At Essential Resources it is our unequivocal aim to make teachers’ working lives easier by producing innovative, high-quality publications that are designed for today’s learning environment. Our practical resources support teachers to teach effectively and in a way that challenges students to develop critical thinking skills and strong problem-solving strategies to equip them for a today’s fast-paced, changing world.

Huia is an independent publisher with a focus on supporting Māori and Pacific writers, describing the diversity of Māori experiences and perspectives, and promoting the Māori language. Huia publishes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, as well as educational resources in the Māori language.

The Wendy Pye Group is an educational publisher that specialises in literacy learning and English Language Learning delivered on tablets. We work in many countries around the world. Our philosopy has been to teach the world to read: to connect the world with digital and print resources using subscription websites, apps and books that mirror the digital reading packs.

Clean Slate Press is a publisher of high-quality student books for the international market. Its products include early literacy and grade-levelled fiction and non-fiction for grades K–9. Clean Slate Press publishes literacy, social studies, science, and math books that promote critical thinking and a love of learning. Clean Slate Press is proud to be the exclusive educational publisher of Joy Cowley.

We write and publish Te Reo Singalong books. We started the company in 2012 and since then we have sold around 50,000 Te Reo Singalong books into early childhood centres and schools throughout New Zealand. We currently have 13 titles available, with two more planned for 2017. We also perform our books in a Te Reo Singalong show for children and present Te Reo Pronunciation workshops for teachers. We won the Print category at the Māori Language Awards in 2013. We also won two awards at the CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards in 2015 – the judges choice award for Best Resource in Te Reo Māori and the Teachers’ Choice award for Best Resource in Te Reo Māori.

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is New Zealand’s only national, independent educational research organisation. NZCER Press is the organisation’s publishing arm, publishing research-based assessment tools, journals, books and classroom resources, written by external authors and in-house researchers. Their publications are designed to meet the needs they identify across the education sector through their research work.

Global Education Systems (GES) publish quality literacy resources to stimulate young minds. Resources developed by Jill Eggleton QSO, international educational consultant and author, include writing, guided reading, shared reading and independent reading.