Trish Mackay

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Trish is one of our part-time trainers and has used Kagan across three schools - from Juniors to Year 8

“Kagan has made a difference in every school I’ve been in - not just with the students but with the teachers as well. It gives them so many management strategies which in turn sit beautifully with the structures they are using to deliver their programme. For new teachers, it’s incredible. My sister’s practice turned around with Kagan. Not that she wasn’t a good teacher, because she was. But Kagan elevated her management and class culture to a whole new level. Since I did my first workshop with Jennie, I’ve been hooked. And that was only a 45 minute intro session!

Being part of Kagan has added to my life in many ways, as everyone involved with it is just amazing! I’d like to be able to give up my July holidays every year just to go to Summer Academy in Orlando and learn and catch up with the US trainers and the other internationals. Anyone wanting to sponsor me, feel free!

Anyway, at my current school we’ve been been reviewing our ORRS students IEPs with Teacher Aides. They reported that Kagan has made a significant difference to their non-verbal ORRS students. Due to feeling included and safe, they are verbalising much more with improvement in clarity and range of vocabulary. And that’s from our Teacher Aides!

As I say to anyone who will listen - if you aren’t doing Kagan, what are you doing? Because IMHO, and thousands of others, there is nothing else that even comes close to it.”