Meet our Staff
At BTI, you will learn from staff who are experienced teachers and educators, researchers, practitioners, health workers and graduates themselves. Many have worked in private practice, for public institutions and for universities in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Biography
Biography
Erika is a Senior Educator – Kaihautū in the School of Secondary Teacher Education. She qualified as a secondary teacher in 1995 and brings rich experience in a range of secondary schools across New Zealand, and England. Her professional journey includes positions as an art and art history teacher, Head of Department roles and school leadership experience directing Christian discipleship programmes. Erika has held Kāhui Ako (Communities of Learning) Within school and Across school Senior Leadership positions to advocate and support schools and kura to collaborate and share expertise to support student achievement and improve pathways.
Erika has diverse experience as an educator; Artist, Researcher, and Teacher (A/r/tographer) and brings an innovative and creative approach to leading teaching and learning as well as a good balance of theory and practice. She has successfully led students and staff in management, mentoring and pastoral capacities, initiating and implementing curriculum and assessment practice.
Erika’s research (Masters and Doctor of Education) has focused on school leadership, leadership styles and Professional Learning Communities. Her doctoral research used innovative arts-based methodologies to explore a leadership perspective on how the guiding statements of mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian schools. This mahi informs research communities and educationalists of creative ways to reflect on school culture.
Research Projects
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Christian Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools (Doctoral Dissertation, Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington). https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.22345171
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading ladies: Portraits of principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community [Master’s thesis, Open Access Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington). http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2298
Research Awards
Recipient of PGSA (Victoria University Postgraduate Students Association) Research Excellence Award
Selected Publications
Snedden, E. (2013). The Leadership Styles and Practices of Women Secondary School Principals. Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 25(1).
Conference Presentations
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools. [Paper presentation]. NZARE Conference 2023, Masey University, Palmerston North, NZ.
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading Ladies. Portraits of Principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community. [Paper presented]. The Pacific Regional Leadership Symposium, A Decade of Re-thinking Pacific Education 2001-2011, USP Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji.
Meet our Staff
At BTI, you will learn from staff who are experienced teachers and educators, researchers, practitioners, health workers and graduates themselves. Many have worked in private practice, for public institutions and for universities in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas.
Biography
Biography
Erika is a Senior Educator – Kaihautū in the School of Secondary Teacher Education. She qualified as a secondary teacher in 1995 and brings rich experience in a range of secondary schools across New Zealand, and England. Her professional journey includes positions as an art and art history teacher, Head of Department roles and school leadership experience directing Christian discipleship programmes. Erika has held Kāhui Ako (Communities of Learning) Within school and Across school Senior Leadership positions to advocate and support schools and kura to collaborate and share expertise to support student achievement and improve pathways.
Erika has diverse experience as an educator; Artist, Researcher, and Teacher (A/r/tographer) and brings an innovative and creative approach to leading teaching and learning as well as a good balance of theory and practice. She has successfully led students and staff in management, mentoring and pastoral capacities, initiating and implementing curriculum and assessment practice.
Erika’s research (Masters and Doctor of Education) has focused on school leadership, leadership styles and Professional Learning Communities. Her doctoral research used innovative arts-based methodologies to explore a leadership perspective on how the guiding statements of mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian schools. This mahi informs research communities and educationalists of creative ways to reflect on school culture.
Research Projects
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Christian Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools (Doctoral Dissertation, Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington). https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.22345171
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading ladies: Portraits of principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community [Master’s thesis, Open Access Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington). http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2298
Research Awards
Recipient of PGSA (Victoria University Postgraduate Students Association) Research Excellence Award
Selected Publications
Snedden, E. (2013). The Leadership Styles and Practices of Women Secondary School Principals. Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 25(1).
Conference Presentations
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools. [Paper presentation]. NZARE Conference 2023, Masey University, Palmerston North, NZ.
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading Ladies. Portraits of Principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community. [Paper presented]. The Pacific Regional Leadership Symposium, A Decade of Re-thinking Pacific Education 2001-2011, USP Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji.
Biography
Erika is a Senior Educator – Kaihautū in the School of Secondary Teacher Education. She qualified as a secondary teacher in 1995 and brings rich experience in a range of secondary schools across New Zealand, and England. Her professional journey includes positions as an art and art history teacher, Head of Department roles and school leadership experience directing Christian discipleship programmes. Erika has held Kāhui Ako (Communities of Learning) Within school and Across school Senior Leadership positions to advocate and support schools and kura to collaborate and share expertise to support student achievement and improve pathways.
Erika has diverse experience as an educator; Artist, Researcher, and Teacher (A/r/tographer) and brings an innovative and creative approach to leading teaching and learning as well as a good balance of theory and practice. She has successfully led students and staff in management, mentoring and pastoral capacities, initiating and implementing curriculum and assessment practice.
Erika’s research (Masters and Doctor of Education) has focused on school leadership, leadership styles and Professional Learning Communities. Her doctoral research used innovative arts-based methodologies to explore a leadership perspective on how the guiding statements of mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian schools. This mahi informs research communities and educationalists of creative ways to reflect on school culture.
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Christian Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools (Doctoral Dissertation, Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington). https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.22345171
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading ladies: Portraits of principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community [Master’s thesis, Open Access Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington). http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2298
Research Awards
Recipient of PGSA (Victoria University Postgraduate Students Association) Research Excellence Award
Snedden, E. (2013). The Leadership Styles and Practices of Women Secondary School Principals. Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 25(1).
Snedden, E. (2023). Voice of Vision: Crafting Culture as Symbolic Stories. An Arts-based Inquiry approach to exploring how mission and vision are enacted in New Zealand Christian Schools. [Paper presentation]. NZARE Conference 2023, Masey University, Palmerston North, NZ.
Snedden, E. (2011). Leading Ladies. Portraits of Principals: The leadership styles and practices of women secondary school principals reflected within a principal professional learning community. [Paper presented]. The Pacific Regional Leadership Symposium, A Decade of Re-thinking Pacific Education 2001-2011, USP Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji.