Sarah Aiono
Closing the book on open-plan classrooms
16 Jul 2025
Dr Sarah Aiono is the CEO and Director of pedagogy consultancy Longworth Education and joins Emile Donovan to discuss the change. Audio
Learning support budget fails to deliver genuine reform: researcher
27 May 2025
Last week's budget contained a big boost for learning support - described as a "seismic shift" by the Minister of Education, but some in the sector say genuine system reform is missing. Audio
Supporting teachers to bring play back into the classroom
23 Jun 2021
Sarah Aiono is a teacher and in-school consultant on a mission to bringing more play into the primary school classroom. She's founded Longworth Education, a company which supports teachers to… Audio
The Hawke's Bay forest school getting international attention
21 Dec 2017
Sarah Aiono couldn't see her "rambunctious outdoor kid" sitting on a mat and conforming, so from age five he spent three days a week at Longworth Forest – a nature school near Napier. Audio
