Introducing Kia Maia | Future Ready Teaching plan
10 December 2025
Introducing Kia Maia | A pathway to deepen knowledge and build confidence in your teaching practice
Kia Maia enables principals, tumuaki and professional leaders to employ and support teachers through an on-the-job refresh. This enables kaiako to renew their practising certificate while actively engaging with learners and embedding curriculum, cultural context, and pedagogy into practice.
Kia Maia builds on what many of you have already been doing through the temporary policy using the Return-to-Practice Plan. This approach has worked well, and we’ve decided to make it permanent and to expand it to include some teachers who would otherwise need to complete an external Teacher Education Refresh programme – a process that can keep them out of the workforce for three months or more. The Return-to-Practice Plan has been renamed to Kia Maia | Future Ready Teaching plan.
The details are being finalised, but the pathway will be available from 1 January 2026. Keep an eye on this webpage on our website.
