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ONLINE COMMUNITY MANAGER, ‘ACEL ONLINE’
Miss Debra Brydon is Online Community Manager, ACEL Online. Miss Brydon has been involved with ACEL (formerly ACEA) for 20 years, since 1991, as Managing Editor of Directions in Education and International Directions in Education (ACEL and CCEA respectively), Ed-Vine, ACEL FastNews and several ACEL online conferences. She is a Fellow of the ACEL. Miss Brydon is also the inaugural executive editor of two Australian education leadership journals, Leadership in Focus and Principal Matters. As owner/manager of CyberText, Miss Brydon also works with various education organisations in Australia and the United Kingdom, including International Networking for Educational Transformation, providing project management of video online conferences and other communication ventures. She has spoken extensively to educators in Australian and international locations including Recife (Brazil), Helsinki, Kyongju (Korea), Amsterdam, London and Mauritius. She can be contacted via Skype at: debra.brydon1, by email at: debra@cybertext.net.au or by phone + 61 413009988 (international) or 0413009988 (Australia).
EXPERT COMMENTATORS 2011
Dorothy Andrews
Associate Professor Dorothy Andrews is Director Leadership Research (LRI) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, in Toowoomba, Queensland.
Mr Nicholas Burnett is a member of the ACEL Leadership Faculty. He is also an Associate of Warwick Centre for Learning Behaviour (WCfLB) and is its Asia-Pacific representative. He is an experienced and licensed trainer in C-THR-U Behaviour – which helps people see through the behaviour to understand the processes that drive it. It provides a clear framework for uncommon sense positive behaviour management. Mr Burnett is an experienced trainer and Director in the Team-Teach Behaviour Support Training approach and an accredited coach with Growth Coaching International. He is also an author and presenter whose area of expertises are behaviour, disability, inclusion and leadership. Mr Burnett is an accomplished educational consultant, with extensive experience in developing capacity at state, district and local levels; providing effective direction and vision.
Mr Robin Clarke (MEd. BA. Dip Ed. Grad Dip Ed Admin.) is a life-time educator with experience as a teacher, principal, superintendent, principal consultant, and university lecturer. Achievements include Director Generals Merit Award, Prize winner for MEd. thesis, honorary senior research fellow at ECU and President of WA Secondary Principals Association. Over the past 10 years he has devoted his time, energy and personal finances to the development of a teacher’s online planning system for all States. The teacher unions in WA and SA have an agreement to provide members with access to the program. The Australian Curriculum has provided great opportunities to apply the experiences of the past decade to supporting effective implementation of the major change initiative.
Dr Roderick Crouch is the inaugural principal of Moreton Bay Boys College, a P-12 all boys school in Brisbane, Queensland. Dr Crouch is a life member and former treasurer of the Australian Primary Principals Association. He is a specialist in middle school, having undertaken the first study of leadership in middle school to be conducted in Australia, and boys education, and has both presented at a variety of conferences and consulted to schools on both of these topics. Dr Crouch chairs the editorial board for Leadership in Focus, an educational leadership journal, and has written extensively for ACEL’s Directions in Education. Dr Crouch’s current areas of research and interest is in 21st century skills and global citizens. From 1 August, he will be principal of Victoria International School of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, a four-year-old P-12 co-ed school of 900, with 63 nationalities.
Anne has worked in both government and independent school sectors for over 20 years, ranging from an agricultural area school on the South coast of South Australia to Scotch College in Adelaide and Wilderness School, an all girls environment. She has held positions as House Head, Student Services Coordinator and Head of Health and Personal Development. She was Head of Middle School at St John’s Grammar and during that time was a member of the executive committee of the Independent Schools Senior Staff Association (ISSSA) in Adelaide. Anne is currently Deputy Principal and Head of Senior School at Scotch Oakburn College, Launceston.
Dr Scott Eacott is a lecturer in educational leadership, management and administration and program convenor of the Master of Leadership and Management in Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He teaches educational leadership courses at both the under- and post-graduate levels in addition to supervising a number of doctoral students. Scott is the leader of the Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) research group at Newcastle. His current has two foci: i) school leadership practice; and ii) the preparation and development of school leaders, particularly by universities.
Dr David Gurr is a senior lecturer in educational leadership within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, and has a 30-year background in secondary teaching, educational psychology, school supervision, and research in educational leadership. He is a founding member of the International Successful School Principalship Project and the a research fellow with the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change. He has conducted reviews of schools in Victoria, South Australia and Hong Kong. He has published extensively including three books (two co-edited), 19 book chapters, 35 journal articles and numerous professional articles. David has been the vice-president of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and past editor of Hot Topics, Monograph and the academic journal, Leading and Managing. He was made a fellow of ACEL in 2006, and awarded the National Presidential Citation for 2004.
Ms Aine Maher
Dr William McKeith has worked in all sectors and levels of school education and has four years experience in industrial relations and twenty five as a school principal. He is currently working with a number of management teams and schools in Australia and South East Asia.
Mr James Roberts commenced teaching in 1988. After a year of teaching in WA government schools, he spent 19 years working in metropolitan and country WA Catholic schools, including 6 ½ years as a student coordinator, three years as a sports coordinator and six years as a coordinator of the Technology & Enterprise learning area. In 2008, he moved to Victoria to take up the position of Director of Learning at St Peter’s College, a Catholic school in Cranbourne, south-east of Melbourne. After three years in this position, he took up a new position within the college as the deputy principal for its new Cranbourne East Campus. His educational interests include boys education, using ICT in the classroom, 21st Century learning, and the use of data.
Mr Alan Stevens is Associate Principal at Sawtry Community College in Cambridgeshire, England (www.sawtrycc.com )an 11-18 comprehensive school with 1400 students specialising in mathematics & computing and a training school for teachers. He is also Executive Director for the Cambridge Partnership initial teacher training programme and managing Director for Sawtry Multitask IT Academy. He was a pioneer of the Microsoft Anytime Anywhere Learning programme and has continued this work through the Microsoft Partners in Learning programme. The IT Academy has enabled 14-19 year old students alongside adults to complete accredited courses offered by Microsoft and Adobe. His current research areas include schools having professional development areas for school based research up to masters level in partnership with higher education, coaching, digital literacy for all and the impact of new technology and learning platforms for students, staff and parents.
Dr David Zyngier is a senior lecturer in curriculum and pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, in Victoria, Australia. He was formerly a school principal at The King David School and has taught in government secondary schools (Ballam Park Technical School, Jordanville Technical School and Ashwood Secondary College). His research focuses on teacher pedagogies that engage all students but, in particular, how these can improve outcomes for students from communities of disadvantage. He is co-director of the Global Doing Democracy Research Project, an international project examining perspectives and perceptions of democracy in education to develop a robust and critical democratic education and Director of E-LINCs (Enhanced Learning through Networked Communities) which was awarded a Schools First Prize in 2010.
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