Council Members
Present Council Members
The ministerial appointees to the NZ Teachers Council are:
Chair, Kathy Smith.
Lyn Brash, (previously Blunt) Education Consultant with Brash Enterprises working in the Polytechnic sector. Previous Deputy CEO of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. Worked with teachers across the country in the Teaching Learning Communication Programme. A trained secondary school teacher with 20 years experience in secondary school governance.
Margaret Franken, a trained primary teacher, has had a long involvement in teacher development in the area of second language learning and literacy acquisition of school age students. She holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics. She is currently teaching in the University of Waikato's Postgraduate Diploma in Language and Literacy Education and supervising postgraduate research in the area of language and literacy.
Toni Waho is from Ngāti Rangi, Te Ati Hau-nui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Kahungunu and Waikato. He trained in Early Childhood as a kōhanga reo kaiako and became a pouako and then the Tumuaki at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Mana Tamariki. He is a member of Te Rūnanga Whāiti o Te Rūnanganui o nā Kura Kaupapa Māori and a Trustee of the National Te Kōhanga Reo Trust.
Elected Sector Representatives are:
Early Childhood
Margaret Smith is the manager of two Early Childhood centres based at the Dunedin Hospital. She has worked in a variety of early childhood services over many years. She previously worked at Dunedin College of Education as part of the professional development team for early childhood services. She worked for NZSTA providing governance and management training for School Board of Trustees. Margaret holds both an early childhood and primary teaching qualification.
Primary
Jill Page is a Resource Teacher: Learning & Behaviour in the Birkenhead cluster. She is a past Board of Trustee member and Chairperson at Wairau Intermediate School. Jill is a former RTLB Association Executive Member for Auckland North and past president of Milford Forrest Hill AFC. She is a trained primary school teacher with 22 years experience across all age groups.
Secondary
Steve Wood JP is the HOD Science at Saint Johns College Hillcrest, Hamilton and a Senior Teacher of Chemistry at Foundation Studies, University of Waikato. A teacher with 16 years experience he previously taught at Melville High School, Hamilton and Waitara High School, Taranaki as well as doing a short stint teaching a Massey University outreach Sociology paper at the Western Institute of Technology.
Principals
Nola Hambleton, Principal Manurewa Primary School, Past President International Confederation of Principals; past President of the Principals Federation.
The nominees from the unions and STA are:
NZEI
Diane Leggett JP, Principal of Karori Normal School, Wellington. A teacher with 35 years experience, she has previously been Principal of Banks Avenue School in Christchurch and of Waitangirua Intermediate School in Porirua. She also spent 8 years at the Wellington College of Education as a Senior Mathematics Adviser and as Manager of Contracts. Diane is a mentor for the First Time Principals programme and is a tutor for the Diploma of Educational Leadership, Christchurch College of Education. She is also a National Executive member of NZEI - Te Riu Roa.
PPTA
Irene Symes, Deputy Principal of Otahuhu College, 20 years teaching experience in rural and urban New Zealand and in the UK. Former PPTA representative on the Auckland College of Education Council.
STA
Barbara Arnott, Education Consultant, East Coast Region; Member of School Trustees Association; Council Member, Eastern Institute of Technology; Chair of Napier Community High School and Mayor of Napier.
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