responsive pedagogy, all grounded in real Aotearoa contexts and experiences.
What sets everyday. apart is its interactive and reflective design: every piece is followed by coaching-style prompts that invite you to pause, reflect and connect what you’re reading back to your own classroom or leadership context. These prompts help you think deeply about your beliefs, practice and goals — making the journal not just something to read, but something to work through individually or with your team to drive meaningful professional growth.
Alongside the journal itself, The Everyday Collective extends the experience into an active professional community where educators can connect with peers and expert voices through sessions, curated resources and weekly prompts designed to support ongoing reflection and practice development. Whether you’re a beginning teacher, a rural educator seeking connection without travel burden, or a leader looking for rich thought leadership, everyday. offers practical inspiration, connection and collective learning that celebrates and strengthens the craft of teaching across Aotearoa.
The everyday. Story
Initially everyday.org.nz was purchased to set up a running in schools programme.
Disheartened by the fitness levels in students and with an underlying belief that kids would enjoy more time outside (rather than in a classroom all day) Lizzie wanted to set up a running programme inspired by a programme that runs in the UK that essentially has the whole school running (or walking) together, teachers and leaders included, for 15 mins a day. In an aim to get everyone moving, everyday. Do you see what she did there? (Watch this space we are looking to set up a running programme soon - if you want to be involved email: movement@everday.org.nz)
The more Lizzie worked on her own teaching practice and the more she delved into coaching, the more she was inspired by all the cool stuff happening in Aotearoa in Education…. everyday. started to take on a different form. Still premised in the same idea of working on something habitually, making small steps in the right direction to improve. Rather than the other option that can sometimes trip us up from time to time; doing things the same way we have always done them.
Everyday people in education, and others on the periphery have contributed to pages of everyday. And the magic lies in the coaching style questions at the end of every piece that encourage the reader to reflect on where they are in relation to the kaupapa being discussed.
Who is everyday.
Meet Lizzie Bayliss Editor
Over her career in education Lizzie has worked in inner city schools that are fully innovative and collaborative as well as working in multicultural schools alongside bilingual children helping them with the English they need to thrive in the New Zealand Curriculum. Lizzie has worked as a Numeracy Leader and an Across School Leader in her Kāhui Ako, developing Digital Technologies and communications across schools. Through all of this she has developed a real passion for fit for purpose education, for equity in education, and for all of us to stop and think holistically about what we think the real purpose of school is. However it was her work in coaching, combined by her drive to continuously innovate and improve that led to the creation of everyday.
Celebrating collaboration, curiosity & kindness in education in Aotearoa.
