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A growing collection of culturally grounded prompt books and toolkits.
Built by a New Zealand classroom teacher and inspired by Te Ao Māori values.
Meaningful learning starts with better questions.
The Basic Edition is designed for educators who want practical, culturally grounded tools they can use immediately to create meaningful learning experiences in the classroom.
Built from real classroom practice and inspired by Te Ao Māori values, this collection helps educators deepen learner engagement, strengthen learner voice, and create more meaningful learning experiences without adding to their workload.
Whether you're planning literacy, inquiry, oral language, or classroom discussions, the Basic Edition provides ready-to-use prompts that spark curiosity, reflection, and authentic learning conversations.
Perfect For
✓ Individual educators
✓ Beginning users of Kōrero & Create™
✓ Teachers wanting fresh planning inspiration
✓ Classrooms exploring identity, culture, voice, and belonging
What's Included
✓ Classroom-ready teaching prompts
✓ Reflection and discussion starters
✓ Literacy and inquiry learning support
✓ Flexible use across multiple curriculum areas
✓ Practical teaching tools inspired by Te Ao Māori values
Why Educators Choose Basic
The Basic Edition helps turn everyday lessons into meaningful learning experiences while reducing the time spent staring at a blank planning page.
Turn everyday lessons into meaningful learning experiences.
NZ$19 • Instant Digital Download
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Deepen learner voice. Strengthen cultural connection. Plan with greater purpose.
Kōrero & Create™ Pro Edition is a culturally grounded professional resource designed for kaiako, educators, and facilitators who want to deepen learner voice, strengthen cultural connection, and create more meaningful learning experiences while reducing planning time.
Built from classroom practice and inspired by Te Ao Māori values, the Pro Edition helps educators move beyond activities and toward learning that develops identity, belonging, reflection, and authentic learner voice.
Designed for educators ready to move beyond inspiration and into intentional classroom implementation.
Perfect For:
✔ Kaiako working across Years 2–8 and beyond
✔ Educators seeking culturally responsive teaching approaches
✔ Teachers wanting stronger learner engagement and deeper thinking
✔ Facilitators leading inquiry, reflection, and community learning
What's Included
✔ 20 culturally grounded teaching and inquiry prompts
✔ 10 student-ready reflection and learner voice prompts
✔ 5 themed mini-units ready for classroom use
✔ Vocabulary banks and sentence starters
✔ Differentiation support for diverse learners
✔ Cultural integration guidance grounded in Te Ao Māori
✔ Weekly Arc Planner
✔ Prompt Mapping Grid
✔ Cultural Integration Planner
✔ Learner Voice Log
Why Educators Choose Pro
The Pro Edition bridges the gap between inspiration and implementation.
Rather than starting with a blank planning page, educators receive practical tools that help transform ideas into meaningful learning experiences while maintaining professional judgement and flexibility.
Designed for educators ready to teach with greater depth, purpose, and cultural confidence.
NZ$32 • Instant Digital Download
The framework serious leaders return to — for when the room tightens and strategy isn't enough.
For principals, team leaders, facilitators, and experienced educators navigating complex conversations and meaningful change.
Leadership is not simply about having answers. It is about holding people, purpose, and possibility together when complexity enters the room.
Kōrero & Create™ — Leaders & Facilitators Edition is a professional leadership framework for those who hold space for others at the highest level. Not strategies. Not tips. Frameworks that honour the room, the people, and the purpose — grounded in cultural values that function as structural mechanics, not decoration.
Built on the Holding Space Framework, this edition gives you the cultural grounding, practical tools, and reflective discipline to lead meaningful conversations, run effective hui, and create the conditions where real learning and change can happen — even when the room is difficult.
This is the work AI cannot do. Reading silence. Metabolising tension. Knowing when to slow down and when to hold firm. Bringing people through complexity with integrity intact.
Who this is for
School principals and senior leaders navigating staff, community, and systemic complexity.
Team leaders and middle leaders facilitating difficult kōrero under pressure.
Facilitators and practitioners working in high-stakes, emotionally complex, or cross-cultural environments.
Experienced educators ready to lead beyond the classroom.
Anyone who has walked into a room that tightened — and needed to know what to do next.
This edition is not an entry point. It is a tool for people who already lead, and who want to lead with more depth, more presence, and more cultural grounding.
What's inside
The Manifesto
Why AI cannot hold space, and what that means for leaders operating at the edge of complexity right now.
The Architecture
Rangatiratanga, Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga, and Kaitiakitanga treated as structural mechanics for high-performance leadership, not ceremonial values.
The Holding Space Framework
Four sections covering Opening, Holding, Culture, and Closing. Each includes reflective questions, practical protocols, and copy-ready phrases for real moments in real rooms.
The Contexts
Adapting the framework for digital rooms, hybrid hui, and face-to-face facilitation. Includes the Analog Interruption technique for breaking the screen trance in high-stakes online meetings.
The Emergency Index
A quick-reference table matching room states (scattered, aggressive, toxic, rushed) to specific whakataukī anchors and in-the-moment mechanics you can use immediately.
Whakataukī Anchors Throughout
Used as practical leadership tools, not cultural decoration, with guidance on drawing from your own lineage where relevant.
How it fits the series
Core Edition (Free) → Your introduction to culturally grounded learning and leadership.
Basic Edition ($19) → Thirty prompts, three sections, cultural foundations.
Pro Edition ($32) → The complete teaching framework. Deeper practice, student-facing tools, planning templates.
Leaders & Facilitators Edition ($49) → For those leading others. The human-only framework for when the room tightens.
What you receive
Digital PDF — instant download after purchase.
A5, print-friendly, fully searchable.
Designed to be returned to, not read once and shelved.
When the room tightens, lead with purpose—not pressure.
Move slowly. Pause often. Let silence do some of the work.
Kōrero & Create™ – Basic Edition
Meaningful learning starts with better questions.
The Basic Edition is designed for educators who want practical, culturally grounded tools they can use immediately in the classroom.
Built from real classroom practice and inspired by Te Ao Māori values, this collection helps educators deepen learner engagement, strengthen learner voice, and create more meaningful learning experiences without adding to their workload.
Whether you're planning literacy, inquiry, oral language, or classroom discussions, the Basic Edition provides ready-to-use prompts that spark curiosity, reflection, and authentic learning conversations.
Perfect For
✓ Individual educators
✓ Beginning users of Kōrero & Create™
✓ Teachers wanting fresh planning inspiration
✓ Classrooms exploring identity, culture, voice, and belonging
What's Included
✓ Classroom-ready teaching prompts
✓ Reflection and discussion starters
✓ Literacy and inquiry learning support
✓ Flexible use across multiple curriculum areas
✓ Practical tools inspired by Te Ao Māori values
Why Educators Choose Basic
The Basic Edition helps turn everyday lessons into meaningful learning experiences while reducing the time spent staring at a blank planning page.
For educators who want practical tools, not more planning stress.
Kōrero & Create™ — Leaders & Facilitators Edition
For leaders, facilitators, educators, and community groups who design and hold learning spaces.
AI can write your agenda. It can summarise your minutes and predict your risks. But there is no algorithm for the tension that fills a room when a budget is cut. There is no prompt that can hold the silence when a culture breaks.
That work belongs to you.
Who this is for
Senior leaders and executives
Facilitators and organisational consultants
Anyone who holds complex, high-stakes conversations
What's inside
Four core sections — Opening, Holding the Middle, Culture in Practice, and Closing with Intention
Whakataukī for each section as functional leadership tools, not cultural decoration
The Opening Calibration ritual for in-person and digital meetings
The Reset Protocol — for when the space breaks
Post-digital fatigue tools and somatic practices
The Human-Only Framework grounded in Rangatiratanga, Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga, and Kaitiakitanga
What this is
An advanced leadership framework for facilitators, executives, and leaders who hold high-stakes spaces — boardrooms, hui, digital meetings, and everything in between.
This is not a book of icebreakers. It is a collection of anchors.
Kōrero & Create™ – Pro Edition
is an advanced, culturally grounded teaching framework for kaiako, educators, and facilitators who want to deepen practice, strengthen learner voice, and teach with intention.
Built on the foundations of the Basic Edition, the Pro Edition goes further — into identity, values, reflection, leadership, and contribution.
Who this is for
Kaiako and educators working with Y2–4 learners
Facilitators seeking culturally responsive teaching tools
Leaders who want depth over coverage
Anyone ready to honour culture in their practice — not just add it on
What's inside
20 structured teacher prompts covering narrative, identity, values, leadership, and more
Full learning outcomes for Y2, Y3, and Y4
Differentiation scaffolds, vocabulary banks, and sentence starters for every prompt
Cultural lens guidance grounded in Te Ao Māori
10 student-ready prompts for independent voice and reflection
5 mini-units connecting prompts into thematic sequences
Professional planning templates including Weekly Arc Planner, Prompt Mapping Grid, Cultural Integration Planner, and Learner Voice Log
Implementation guidance that keeps professional judgement at the centre
How to use it
Use one prompt. Stay with it. Let learners lead. There is no correct order and no requirement to use everything. This book is a companion, not a checklist.
What you receive
Digital PDF — instant download
67 pages of classroom-ready content
Reusable across terms, year levels, and contexts
Professional judgement still leads.
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“Everyday items connected to our kaupapa.”
Teaching is relational.
It always has been.
This tee reflects a simple but powerful truth: learning happens through connection, trust, and shared humanity — not just content or systems.
Designed for educators, facilitators, and leaders who centre relationships in their practice, this shirt is a quiet statement of belief, not a slogan.
Why This Message Matters
Teaching is more than delivery.
It’s presence.
It’s connection.
It’s knowing learners as people first.
This tee represents:
Relationships before outcomes
People before programmes
Culture before compliance
Who It’s For
Classroom teachers
Relievers and beginning educators
School leaders and facilitators
Anyone who believes learning is built on relationships
Apparel that reflects how teaching really works — through connection, culture, and care.
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