Haere mai!
Anei a Wakatipu
We are honoured to welcome you to the 2019 NZATE conference in Queenstown. This is the first time a conference has been held in Central Otago, and we look forward to sharing the dynamism, scenery and open spaces of the Wakatipu Basin with educators from around the country.
Inspired by our unique surroundings, and alluding to the ever-shifting nature of education, this year’s theme is Landscapes. Conference is always an opportunity to celebrate the peaks of our professional endeavours as well as step back from the day-to-day and gain perspective.
The array of speakers, workshops, breakouts and activities will allow us to come together, explore and construct what the future landscapes of English education might look like.
At the same time, we’ll enjoy the finest aspects of the Wakatipu: sun, snow and pinot!
Kaikōrero Matua / Speakers
Dylan Horrocks is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator based in Wellington.
He is the author of the graphic novels Hicksville and Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, and a collection of short comics, Incomplete Works.
He also drew the comic book series Pickle and Atlas, and has written comics for DC and Vertigo, including Hunter: the Age of Magic and Batgirl.
He has won an Eisner Award, a Sir Julius Vogel Award, and a NZ Arts Foundation Laureate Award, and is currently the Writer in Residence at Victoria University.
Cathy Wylie is a Chief Researcher at the NZ Council for Educational Research and was a member of the recent Independent Taskforce to Review Tomorrow’s Schools.
She is well-known for her research on educational and social policy and its impacts for teaching and learning. She is particularly interested in how we can better support teaching and learning to tackle longstanding inequities in our system, and the newer challenges we face.
She is also the daughter of two librarians, and an inveterate reader.
Welcome to Wakatipu High School
Our venue for Landscapes is Wakatipu High School. It's the only high school in Queenstown and in January 2018, it moved to a new 10,000sqm state of the art school at Remarkables Park.
The school is designed and built in accordance with the principles of an Innovative Learning Environment (ILE), the concept that encompasses the use of Flexible Learning Spaces as part of learning.
