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Teaching resources you can check before you trust.

He pūtaketanga ako mō Aotearoa, heonga mai i te tuhinga tūturu o te marautanga, ā, e tātariatia ana pūāhua-pūāhua — kaua e hanga. Ko te ako tūkura wātea katoa, kīhai he puka kaiwaho. An Aotearoa teaching platform where curriculum references are quoted from official source text and checked character by character, not generated. The teaching content is free to browse. You do not need an account to see whether any of this is true.

  • Live and deployed
  • Pre-revenue
  • Free to browse
  • Built in Aotearoa

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01 / Te Mumura — The problem, and why now

Twenty minutes between classes

A secondary teacher planning tomorrow's lesson may have twenty minutes between classes. In that time they need something that fits the curriculum, fits the year level, fits the learners in front of them, and will not embarrass them in front of students, whānau or colleagues.

Generic AI is fast, but it is not a curriculum authority

It writes fluent text that can name an achievement objective which does not exist, or attach a senior assessment standard to a Year 9 class. The teacher carries that risk personally.

Official curriculum is authoritative but slow

It says what should be learned. It does not say how to teach a mixed-ability Year 10 class by Tuesday.

International material is abundant but misplaced

For a teacher embedding te ao Māori and local context responsibly, overseas material is not neutral. It is extra work, because it has to be unpicked before it can be used.

One wrong curriculum reference on a handout is a professional credibility problem, not a software bug.

Why now — two curricula in play

Aotearoa is mid-curriculum-transition. Te Mātaiaho is replacing the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum but is still arriving, and it is still confusing. Teachers are planning across both at once, and many still prefer the one they know.

So every existing resource's claim of "curriculum aligned" is in question right now, all at once, for every teacher in the country. That is exactly the moment generic AI answers fastest and is most often wrong.

Te Kete Ako carries both curricula, separately, and never blends them.

02 / Te Tātari — The check

Watch it check itself

A real achievement objective from the New Zealand Curriculum 2007, and what happens to it before a teacher ever sees it on a page.

NZC 2007 Social Sciences Level 5 Verified against source

Understand how systems of government in New Zealand operate and affect people’s lives, and how they compare with another system.

128 of 128 characters matched against source

If it matches

It is shown on the resource, with the curriculum and the level named.

If it does not

It is removed. Not softened, not paraphrased, not hedged into something defensible.

Why it matters

A generated reference looks identical to a real one until a teacher is challenged on it.

03 / Te Huarahi — Product, and how to find it

117 unit plans, open to anyone

Not a prototype and not a mock-up. A teacher can open the unit browser right now, with no account, and see every unit across ten subjects and fourteen year levels. Term-long arcs, not loose worksheets: kaupapa, curriculum progression and classroom-ready resources that hold together.

The free layer removes the cost of finding.

Find from four directions

  • Subject
  • Year level
  • Resource type
  • Classroom need

See it live Open Browse

The Te Kete Ako unit browser, showing 117 unit plans across 10 subjects and 14 year levels.
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04 / Counted, not estimated

An estate, not a mock-up

4,877
Teaching resources
117
Unit plans
~900
Lessons
5,932
Curriculum statements
2,277
Audited alignments

Verified against the live database on 9 August 2026. These numbers move, and when they move this page is wrong until it is corrected. That is the trade for stating them precisely instead of saying "thousands".

05 / Kua tīpakoia, kāore i te hanga — Retrieved, not generated

The authority comes from somewhere the AI does not invent

Generic models generate curriculum text. Te Kete Ako retrieves it. A curriculum statement shown on a resource is quoted from official source material and checked character by character against it. Where a match cannot be verified, the reference is removed rather than softened.

A deliberately unglamorous commitment, and the one teachers can feel.

A Te Kete Ako lesson page: Antarctica in a Warming World, with lesson navigation and a timed lesson-at-a-glance run sheet.
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Alternative Fast NZ curriculum Source shown Local context
Generic AIYesSometimes inventedNoGeneric
Overseas marketplacesYesNot alignedNoMust be unpicked
Ministry documentsNoAuthoritativeIs the sourceNot a lesson
The teacher's own eveningNoDependsIn their headExcellent
Te Kete AkoYesBoth curricula, quotedYes, checkableDesigned in

The honest competitor set is not other EdTech. The row that matters is "source shown" — the only column a teacher can verify before they stake their credibility on a handout.

06 / Te Arotake — The audit that counts against us

We caught ourselves being wrong

An internal audit found that a large share of Te Kete Ako's own curriculum alignment had been paraphrased or left unsourced rather than quoted. Not a competitor's product. Ours.

It was found, retired, and that layer was rebuilt against verified sources. It is on this page because it is the most useful thing we know: if a project with every incentive to look good can drift that way, teachers have good reason to distrust any tool that claims "curriculum aligned" without showing its source.

The verification machinery exists because we needed it ourselves first.

Built for these classrooms, in this country, by someone who has to teach in one on Monday.

Aotearoa New Zealand

07 / Te Aronga Tohu — The model

Free to view. Paid to work.

  1. 01

    Open web — anyone

    The teaching library is open, including to people with no account. A teacher has to be able to check this work before paying for any of it.

  2. 02

    Kaiako Free — an account

    Saving to a personal kete, and a monthly allowance of prints and downloads.

  3. 03

    Kaiako Pro — professional workflow

    Te Wānanga drafts a lesson from a plain-language description, Creation Studio refines it, and printing is unlimited. Prices are published on the pricing page.

Value comes from removing three costs from a teacher's week: finding, verifying and adapting. Only the third is charged for. The platform is pre-revenue, and nothing has been sold.

08 / Te Whānuitanga — Scale, sequenced by certainty

What would make this bigger than one person

At the current price, a few hundred subscribers is a working solo business, not a large one. Three things would have to become true to pass it, and each sits behind the one before.

  1. Now · worth testing

    Institutions follow teachers

    Departments, schools and kura license once individual teachers already use and trust it. Never the other way around: a top-down sale to a school whose teachers have not chosen the tool is a renewal that does not come.

  2. If true · contingent

    The corpus becomes substrate

    A verified, Aotearoa-specific curriculum corpus is exactly the layer a teacher-facing AI cannot generate for itself. If governed AI becomes the norm in classrooms, whoever holds the trustworthy local substrate is not in the same business as another chat wrapper.

  3. Later · least proven

    The machinery travels

    The verification machinery is curriculum-agnostic. Other jurisdictions are too small for global publishers to localise honestly and have the same trust problem. This is the furthest-out hypothesis and the least proven.

None of the three is proven. Only the first is worth spending money on now, and saying so is the point: a plan that claims all three at once is not a plan.

09 / Te Kaihanga — The builder is the user

One person, who has to teach from it on Monday

Tobias McRae, completing a Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) at the University of Auckland, in Social Studies and Digital Technologies. Every lesson taught on placement is planned in Te Kete Ako. That is the whole design principle: the person building it is the person who has to teach from it, which closes a loop education technology usually leaves open.

10 / Ngā mea e wātea ana — What is still open

Named, bounded, testable

A platform whose argument is verifiability does not get to be vague about its own gaps. Four unresolved truths, stated as a risk register: what we know, what remains open, and the evidence that would resolve it.

Willingness to pay

Known
Teachers use the platform to teach.
Open
None has been asked to pay.
Next evidence
An observed cohort conversion test.

Cultural authority

Known
Material needing kaumātua or kaiako Māori authority is flagged on authoring, not held back.
Open
That authority has not yet been formally reviewed.
Next evidence
Review via iwi approached for the purpose.

Accessibility & privacy

Known
Self-assessed against the standards we hold the content to.
Open
Self-assessed is not the same as independently reviewed.
Next evidence
External accessibility and privacy audit.

Search funnel

Known
Search demand is real and measurable.
Open
The funnel does not yet convert it.
Next evidence
Funnel instrumentation and a conversion experiment.

11 / Haere, tātaria — Go and check

Nothing here needs to be taken on trust

The library is open, the units are complete, and the curriculum references can be read against their sources.

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