As strong as
the teacher
next to me
Teaching can be a lonely business.
Is there any other profession where you spend so much of your day with so many people but do your job alone? It might sound weird but our primary focus here isn't looking for friends – we're actually here looking for people.
Different classrooms, shared journeys
Every teacher, together, teaching the same kit, all at once.
15,000 NZ classroom teachers
Every teacher, together, teaching the same kit, all at once.
The Community:
Private, dedicated kit spaces with the School Kit Squad where teachers connect, share, and support each other through the same teaching experience.
The Box:
Beautiful, physical, tangible, tactile resources designed for up to 32 students delivered directly to schools... for free.
The Support:
Get help from our Teacher Champions via direct message, Q&A sessions, one to one meets or in-person school visits (we visit 800 school annually).
Professional support - Real teachers
How to School Kit
01 — You Register
Choose a kit that you like the sound of and read more about it.
Click on the registration link and fill out the details.
Confirm the school you are teaching at so that we know where to send your physical kit.
02 — We Confirm
We review your details and check they match our membership database.
If we need to ask any questions, we will be in touch.
Once your registration is confirmed you’ll receive a confirmation email from us.
03 — Join the online kit space.
Joining the kit space confirms your registration.
Download the kit teacher guide and review key teaching ideas and themes.
Ask questions and seek clarity on any issue or problem you might be having.
04 — Your physical kit is delivered
Kits arrive in the first week of the term you requested to teach the kit.
Unpack your kit and refer back to the teacher guide to understand how it all fits.
Resolve any practical issues you might be having with individual kit components
05 — You teach
Share learnings with other teachers teaching the same kit at the same time as you.
Access prompt support from a member of our School Kit Team to ensure your teaching experience is awesome.
Be excited about the learning - push yourself, share your successes with the network
06 — Tell us what you thought.
We email you a link to our online review system. We'll ask you up to 10 questions about what it was like teaching the kit.
Answer our kit specific questions using real life examples from your classroom.
Add photos and/or videos to your feedback showing us the kit in use.
Find a kit
Click a kit below to learn more and register for your own.
Classroom teachers really like us
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“This resource was beyond words. We all learned so much together. I'm so impressed by this kit and have raved about it to anyone who would listen."
Katie - Year 8 Teacher
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“The resources in this kit are amazing! So many different ways that you can teach your students. How you use it depends on their needs and the direction they show you."
Colleen - Year 2 Teacher
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“This kit was a great opportunity to teach chemical reactions. Some cakes worked well, others failed. So we had great discussions about trial and error, just like scientists do.”
Soazik - Year 5 Teacher
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"The kit provided us with resources for a great local beach / dunes clean up. The data collection task showed students the amount of rubbish from local stores."
Erin - Year 4 Teacher
Not another weird online community - promise
Professional connection without personal pressure.
Reciprocal support - giving and receiving help naturally. It's not about us, we're here to help you. We expect you to help each other too.
Celebration of teaching passion - we're here because we're passionate about the business of teaching.
The School Kit Manifesto
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Do good work and share it with people. Find good people who will share the way they work with you. Make the thing that was missing for you in your teacher journey. Find a teacher you admire and talk to them about how they teach. Problem solve with others. Share your enthusiasm. Celebrate the efforts of your fellow teacher.
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Be passionately curious. Read widely. Watch films. Examine artworks. Be informed. Get your news from more than one source. Think. Learn to ask questions. Break your algorithm. Start conversations with strangers. Know more than you need to about the thing you’re teaching. Know yourself. Be self aware enough to realise the areas where you personally need to learn more. Don’t forget to be a teacher that is also teachable.
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Story works every time. Search for the narrative, a way of telling that cements the learning in the hearts and minds of your students. Make everything connect. Become the type of storyteller that holds their students spellbound. Story works for any age of student. Story never fails.
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Every kid in New Zealand deserves to have at least one teacher that changes their life, so go be that teacher. Teach to connect. The act of teaching is the magic. It is teachers (not the tech) that design the most powerful learning experiences. Teach in your way. Find your magic.
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Find inspiration everywhere. Start by copying what you love then... break it, flip it, stretch it, crack it and turn it inside out till it works better for you. Know our curriculum well enough to connect what you’ve designed with what needs to be taught. Add the tech last. The tech is just the tool, it’s the idea that matters.
Each term Squad members follow the journey of eight classroom teachers as they road test one of four books in their classroom. You’ll see updates, progress, successes and failures as they unpack the book with their students. When they're done, we wrap it up into a single unit and share it with everyone in the Squad. Squad members receive a special squad only discount when purchasing Penguin books.
The Huddle
For 10 years and over 36 beautifully designed issues, the Toitoi team has worked tirelessly to honour the writing and artwork of our students. They have an archive of thousands of fabulous pieces of artwork and heart-stopping writing. Squad members receive free access to samples from the Toitoi Archive. New teaching activities are released weekly accompanied by PDFs of previously published student work.
Teach with Toitoi
Whether you're a BT or PRT needing guidance from teachers at the top of their game, or part of a team wanting to listen together, work through reflection tasks, and share responses at your next meeting - this space is designed for real teachers doing real work.
Ready to start talking about teaching again? So are we.
The everyday. Collective
We visit 800 schools a year
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"We're not here to appeal to the lowest common denominator. We're here to raise it"
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FAQs
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Our kits are always free for you to take because we partner with a range of amazing organisations (public and private) and channel their education budgets in effective and interesting ways. The final product is our kits for your classrooms.
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Our kits are always free. Complete your registration, join our teacher network and you’re on your way.
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Our kits are free to take but not free to make. We supply our generous kit sponsors with feedback from you as ‘payment’. Our sponsors want to know what you and your students thought of the learning experience, and so do we.
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All our kits are designed for a class of 32. We know if you are teaching in a MLE space this is not enough so we suggest each Teacher within your space register for the same kit.
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This is entirely up to you and the type of kit you have decided to teach. Each kit has a comprehensive digital teacher guide that gives you a thorough overview of the ideas and learning in each kit. You can explore this as deeply as you choose with your students, this may depend on things such as their ability and the topic. A good guide is to discuss with other teachers that have or are teaching the same kit within our network. Sharing knowledge is key.
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Our kits are free to take but not free to make. We supply our generous kit sponsors with feedback from you as ‘payment’. Our sponsors want to know what you and your students thought of the learning experience, and so do we.
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We will send out an email request for feedback at the end of the Term you received your kit. If you haven’t quite finished with your kit, you can let us know then.
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Our HQ team works really hard to ensure registrations are processed promptly. Please keep an eye on your inbox as you can expect a confirmation email within a week.
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Some of our kits are specifically designed for Yr9 and 10 classes. This means you may need more than one kit if you teach more than one class. If this is the case, let us know.
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You can find a complete schedule of our upcoming kits in the Calendar section of our website. We keep this updated as often as possible and aim to have it available in advance to help with your planning. You can find the calendar here.
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Drop us a line at hello@schoolkit.co.nz and let us know if you no longer need a resource or if you would like to change your teaching to another term. Alternatively, if you’re already in the School Kit Squad, message one of your hosts directly and we will be more than happy to get that sorted for you.
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Once you have decided what term you would like to teach our kit in then you can register online here. We will confirm your registration and your kit will arrive the first week of your chosen term ready for you to teach.
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We have transitioned our resources to our new teacher network app. We refer to this as our Squad HQ and it is a fun space where our resources are available as well as kit teaching support and like minded teachers sharing ideas with one another. You can become a Squad Member here.
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This could be for a number of reasons that are normally a simple fix. We can help you troubleshoot to solve this and it is best to email us at hello@schoolkit.co.nz