Coactive Education Consultancy

The New Education Budget has been released for 2026 - What can Educators expect, what’re the focuses? Where’s the money going?

Budget 2026 brings a renewed focus on education funding, with investment in curriculum implementation, teacher PLD, secondary achievement, vocational pathways, learning support, school operations, and property.

For teachers, school leaders, kaiako, and education providers, the key question is: what does this actually mean in practice?

We’ve broken down the main education funding announcements and what they may mean for schools and educators across Aotearoa.

Read the full blog and share your thoughts in the comments 👇

Some leadership wisdom from our incredible ECE facilitator, Preety, during her workshop *Strengthening Internal Evaluation*.

A total systems powerhouse and former ERO officer, Preety is our expert in all things compliance, assessment, documentation, and evaluation.

She hosts some of our most popular workshops — and if your centre needs to strengthen its systems, sharpen internal evaluation, or feel more confident around compliance, this is the kind of learning you need.

No-nonsense, practical, high-impact professional learning.

Let’s talk Social Emotional Learning with Robert Jensen!

This awesome little snippet is just one minute from the full-day workshop we’ve hosted on the topic — imagine how much great knowledge our learners take away from the full session!

Keen to register? There are two upcoming sessions for this event, fully funded for Northland and Waikato.

Check the comments for the link!

Where is Del off to today?? If your school has a story to tell - you know we’ll travel as far as we need to to make it happen!

Del’s off to Binalong - a rural town in NSW ready to tell their story, where should she head to next? Tag a school with an incredible story

Hands up if you’re guilty of quizzing children.

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It’s a habit that’s easy to fall into - but why?? In this clip from our Early Literacy Essentials workshop - Our expert facilitator, Rebecca Hellowell, talks about the best ways to talk to tamariki that actually grow their oral language skills.

Instead of saying “What colour is this block” we can model real conversations “You’ve got a yellow block!” “What do you think will happen if you put it ontop of the tower?” “That’s a gigantic tower!”

Follow along for more snippets from our workshops, and take a look at our website to see if any fully-funded sessions are available in your area.

Teachers, have you ever sorted the consent forms, funded the bus, arranged parent chaperones, and planned a full day at the museum; only for those carefully planned learning opportunities to be derailed by unfocused, distracted learners?

So how do we make sure our learners still access the rich stories these places hold, without the heavy resourcing and logistics?

Take a teacher-only trip.

Whether it’s your whole team or just you, make a day of exploring your local museums, gathering stories, and collecting locally relevant information you can take back to your students.

Then, integrate those stories throughout your lessons in ways that are focused, explicit, curriculum-aligned, and meaningful and most importantly no bus required ;)