 Neville Highett
President of ACEL
Neville is a freelance consultant with expertise in school effectiveness, school leadership, and school review and school accountability. He has had the unique experience of working for the government school sector at senior executive level in three states (Queensland – Senior Review Officer; New South Wales – Director of Program Evaluation; South Australia - as Director Planning and Accountability and as Executive Director of Schools) plus the experience of being a principal of large independent coeducational day and boarding school.
He is currently working in Papua New Guinea restructuring the accountability processes for the 1000 schools in a diverse and beautiful country.
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 Kevin Richardson
Kevin Richardson is currently Principal of Immanuel College at Novar Gardens, a position he has held for seven years.
Kevin established the internationally acclaimed Technology School of the Future. Kevin has held senior executive positions in WA, NSW and South Australia and had systemic responsibility in marketing, legal, IT and accountability.
Kevin has been a leader nation-wide with respect to changes in teaching and learning, particularly in the area of technology. He is highly regarded for his work on futures oriented thinking and the implications for leaders.
As a result, Kevin has been a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences, including being an inaugural speaker at the first International Principals’ Conference in Geneva. He is a member and chairs several national education committees, and has been invited to participate in several global “think tanks” on education.
Kevin was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for significant contribution to Education, in particular in the field of technology. He was also an “Apple Distinguished Educator”. In 2004 he was a National finalist in the Year of the Built Environs – “Imagining the Future” Award.
Kevin currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Australian Council on Children and the Media.
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 Dr Jan Robertson
Jan’s teaching and research has focused particularly on learning relationships through coaching leadership, and through the “Boundary breaking leadership development” model, developed over a decade in collaborative research with the University of Calgary, designed to grow the leaders of tomorrow. Jan believes it is her role as a leadership educator, to “… challenge, provoke, affirm, present ideas, and seek commitment to thinking about change and innovation in places of learning, for meeting the needs of tomorrow’s leaders.”
Jan has recently returned to New Zealand after completing her Directorship at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute of Education, London University. She is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal for Educational Change, Journal of Mentoring and Tutoring, and the Journal of Evidence-based Mentoring and Coaching.
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 Bruce Dixon
From a background as an educator, educational software developer, business and social entrepreneur, and strategic consultant, Bruce’s work throughout the late 80’s and 90’s pioneered the development of 1-to-1 initiatives across Australia, North America, Canada and the UK, and lead to the establishment of the not-for-profit Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation.
In 1997 Bruce received a unique award from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC for his work world-wide pioneering ubiquitous student access to technology, and in 2006 was named as one of “20 People to Watch”” by the National School Boards Association of America. Bruce’s advice is sought by corporate, educational and political leaders, and he regularly speaks at national and international conferences around the world.
He is a Fellow of the global consulting group Education Impact, and has recently also taken up the position as the Founding Director of ideasLAB in Victoria, to initiate significant projects that better explore the dimensions of what technology might make possible for learning.
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 Professor Russell Bishop
Professor Russell Bishop is foundation Professor for Maori Education in the School of Education at the University
of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Prior to his present appointment he was Interim Director for Otago University’s Teacher Education programme.
His research experience is in the area of collaborative storying as Kaupapa Maori research, having written a book “Collaborative Research Stories: Whakawhanaungatanga” and published nationally and internationally on this topic. His other research interests include Collaborative Storying as Pedagogy and Culturally Responsive Pedagogies. The latter area is the subject of a book, co-authored with Professor Ted Glynn, published in 1999. This book “Culture Counts: Changing Power Relationships in Classrooms”, demonstrates how the experiences developed from within kaupapa Maori settings; schooling, research and policy development, can be applied to mainstream educational settings. A further book, “Pathologising Practices: The impact of deficit thinking on education”, co-authored with Carolyn Shields and Andre Mazawi, and published by Peter Lang, investigates how deficit thinking pathologies the lived experiences of children and prevents minoritized children from achieving their full potential in schools. His most recent book, with Mere Berryman, “Culture Speaks”, examines the experiences of Maori students, their families, their principals and their teachers with the schooling of Maori students.
He is currently the project director for Te Kotahitanga, a large New Zealand Ministry of Education funded research / professional development project that seeks to improve the educational achievement of Maori students in mainstream classrooms through the implementation of a culturally responsive pedagogy of relations.
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 Professor Cher Ping Lim
Professor Cher Ping LIM is the Director of the Outcome-based Learning Unit at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has been the chief investigator of several major research projects that include:
- Effective Integration of IT in Singapore Schools: Pedagogical and Policy Implications,
- Supporting E-discussions and e-sharing with New Technologies in Learning Communities,
- Learning Objects and Cultural Settings, Digital Curricular Literacies,
- 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments in Schools,
- Improving the Quality and Quantity of Teachers in the Asia-Pacific and
- Using Digital Representations of Work for Authentic and Reliable Performance Assessment in Senior Secondary School courses.
He has also provided technical consultancy services (ICT in education and teacher education) to UNESCO, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, World Links, Microsoft, universities, schools and the Government of Barbados, Indonesia and Oman. |
Mark TreadwellMark Treadwell is an internationally renowned speaker who has consistently predicted many of the education trends that school systems are experiencing now. His research over the past four years on how the brain learns has resulted in the realisation that the brain harbours three learning systems, two of which are extraordinarily efficient and one which is surprisingly inefficient. How these three systems integrate to allow us to learn provides us a framework for designing new curriculum and developing teaching and learning practices to maximise the potential of the learner and their learning within the rich information and communication environments all learners now have access to.
Mark travels widely speaking at international conferences in Europe, South America, Australasia, and Asia over the last two years and is renowned for his humour, passionate style and depth of knowledge across all aspects of teaching and learning. His notes and resources are available online at http://www.i-learnt.com |
