Assessment PLD from the MoE
Why should you choose us for your Assessment PLD
At Sharp Kinane, our facilitation practice is grounded in the Science of Learning — for literacy, numeracy, and in teaching and assessment. Our experienced team brings deep expertise across all primary year levels, tailoring support to each school’s unique context and goals. Every plan we co-construct is bespoke, designed to build cohesive, confident teaching teams and visible growth for tamariki. Schools also benefit from access to our comprehensive resource bank, developed and refined through years of partnership across Aotearoa.
All our facilitators are Ministry of Education accredited and trained in the Best Practice Assessment Guidelines (BPAG), the Assessment and Aromatawai Rubrics, and SMART. These frameworks guide our work, helping schools assess and teach with clarity, purpose, and consistency. We offer both in-person and online support, responding promptly and working alongside you to make professional learning practical, authentic, and aligned with your school’s vision.
Assessment Matters
Using Assessment effectively is a key strategy to ensure student success. We can assist you to understand:
- Where are your learners now?
- Where do they need to go next?
- How will we help them to get there?
We can work alongside your teachers to help them:
- Identify strengths, gaps, and misconceptions
- Plan targeted teaching
- Group learners effectively
- Evaluate whether teaching strategies are working
At a whole-school level we can guide you to:
- Interpret your data for decision-making (curriculum, resourcing, interventions)
- Track progress over time across cohorts and subjects
- Inform reporting to whānau and the community
- Support equity — showing where groups of learners may need extra support
Assessment happens all the time and we can support you to assess
- Diagnostically (before learning — to find starting points)
- Formatively (during learning — questioning, discussion, feedback)
- Summatively (after learning — tasks, tests, projects)
What schools should be asking about their assessment data
- How sure are we that all the assessments we use in our school are being used to support teaching and learning?
- In what ways do we involve our students in the assessment process?
- Are we confident in our knowledge of the progress and achievement of our students across the curriculum? Do our students know?
- How confident are we that assessment tools are being administered properly so that the results are reliable? What are our checks on this?
- How sure are we of the effectiveness of the moderation processes used in the school?
- How confidently are our teachers able to analyse assessment data?
What will this MoE Funded PLD provide?
The assessment PLD includes:
- Six days of f2f in-school support
- Eight Communities of Practice sessions over the four terms of 2026
- Individualised support, aligned to your school’s identified needs
- The PLD will focus on reliable assessment practice, teaching practice based on assessment evidence, clarity in learning, meaningful aromatowai and the development of sustainable systems within school.
Key dates
| Assessment PLD MoE Timeline | Dates |
| Applications Open | 17th November 2025 |
| Applications Close | 12th December 2025 |
| Application Outcome notified | 19th December 2025 |
| Provider Enrolment period | 19th December 2025 – 27th February 2026 |
If you are wanting to book your MoE provided Assessment PLD with us, please click on the button below to make your booking request.
Welcome to Sharp, Kinane Limited. We are an MoE RFP registered company offering accredited facilitator services to schools nationwide. We pride ourselves in the quality service we offer to schools. Our PLD solutions are tailored to the individual needs and goals of our client schools. We work in class with your teachers in adopting a blended approach of co-construction, modelling and observational support for teachers. In addition to this our extensive range of resources we have to offer to our client schools ensures that teachers have access to a rich vein of content immediately. As part of our co-construction support, we also create resources and planning solutions for teachers relevant to their need.
- Your contract will receive 100% of the PLD hours awarded to you. This means:
- We do not deduct preparation time from your total hours
- We do not “allocate” preparation time to any teacher only days
- We do not deduct hours for travel time
- We do not “allocate” preparation time to any teacher only days
What makes Sharp, Kinane Limited different?
- We listen, we reflect, we improve, you benefit
- We will deliver your PLD on site and face to face, in class, making the PLD real, authentic and immediate for your teachers
- Our PLD is tailored to suit the specific needs of your school and teachers
- We place the expertise where it is needed, this means that you could get more than one facilitator delivering your PLD or we may deliver specialist PLD remotely, where needed
- Your school will get 100% access to all of our considerable range of resources, without any additional cost to you, or with any impact upon your contract hours
- We pride ourselves on providing innovative PLD to all of our schools
- Our clients are loyal, they want us to return, they want their contracts to roll over and for us to continue to deliver the hours awarded
- We collaborate as a team, we continually improve our products and resources to ensure our client schools get the best PLD on offer.
In addition:
- All our Facilitators deliver high quality PLD
- Our PLD is tailored to suit the individual environment and capability of the teacher
- Our team covers all aspects of the curriculum and year levels
- We assist you to write your PLD proposals, free of charge
- We provide detailed notes and individual goals/pathways for teachers, which can be used to support appraisals
- WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT EDUCATION
Want to know more? Please contact us and we will get your PLD proposal up and running.
Our facilitators are accredited to deliver the centrally funded PLD contracts as well as the Digital Technology Curriculum PLD contracts. We are based in Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau, Waikato and Taranaki, but service PLD Contracts as far north as Kaitaia and as far south as Hokitika.
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