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Deliver on NZ’s new literacy mandate – with an approach proven to work for every student
Wednesday, 17th September 2025, 4.00 PM Auckland Time
From 2025, all state schools in New Zealand must teach reading using an explicit, structured literacy approach – backed by a government drive to lift achievement in literacy and numeracy.
With Direct Instruction (DI), you can meet and exceed these requirements while ensuring every student in your classroom masters the fundamentals – no matter their background, ability, or starting point.
- Why DI works so well – especially for disadvantaged learners who struggle with standard teaching methods.
- How you can deliver DI in the classroom without adding to your workload – whether you’re completely new to it, or looking to improve.
- Exactly how and why Toni Hatten-Roberts, founder of Mastery Schools Australia and New Zealand, has implemented DI in her classrooms. And why her work has been so successful, it’s gained national attention.
- Gives students agency over their learning
- Provides students and teachers with immediate, detailed, and legible feedback
- Accurately measures what each student knows, doesn't know, and are ready to learn
- Ensures a mastery rate of more than 90%
- Has helped more than 20 million students at thousands of schools globally
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
4:00 PM Auckland
SPEAKER
Toni is the founder of Mastery Schools Australia and New Zealand, with a background in teaching, school leadership, and education reform .
Toni’s established and growing network of schools uses Direct Instruction exclusively to deliver exceptional student outcomes. In 2025, she opened the first Mastery School in Christchurch, and further NZ expansion is underway.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.