Ignite
Innovate
Empower
Cre8first is a company that strives to ignite the creative power of all learners so they can showcase their knowledge in innovative ways.
When we work within schools, we aim to inspire and empower educators in leveraging Apple products and learning material to transform teaching and learning. We strive to create professional learning programs that cater to the specific needs of the educators. Exploring how technology-rich environments can align with your schools’ vision to support the aspirations for learning.
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We provide a comprehensive range of services including leadership and strategic planning sessions, interactive digital creativity workshops, personalised 1:1 planning sessions, as well as in-class modelling, coaching and mentoring. We are accredited to deliver Ministry of Education Regionally Allocated PLD.
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When you engage with an Apple Professional Learning Specialist — either in person or online — you receive coaching, mentoring and support that’s personalised to the needs of your educators and students.
By bringing an expert to your school, you’ll cultivate learning environments that address the needs of all learners and help create innovative approaches to curriculum and assessment. Specialists tailor support through a comprehensive set of offerings helping educators on their learning journey from skill acquisition to instructional innovation.
Going further, education leaders work with Specialists to build leadership capacity with executive coaching and strategic planning, while IT teams can get support help connect technology implementations to teaching and learning.
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We create personalised professional learning plans utilising a range of comprehensive support offerings.
Foundation Workshops
Integration Workshops
Innovation Workshop
Coaching and Mentoring
Build basic knowledge, skills and confidence of teachers in the use of Apple technology and engage them on the path to Apple Teacher recognition.
Explore Everyone Can Create and Everyone Can Code and support teachers to integrate technology into their curriculum. Facilitate the opportunity for teachers to reflect and document their practices and gain Apple Teacher Portfolio recognition.
Go further with Apple technology with augmented reality, coding and app development and Apple’s professional creativity tools to deepen understanding and enable innovation.
Work side-by-side side with educators to enact continual, active and reflective coaching cycles. Facilitate job-embedded support through co-teaching, in-class modeling, curriculum planning and one-to-one or small-group coaching sessions.
Local Support Team
Measuring Impact
Education Deployment Fundamentals
Leadership Visioning and Planning
Build capacity in schools through equipping teacher and student champions with the skills and resources to serve as in-house skills consultants in the use of Apple devices and apps for learning and teaching.
Support schools to conduct research to gather data and measure the impact of technology on learning and teaching in their context. Determine areas of strength and areas that need further support and development.
Introduce school leaders, teachers, and IT teams to best-in-class deployment and management of Apple technology to make a positive impact on teaching and learning goals.
Support leadership teams with workshops and coaching experiences to develop a shared vision, set goals, build capacity and develop a school culture to enable technology-inspired change across the their organization.