Step Up Resources is owned and operated by Katharine Beaumont and Sandra Edkins.
Katharine Beaumont is a Kip McGrath Education Centre Director. She is a fully qualified teacher who has over 15 years teaching experience in all levels of the New Zealand Education system, including specialist knowledge in the maths (primary and secondary) and reading (junior primary) areas. She has also taught gifted and talented education programmes and holds a certificate in adult teaching. It is in the Kip McGrath tuition environment where Step Up Resources were born in 2004, and they are now used extensively to complement and supplement learning programmes.
Sandra Edkins is an experienced teacher who has tutored at the Te Kuiti Kip McGrath Centre. She has taught largely in multi-level classrooms and developed her own teaching resources over the years to cater for class programmes and individual student needs. Creative and innovative, it is her inspiration and ideas that have formed the activities in many of the Step Up Resources.
Sandra and Katharine have been teaching and working together since 1998. Katharine has recently relocated to Christchurch so Sandra handles the administrative side of Step Up Resources and Katharine handles the marketing side. Both contribute to the writing of new resources.