Lizzie Bayliss

Editor
Tāmaki Makaurau

In a previous lifetime Lizzie worked in fashion. She was the founder of Iconic New Zealand label Ruby. A label with its roots in skateboarding and snowboarding but with a cute feminine twist. After selling the business she moved to teaching in 2010 which was a change ultimately embedded in wanting to give back to society rather than take away. A career in education that has been so fulfilling and on the most part worked harmoniously with raising two children. Lizzie has now taken another pivot to add a journal to her expanding repertoire of mahi.

Over her career in education Lizzie has worked in inner city schools that are fully innovative and collaborative as well as working in multicultural schools alongside bilingual children helping them with the English they need to thrive in the New Zealand Curriculum. Lizzie has worked as a Numeracy Leader and an Across School Leader in her Kāhui Ako, developing Digital Technologies and communications across schools. Through all of this she has developed a real passion for fit for purpose education, for equity in education, and for all of us to stop and think holistically about what we think the real purpose of school is. However it was her work in coaching, combined by her drive to continuously innovate and improve that led to the creation of everyday. 

Still working in the classroom, Lizzie is also a consultant for The Education Group helping schools with their pedagogy and curriculum delivery. She does a lot of work around collaboration, innovation, inclusion, developing cultural capabilities and assessment for learning with a general shift away from traditional to more progressive, fit for purpose teaching approaches.