Support for ECE kaiako, in plain language
Free tools for early childhood teachers in Aotearoa. Check your pay, check a contract or email privately, and get help when something isn't right.
Am I paid correctly?
Answer a few questions and see the pay parity minimum for your step, next to what you're paid now.
✎Check it before you post or send it
Asking a group about an email or contract? Remove names and private details first, then post it safely or send it for a personal review.
?Get help
Talk to someone who knows ECE from the inside, about pay, contracts, performance plans or meetings.
Your answers stay on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it.
Am I paid correctly?
For certificated teachers at education and care centres. It takes about two minutes, and your answers stay on your device.
Check it before you post or send it
About to ask a Facebook group about an email, a contract or something that happened at work? Paste it below first. First we'll find names and private details so you can remove them. Names become labels like [CHILD 1], [STAFF 1] or [OWNER 1], so the meaning stays clear but nobody can be identified. This happens on your device. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.
Spotted something we missed? Highlight it in the box and press Remove selected text.
Check a screenshot or photo
For example an incident or accident form, a roster or a screenshot of an email or message. The picture is read on your device and is never uploaded. We'll cover every name and private detail with a label.
Missed something? Drag across it on the picture to cover it. Tap a box you added to remove it.
What we covered
Text we read from your picture, cleaned
Handwriting and blurry text can be missed, so check the picture itself too.
Get help
When something at work doesn't feel right, you don't have to work it out alone.
Who you'll be talking to
A registered ECE teacher who now works as an employment advocate for ECE staff, and only acts for employees, never for centres or owners.
What I can help with
- Pay and pay parity: checking your step, and asking for back pay
- Employment agreements, before you sign or when something changes
- Performance improvement plans and warnings
- Disciplinary and investigation meetings, including coming with you
- Personal grievances, mediation and the Employment Relations Authority
How it works
- Get in touch and tell me briefly what's happening. Leave out names. You can use the contract and email check to clean anything you send.
- I'll tell you plainly whether I can help, and what it would cost, before any work starts. My fees are fixed, not hourly.
- If you go ahead, I'll work through it with you, step by step.