We are an award-winning educational publisher that passionately believes in authentic Pacific educational resources. Our mission is to help you create learning resources that will engage your students and accelerate their learning, and support your teachers to transform their teaching.
Our experience
We have created engaging, Pacific teaching and learning resources for the:
- Department of Education, Tokelau
- Ministry of Education, Cook Islands (in six dialects)
- Ministry of Education, New Zealand (in seven languages, including dual-language resources)
- Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, Solomon Islands
- Ministry of Education and Training, Tonga (including dual-language resources)
- UNESCO Office for the Pacific States
- Commonwealth Education Trust (including a digital learning project with the Ministry of Education, Fiji)
We have also been a consultant to the Department of Education, American Sāmoa, on book production in gagana Sāmoa.
Development partners
Many of our projects are funded by development partners, including the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). We have also worked with the World Bank and the British Council.
Registrations
Lift Education is currently on the Curriculum Support Services panel for the New Zealand Ministry of Education. We are registered with the Asia Development Bank, the Asia Pacific Electronic Government Procurement Network, AusTender, Danida, the United Nations Global Marketplace, and GETS as a supplier of educational publishing services.
We also provide educational publishing services to other government agencies and NGOs, supporting them to develop educational resources for schools, as well as for adult learners.
Awards
SunPix Pacific Peoples Awards
- Pacific Service Excellence
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards
- Best Resource in Primary School Level Publishing
- Best Digital Media Solution
- Best Educational Resource or Programme for Export
We provide full creation and publication services.
Project set-up and management
- provide estimates and quotes
- manage projects (including project design, budgets, and timelines)
- create style guides (including guidance to writers on your preferences for diacritical marks, spelling, and dialects).
Editing
- edit texts (including structural and style editing)
- ensure curricula alignment, liaising with curriculum and content specialists
- liaise with dictionary committees and language commissions, as appropriate
- create student books and big books (with embedded teacher support)
- arrange a series of resources by reading levels, year levels, interest levels, or curriculum objectives.
Designing and illustrating
- help you expand reading-level descriptions and develop a design style guide to include design specifications for elements such as font sizes, leading, formatting, sentence and line length, and similar
- rearrange text to suit early reading page-extents and layouts
- provide professional, culturally-appropriate illustrations with strong picture–text match
- support local illustrators at training workshops
- source and commission photographs
- create graphics, such as tables, graphs, and diagrams
- create mock-ups for you to check before production proceeds, including trial material to test in your schools
- apply open-source fonts that meet the needs of readers, including fonts for early readers that reflect guidelines for letter formation for students who are still learning to shape their letters. are still learning to shape their letters.
Digital publishing
- create digital versions, including apps
- record read-along audio files using professional voice talent who are fluent speakers of Pacific languages.
Specialist services
- create resources to extend budgets (for example, resources for teaching science that are also early readers)
- bring ministries of education together to share permission to re-edition resources, thereby reducing costs
- re-edit and re-illustrate resources published in the past (in black and white), giving them a fresh new look, making them much more engaging for students, and bringing them up-to-date.
We can help you to secure permissions and protect your copyright.
We can assist you to:
- obtain rights and permissions from copyright holders
- secure translation rights
- commission original content you will own
- negotiate access from traditional stakeholders and ensure culturally appropriate acknowledgment
- create an intellectual property database
- obtain ISBNs and apply these as item numbers and bar codes.
Image by Judith Kunzlé in Te Tāmaru ‘ō Māmā Roimata (2016) developed for Ministry of Education, New Zealand
We can assist you with the technical requirements and logistics of printing.
This includes:
- sourcing competitive printing quotes
- providing printing solutions designed for tropical environments, including binding and format alternatives
- costing low-volume offset and digital printing
- costing black and white, two-colour, and full-colour productions
- providing quality control at prepress and press-checks (including at room proof and hand fold)
- scheduling printing and arrange weather-proof shipping
- providing secure storage of print-ready files for future reprints.
We draw upon thirty years of experience in publishing Pacific resources.
We develop:
- books for students
- teacher support material
- family support material
- print and digital resources
- audio read-along recordings
- educational brochures, flyers, and posters
- workbooks and training manuals
- adult literacy materials (both print and digital).
Ask us for indicative costs and a timeline to support discussions with your development partners.
Image by Fraser Williamson in Rat and Octopus (2018) developed for the Ministry of Education, New Zealand
For estimates, quotes, tenders, and project contracting advice, contact:
Alex Collins, Chief Executive
Don Long, Publisher
Peggy Nesbitt, Educator
Image by Vaitoa Baker in Ko Tinilau ma Hina (2018) developed for Department of Education, Tokelau