Staff Profiles

With Ali’s arrival at CORE the British contingent at the organisation has been strengthened, yet again! Born and bred in Hampshire, Southern England, Ali met and married her kiwi husband, Howard and moved to Christchurch with him twelve years ago. They have an eight-year-old son, Thomas who is a pupil at Windsor School in Christchurch, and who is already planning what he will study at university (if he is not an All Black by then).

Following her tertiary study (a BA History/English) Ali worked in secondary school teaching and school management in the UK. In New Zealand, Ali took up the role of Associate Registrar at CPIT and worked there for nine years, during which time she completed a post-graduate diploma in management. Ali brings a wealth of managerial and education experience to her role as general manager/CEO at CORE. For the past 4 years she has also been President of the NZ Branch of the Association of Tertiary Education Managers (ATEM), which continues her close links with tertiary education in Australasia. She also Chairman of the Board of Trustees at her son's school. Ali is also an Associate Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

Angela joined the CORE team in August 2007 as National Support Services Online Facilitator. Prior to this she was a primary e-teacher for more than 10 years, both in face-to-face and distance schools in Wellington.

In 2005 she completed a MEd from the University of Otago, majoring in e-learning, higher order thinking, and gifted and talented education. She has been actively involved in providing professional leadership for primary, secondary, early childhood, and adult educators through conferences, workshop presentations, and ongoing staff development programmes.

Born and bred in Wellington, Angela loves both the vibrant café culture and the proximity to the sea of her home city.

Coming to CORE in January 2006 with a wealth of experience in the early childhood education sector, Ann will be leading the ECE ICTPL contract for CORE. Ann was most recently connected with the professional development provider, Educational Leadership Project (LTD) where she was team leader for the ECE Exemplar PD Contract. She was also a member of the team involved in the development of “Kei Tua o te Pae, Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars”.

In the last five years Ann has seen the power of new technologies to make a positive difference in the lives of children, their families, and teachers in the work she has done with ECE Centres. While she does not consider herself to be an ICT expert she is curious and enthusiastic about the new possibilities ICT offers for teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Christina’s expertise with online forums or 'communities of practice' is being utilised to the full in her current role coordinating the Ministry of Education's New Zealand Curriculum Online. During the early phases of the curriculum project her role was to encourage participation in discussions about the redevelopment and to improve access to the information emerging from the curriculum project.

In the lead up to the launch of the New Zealand Curriculum last November, Christina reconceptualised and managed the redesign of the New Zealand Curriculum website on TKI - http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/.

Being one of those people for whom school days truly were the happiest (she cried when she had to leave), Daphne was able to effectively stay at school by taking up the challenge of teaching. Before starting at CORE she taught in bilingual and immersion Māori units, lectured in Hamilton, and also worked as an RTLB (Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour) Māori teacher in Rotorua.

At CORE, Daphne is the Online Facilitator for the QTR&D (Quality Teaching, Research and Development) project Maori medium. The purpose of the QTR&D project is to build on existing knowledge to understand more about quality teaching. Daphne works to supports teachers in Maori immersion settings who are currently working in the QTR&D project. Daphne will also help develop CORE’s work with and within the kura kaupapa Māori educational medium.

Deanne recently joined the CORE team as one of the TMoA Regional Co-ordinators. She also owns her own company in partnership with a good friend and colleague, Kotaretu is their trading name.  Kotaretu is contracted to the Ministry of Education and other education associated groups, they deliver curriculum services including Te Whakapiki i te Reo Māori programmes to Māori medium teachers across the country. Deanne has had a long association with Te Hiringa i te Mahara and the Ministry of Education. She is the writer of a number of resource materials published for Maori medium schools and teachers.

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Derek has been involved with CORE since it’s inception in 2003. Derek, Nick Billowes, and Vince Ham set up Ultralab South (now CORE) – which was to embody their vision of an e-learning research and development centre.

Following the various educational roles of teacher, principal, and lecturer in educational technology Derek took up his role as director of e-learning in April 2003. The role allows him to be involved in a wide range of e-learning activities from exploring innovative use of the latest technologies and researching e-learning practices, to helping establish policy and strategies to guide the implemenation of e-learning, both nationally and overseas.

Derek’s role at CORE perfectly combines his passion for teaching and learning along with his long held fascination with the use of technologies in education. After convincing his wife he needed a computer – as that was where the future of education would lie - Derek bought his first one shortly after getting married. This was back in the days when you had to use tapes to load programmes and when mobile phones were the size and weight of a brick.

Married to Jane, Derek keeps himself busy on the home front with five children ranging in age from 7 to 23. When not busy with family, blogging, and CORE, Derek enjoys getting outdoors – especially tramping. He boasts that he has tramped in all of the national parks and covered most of the major tracks and walkways in New Zealand.

Donette recently joined the CORE team as one of the TMoA Regional Co-ordinators. Prior to working at CORE she was a kaiako at TKKM o Nga Taonga Tuturu ki Tokomaru Bay.

Donnette lives in Tokomaru Bay with her 3 daughters. She describes her daughters as "the greatest pride of her life". Donette and her daughters enjoy Kapahaka and spending time at their marae, and Donette particularly enjoys working in the kitchen at the marae and weaving when she gets a few spare moments!

As a former teacher of new entrant children Elaine is in the perfect position to appreciate the opportunities for ICTs in early childhood education. Elaine spent nine years teaching at Westmere School in Auckland before winning a Ministry of Education eFellowship award for 2006. Her research during this “sabbatical “ year investigated what children know about ICTs and whether new entrant teachers use that knowledge in their classroom programmes.

Elaine has enormous enthusiasm for finding ways to increase children’s engagement in learning, and giving them the opportunity to “show off” their expertise. She says, “ I am convinced that we need to find ways for learning to be fun and challenging”.

Beth has recently joined the CORE team as one of the TMoA Regional Co-ordinators. Prior to this Beth says she was a "lady of leisure", after she spent one and a half years at a local KKM in the Hawkes Bay.

Beth was born and bred in the beautiful sunny Hawkes Bay, and spent her childhood eating good food with her Mum and Dad and her brother and sister. She now lives there with her beautiful daughter and occasionally indulges in great wine and cheese! Beth loves to read, she says that literature seems to allow all emotions to come out, and lazes in the sun with a good book

Gina's main focus in 2008 is Education for Enterprise (E4E), an initiative which seeks to foster enterprising qualities in students.

She is contracted by:

• Outside the Square, the youth enterprise initiative of the Canterbury Development Corporation, on the Enterprise Champions Network project.
• Development West Coast's E4E project

For both projects, she works with teachers in secondary schools to assist them to develop their teaching practice to allow students more opportunities to demonstrate enterprising qualities, such as resilience, problem solving, creativity and a 'can-do' attitude.

Glen recently joined the CORE technical team after working at the Christchurch College of Education and the University of Canterbury for the past 10 years. He enjoys finding ways to incorporate technology into teaching and learning and says that is what makes Core the perfect place for him to work.

Glen lives on a 10 acre block in North Canterbury with his wife Nicola, his four
children, three cats, twenty chickens, six geese, six pigs and three goats - and a
few visiting sheep. Glen and his extensive and rather busy family are working towards making their environment organic and hope to be fully certified later this year.

The stress and chaos that can come with event management is no obstacle for this organisational dynamo.  Gwenny’s eagle eye for detail combined with exceptional organisational skills, honed over many years on the educational event circuit, make her a perfect match for the job. Many wonder how conferences such as Navcon2k4, ULearn05, Learning@School, and He Waka Eke Noa 'happen'; they need look no further than Gwenny’s 11-acre property in Nelson where she brings the many components of each event together and does just that – with a little help from the other members of the event committee. 

After graduating "decades ago” in sociology and French at Victoria University, Gwenny spent many years as president and office manager for the Maruia Society. The society has since undergone a couple of name changes from the Native Forests Action Council to the present name of the Ecologic Foundation and has been responsible for the protection of millions of acres of publicly-owned native forests in New Zealand.

Bringing two boys into the world put a pause on all that and once they were in primary school, Gwenny launched her own business with Janet Matheson in Nelson called Conferences & Events Ltd.  With plenty of event management experience behind her Gwenny began working with Nick Billowes in 1999 and now works exclusively for CORE Education on ICT PD conferences.

Gwenny has lived on the same property on the outskirts of Nelson since arriving from Cornwall in 1962.  She has planted thousands of trees and is still planting.  When not organising conferences, Gwenny plays violin in the Nelson Symphony Orchestra and is currently learning to tango.

Helen has solid experience in the early childhood sector, having taught in kindergartens and childcare centres in New Zealand and the UK for the past ten years. She joined CORE Education in 2006 to work on the Ministry of Education’s Early Childhood Education Professional Learning programme.

Helen is passionate about supporting the learning of young children and sees ICT as an opportunity for children to present and reflect on themselves. She wants to see ICT’s used to enhance communication between centres and families. Helen’s natural enthusiasm and energy comes to the fore as she facilitates a number of early childhood centres in Dunedin, supporting them to incorporate ICT’s into their programmes and management.

Hemi is currently working on the Te Marautanga o Aotearoa Project in two capacities. He is currently the Online communities facilitator managing the online community for this project He is also the National coordinator for the 6 Regional Coordinators supporting schools around the country to unpack Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. Hemi has recently completed his Masters in Education and is happy to be free of assignments for the mean time.

In his past life he was a National facilitator for the ICT PD project and before that a classroom teacher in both English and Maori medium settings.a.

Jane has been an educator for over 15 years, working in primary schools in both Australia and New Zealand. Jane has also spent time as an ICT Facilitator for two clusters in Dunedin. In 2006 she was awarded the Inspired Teacher Scholarship for innovation in visual language teaching from Inspiration Software. In 2007 Jane was awarded an E-Learning Fellowship from the Ministry of Education where her association with CORE Education began. Jane is continuing her interest in education research by completing doctoral studies in the area of online professional learning.

Originally from Perth, Australia, Jane now lives in Dunedin with her husband and three children. Jane has admitted to being addicted to her computer, one of the last things she does before she goes to bed at night is read blogs! She is also a keen runner and is heavily involved in Habitat for Humanity in her area.

Jedd is interested in and experienced in teacher professional learning, digital literacy, and strategies for transformative change in teaching and learning.

He is currently working as the iNZed programme designer for a LMalaysian professional learning programme, and spent 4 months in 2007 living in Ipoh and working with schools in the State of Perak. Jedd is also responsible for several new media projects including a partnership with Weta Productions, and the development of video material as teacher professional learning resources.

Jenny joined CORE in August 2007 as the online editor for the NZ Curriculum Online project. Prior to this she was based in Malaysia working as part of the KPEC Project.

Jenny lives in Featherston with her husband Jedd (also an employee of CORE) and their dog Chilli. Jenny and Jedd have four adult daughters, and Jenny has two horses which she rides most days. She has been studying for a number of years now, most of her study has been related to educational theory, and she would like to do a PhD one day.

Jill has been using her extensive knowledge of professional development and ICTs to enrich the learning experience of teachers and students for many years.  She began working for CORE Education in January, 2004 as a national ICT PD facilitator.   With most of her clusters spread throughout the South Island, Jill is often found boarding planes, travelling the highways, living out of a suitcase, and going virtual at the end of the day with the online environment.

Prior to joining the national ICT PD team and CORE, Jill was facilitator for the Katikati Cluster in 2003 and the Te Rapa Cluster 1999-2001.  This followed Jill’s long career in classroom teaching and a year working for Info-Tech Education. Jill says she loves working alongside teachers, seeing the satisfaction they get when they succeed in using new technologies and processes to engage and enable students, and improve learning outcomes in their schools. 

Jim joined CORE earlier this year to work with the eXe Team. Prior to this he was a software developer at Tairawhiti Polytech, working with Remo Williams on the Tertiary Education Commission's eCDF-funded eXe project.

Jim is based in Gisborne, he and his wife moved there just over a year ago after living in Tokyo, Japan for 16 years. They both like to go hiking and Jim is a big fan of Python, both Monty and the computer language.

Pepi recently joined the CORE team as one of the TMoA Regional Co-ordinators. Prior to working at CORE she was a Lecturer in teacher education at University of Auckland, and and Education Officer for Te Reo o Te Taitokerau.

Pepi is based in Whangarei. She has one daughter and one mokopuna, and has a great deal of interaction with her whanau. She loves to cook and also fancies herself as a bit of a singer!

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Justin lives in Rotorua with his partner and their two children. He is not sure if he will be living there long term but he really enjoys the city. Before working as part of the Te Marautanga o Aotearoa team, he was working at the Waiariki Institute of Technology. Justin is passionate about the development of the Maori curriculum as a partner document to the New Zealand Curriculum.

Kathe started working at CORE as the Maori ICT PD national facilitator in June 2007. She spends her week days based in Wellington and spends half of her week working for CORE, and the other half as the deputy principal of a Kura Kaupapa Maori school in Lower Hutt.

On the weekends Kathe lives in Masterton with her two daughters and spends her time catching up on things and having some quiet time out after a busy week in Wellington. For a number of years she represented Hutt Valley in both softball and netball at age grade and senior levels. Kathe likes to keep her life in order, hate

Krissie has recently returned from maternity leave to work part time at CORE. In the past Krissie was often described as the “glue” that held CORE together – but these days her responsibilities are limited to organising CORE's regular breakfast seminars, writing and distributing the newsletter and working as part of the CORE web team. Krissie works part time from home while looking after her daughters, Isabelle and Brooke.

Linda has contributed to the early childhood sector in various roles including, most recently, head teacher at a kindergarten in Otara, Manukau. Her contribution reflects her commitment to and love of education. As she puts it, she gets “ a buzz from empowering others to learn and achieve”.

Along with her passion for education, Linda has a particular interest in the pedagogical use of ICT in the early childhood sector. Her role as the Auckland facilitator for the ECE PL programme means she will be helping to extend the learning community in the sector and be part of a community of practice that is dynamic and ever changing.

As project director of the national support services team, Marg leads CORE’s contract for the New Zealand Ministry of Education's ICT Professional Development Clusters programme (ICT PD). With experience in successful school leadership and a variety of ICT initiatives Marg brings a wealth of expertise to the ICT PD clusters.

Marg has been interested in ICT and how it impacts on student learning for many years. As an English teacher in the 1980’s she researched the effects of word processing on student writing. In 1991 she helped deliver the first Ministry of Education contract in ICT professional development, moving computers across the curriculum in both primary and secondary schools in Nelson and Marlborough. 

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Mel’s original connection with CORE Education was as one of the first e-fellows – teachers who were selected to be part of the e-Fellowship Programme, co-managed by CORE and the Ministry of Education.  She liked it so much here; she ended up staying.

At the beginning of 2005 Mel took on a research role at CORE and in this she was able to continue in her field of interest, sustainability in teacher professional learning.  Over ten months she completed her “labour of love”, a pilot project exploring the usability of the PLOT (Professional Learning Online Tool) programme in New Zealand.

Michael is a relatively ancient pom, having been born in London during Hitler’s war.  Michael’s training is as a chemist/biochemist.  He was involved in academic and industrial research – the latter in the pharmaceutical industry.

Michael dropped out and went through his hippy phase at the relatively late age of 37.  During this time, he ended up in a spiritual community in North Scotland, where he met Josephine, who married him and brought him out to New Zealand as a souvenir of her OE. 

Michael trained in the secondary programme at Christchurch College of Education and taught in schools from Invercargill to Ruawai in Northland.  He returned to Christchurch as a lecturer at the college, where he became involved in evaluating the first round of Digital Opportunities projects.  He joined CORE early in 2004, and is involved with the e-Learning Fellows, the DigiOps evaluation, and a number of projects with Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology.

Naketa began work with CORE and the Early Childhood Education Professional Learning ICT programme in October 2006. She has been working in the early childhood sector for the past twelve years and has experience in the education, care service and kindergarten settings. Starting out as a cleaner in an early childhood service, Naketa worked and studied her way to Supervisor level at Play and Learn (King St). She recently graduated from Massey University with a Masters of Education (Early Years) Degree and is looking forward to a short break from academic study.

Naketa loves using new technologies with young children and she is particularly interested in using them to strengthen relationships with parents and whanau. Naketa’s professional interests are often transferred to her personal life, as she loves to make movies of special family events and distribute them to extended whanau in the Cook Islands and the Far North. She shares her interest with her two young children, her son creating KidsPix slide shows and her one year-old daughter revelling in seeing digital images of herself.

Tash joined the CORE team at the end of April, to fill the position of PA/Office Administrator. Before coming to CORE Tash was working for Antarctic NZ, and before that she worked at CPIT, where she was PA to Ali Hughes (CORE’s General Manager) and the Administrator for Ali’s Student Services Team. Tash is suited to her job because she likes to get involved in all aspects of the organisation, and enjoys working with people. She describes it as “mucking in”, not a bad description of a day at CORE Education!

Tash was born and raised in Southbrook, Rangiora, but after a stint overseas she now lives in Christchurch. Tash likes to spend time outdoors, tramping and mountain biking are firm favourites, but the big goal in her life at the moment is too learn how to fly.

Combining his years of teaching and management experience along with a commitment to new technologies and passion for professional development, Nick was in an ideal position to help establish the organisation that was to become CORE Education, Ultralab South in April, 2003.

Having met Professor Stephen Heppell, a leading thinker in the technology and education field and director of Ultralab in the UK, Nick was inspired to establish a similar organisation in the southern hemisphere.  His role within Ultralab South and CORE Education has evolved since then and he remains passionate about the role of CORE in making the learning and teaching experience more real and satisfying for all involved.

O'Sonia recently joined the CORE team as one of the TMoA Regional Co-ordinators. She currently spends half her week at CORE and half her week working with the School Support Service, Waikato, office in Whakatane.

O'Sonia lives in the city of Kawerau, the capital of Whakatane, the gate way to the coast! She has two daughters, one is a Teacher and the other is a Community Support Coordinator with CCS.

O'Sonia enjoys reading and relaxing after long working days, she says she doesn't get enough time for that! She has many interests,  from her nucleus whanau to her extended

Remo joined CORE at the end of 2007 with the eXe project and development team. Over the year prior to joining us Remo worked with and helped develop eXe -  the eLearning XHTML editor, a content authoring tool. As Remo is a software engineer with a longstanding interest in education, developing eXe has been an exciting prospect for him as it is freely available open source software, bringing in a world-wide user base of teachers and tutors interested in creating high-quality educational content.

Prior to his work on eXe, he has designed and developed software for:

Rochelle started working at CORE as receptionist/office assistant at the end of 2007 following a stint in retail. Prior to that she spent a year travelling in America. Her time there included three months working on the Camp America programme with children who had learning disabilities.

Now back in New Zealand a great deal of Rochelle’s time is taken up with sporting pursuits – she plays touch rugby for Canterbury, so a rewarding schedule of training and games keeps her busy.

After all that physical exertion it isn’t any wonder that Rochelle’s other life pleasures include sleeping (a pastime she detests being disturbed during) and soaking up the sun’s glorious rays.

Renowned for her flair and work ethic regarding all things culinary, staff at the CORE Christchurch office were thrilled to hear about the return of Ronnie to the CORE payroll.  Her muffins alone have elevated her to a god-like status, never mind the huge tupperware containers full to the brim with mouth-watering chocolate slice. Apart from providing an important motivation for staff to come to work, Ronnie has taken on the role of national facilitator for INSTEP, an exciting Ministry of Education research and development project designed to promote and support the professional learning of in-service teacher educators.

Sandra is able to perfectly combine her years of teaching experience, her passion for new technologies in education, her thorough, methodical and organised approach to work and her enjoyment of engaging with a variety of people in her role at CORE.  Being a senior researcher, she is charged with the task of managing the participant surveys for the ICT PD contract and acting as academic mentor for the eFellowship programme. 

Missing the action at the coalface, Sandra returned to the classroom and now works half of her time at Paparoa Street Primary School where she enjoys her year 5 class and contributes to the ICT Committee.

Sarah says the best thing about her job is being able to work part-time from home, which allows her to manage her CORE work around her other job as mother to two young children.

After graduating from Christchurch College of Education, Sarah headed overseas, working in Japan and London.  Upon returning to New Zealand Sarah combined her enthusiasm for ICT and her teaching experience at Multi Serve Education Trust where she contributed to TKI (as ICT online editor), and the Pasifika Digital Legends project.

Before she joined CORE, Selver was busy with conducting her PhD research in Political Science at the University of Canterbury. While doing her doctoral study, she also worked as a tutor and undertook some short-term data entry and analysis assignments. Prior to her arrival in New Zealand in mid-2004, she worked as a Research Assistant and Education Specialist in two different Turkish universities where she was involved in carrying out research into the EU Education (Socrates, Leonardo and Youth) and Technology Programmes (Sixth Framework Programme), disseminating information on available national and international research project-funding oppportunities, providing technical assistance in writing research proposals, organising workshops and conferences and concluding student exchange agreements with European and Middle Eastern higher education institutions.

Prior to joining the CORE team in October 2006, Sharon provided ICT professional development and support for the Waikato Kindergarten Association and staff at Hillcrest Kindergarten in Hamilton where she was Head Teacher for 2 years.

Sharon’s professional drive and experience has brought her to her current role as ECE PL ICT Facilitator for the central North Island. This role provides Sharon with the opportunity to challenge and support teachers to extend their skills and knowledge in ICT whilst also stretching her as she continues her own learning journey.

In Hamilton, Sharon shares her home with her husband of twenty years, Richard, her two teenage children and two cats.

Given her mammoth task of coordinating the ICT PD Clusters programme facilitation team it’s lucky Sherry, by her own admission, is a  “creative type, tempered with a bit of realism, and a splash of order”. Mind you from all accounts, Sherry enjoys her job so much she hardly considers it working. As she says, “the role I have is so varied, I get to work with lots of wonderful people, organise some wonderful events, see people grow in their roles, and create exciting opportunities ... who wouldn’t love it?”

Sherry has teaching in her blood, as they say. Growing up in a teaching family she lived in various locales around New Zealand and also experienced life in Western Samoa. With the standard occupational choice for women at the time being teaching or nursing, Sherry opted for the former partly influenced by her distaste for wearing uniforms of any description.  

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Suzie has been teaching in the primary sector for the last 14 years including two and a half years as a specialist ESOL teacher in London. She has been an ICT lead teacher in two schools which led to her becoming a facilitator for the Petone Foreshore ICT Cluster in 2006. She joined CORE in June 2008.

Suzie has a passion for using new technologies to enhance and transform teaching and learning and maintains a number of online spaces that support educators to do this in their own classroms. At CORE, Suzie has two roles: she is the national ICT PD facilitator for 13 clusters in the Auckland region also responsible for technical support in the ICT PD and ECE PD PL Online areas.

Prior to joining CORE, Tara was a lecturer for The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and tutor for Victoria University. She has also continued her involvement with Playcentre by facilitating the occasional workshop. She is in the final stages of completing a Masters of Education.

Tara is passionate about quality education for children she is excited about being part of the ECE ICT PL programme and the benefits that this brings to family, whanau, teachers and most importantly the children.

Home for Tara is currently Wellington but she still calls Rakaia in Canterbury home. She lives in Wellington with her three children - two sons aged 11 and 9 and a daughter aged 6.

Tessa took up her role with CORE Education in January 2006. Her primary teaching experience has spanned inner-city London and New Zealand in both classroom and specialist art teaching. Taking her commitment to art teaching further, Tessa worked on the Ministry of Education Arts Contract as a visual art facilitator. Soon after that, she worked as ICT adviser for the University of Waikato.

Tessa believes that professional learning in a knowledge-based age is fundamental in ensuring that students reach their maximum potential to become life-long learners in the 21st century. This means assisting facilitators/leaders to develop skills and strategies for implementing effective practice while at the same time, challenging others to reflect and improve on their current teaching practice. The changes in Web 2.0 have made a profound impact on our learning environments and finally the artist, designer, publisher is on a global stage.

Vicki recently joined the CORE team as the Marautanga national support officer. Prior to this she was the Office Manager at the Mahi Tahi Trust.

Vicki lives in Rotorua, and is the second youngest of nine children! She likes volleyball, reading sci-fi books and is heavily involved in Kapahaka.

Vince was one of the foundation staff at CORE education when it opened as Ultralab South on 1 April, 2003. Vince came to CORE steeped in teaching and education, having clocked up 16 years in teacher education and research at Christchurch College of Education and (briefly) the University of Canterbury. Prior to this he was the History HOD at Nelson College for Girls.

Most often referred to by different personality types to his at CORE as its ‘absent-minded professor’, Vince fills his weeks developing, conducting, and writing up research projects for CORE.

“Too old to rock and roll and much too young to die” (as the song goes), Vince spends his weekends variously working in the garden, playing soccer, going to movies, ‘doing up’ houses, or drinking specialist citrus teas at Christchurch’s finest cafes, depending on the season and the weather du jour.

Warren joined CORE in June 2007 as the Secondary ICTPD National Facilitator. Before he joined the CORE team Warren was teaching at Queen Charlotte College in Blenheim. He was also the Network Manager.

Warren lives with his wife Linda and his almost 1 year old son Matthew. In his spare time he likes to go cycling, walking and tramping, and like many other CORE employees spends a lot of time on his computer!