Featured People

Neale Pitches,
CEO
ONZM, BA, MEd Admin (Hons), Dip Tchg

Neale taught in numerous New Zealand schools before being appointed deputy principal of Wellington High School and then principal of Wellington’s Onslow College... read more>>

Meryl-Lynn Pluck, Director
MPhil specialising in reading difficulties (Hons) BEd, Dip Tchg

Meryl-Lynn has a MPhil (Hons) with a specialisation in reading difficulties from the University of Auckland... read more>>

Paul Babbage, Publisher
BA (Hons), Dip Publishing, Cert Frontline Management

After graduating from Victoria University in 1999, Paul completed a Diploma in Publishing at Whitireia... read more>>

Don Long, Publisher
MA (Hons), BA, Dip Tchg, Advanced Dip Tchg

One of New Zealand's most experienced educational publishers, Don joined Lift Education in 2005... read more>>

Angela Yates, Educator
MMgt, BEd, Dip Tchg

Angela has skills and experience in research, writing, project management, and classroom teaching... read more>>

Education Specialists

Lift Education is built on a strong foundation of research, knowledge and experience in education, with a clear focus on curriculum innovation.

We work with organisations to develop educational resources across a range of media and to provide educational research evaluation and publishing services.

Our Latest News

Living the Olympic Values shortlisted for award

Living the Olympic Values, a resource developed by Lift Education / South Pacific Press for the New Zealand Olympic Committee, has been shortlisted for the CLL Educational Publishing Awards 2011. The free interactive resource is shortlisted in the category of Best Digital Publishing Solution.

LOV 3 Living the Olympic values

About Living the Olympic Values

Through Living the Olympic Values students discover, explore and analyse values, in the context of the values that are central to Olympism. These are:

Joy of Effort
Pursuit of Excellence
Fair Play
Respect for Others
Balance of Body, Mind and Character

The resource is tailored to New Zealand Curriculum levels 2–4, but can be adapted to suit other levels. The engaging stories of athletes and the Olympic Games appeal to students of all ages. Living the Olympic Values is available at http://www.olympic.org.nz/education/living-olympic-values.

About the CLL Educational Publishing Awards

The CLL (Copyright Licensing Ltd) Educational Publishing Awards have been established to recognise and reward authors and publishers for excellence in the educational publishing market in New Zealand. They acknowledge excellence in presentation, content and appropriateness for New Zealand schools and tertiary institutions. The inaugural Awards were held in 2010.

The Awards will be announced at a function held on 17 November 2011 at the National Library, Auckland. For more information, see http://bpanz.org.nz/?option=com_content&view=article&id=122&Itemid=35

Literacy to You

South Pacific Press (Lift Education) and CORE Education are offering a new professional learning programme focusing on increasing teacher knowledge of how to effectively teach reading comprehension strategies to students in the middle years (ages 8-13).

Literacy to You offers each participant:

10 modules on in-depth literacy learning
Individual support and feedback from expert facilitators
Access to a wide range of digital texts for classroom use
Strategies to increase student engagement
Instruction to meet the needs of diverse classroom settings
Increased knowledge on interaction and reflection during literacy
Practical classroom approaches grounded in the latest research

To find out more, visit the website: www.literacytoyou.com