Nicole Manawatu-Brennan is a Māori education leader specialising in attendance and whānau engagement. She holds an Executive MBA and has undertaken professional learning at Harvard University in the Dual Capacity-Building Framework. Nicole developed and has led the Hine Tū Tama Tū Framework for the past five years, using whānau engagement as a deliberate strategy to improve attendance and educational achievement.
Raewyn Hodge is a hands-on attendance and engagement practitioner who leads the Attendance and Engagement team for Tuahiwi Education Services. Raewyn graduated Te Pīnakitanga ki te Reo Kairangi and has undertaken professional learning at Harvard University in the Dual Capacity-Building Framework and brings a strong relational approach to practice, working directly alongside schools and whānau to strengthen engagement, improve attendance and support educational achievement.
Information in the menus below was updated in October 2026. To contribute information that may be of interest to others in your country, please contact your country’s hosts: Nicole Manawatu-Brennan (nicole@tuahiwied.co.nz ) or Raewyn Hodge (raewyn@tuahiwied.co.nz).
To provide details of relevant people, groups, and/or organisations, please contact your country’s hosts.
Our Voices
Our Voices is an innovative project that has developed new ways of collecting longitudinal information as well as new approaches to analysing information from young people so we can get a fuller picture of what shapes their wellbeing. https://ourvoices.auckland.ac.nz/
