Archive for the ‘Geelong Conference’ Category

Young Australian of the Year – Khoa Do

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

The opening keynote speaker of the conference was Khoa Do a young film maker who left Vietnam as a two year old with his parents on a fishing boat to seek a better life. His messages were simple yet powerful- life has lots of opportunities and in realising these you ...

No cup of tea leadership here please!

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Last week at the regional principal conference I was fortunate enough to introduce one of our key note speakers, Vivane Robinson a professor from the University of Auckland. Vivane gave an insightful presentation on school leadership and student outcomes, what works and why. I was fortunate to hear Vivane in Sydney last ...

Personalising learning at Bellaire Pimary School

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Whilst attending the principal conference at Geelong this week my assistant principal and I visited Bellaire Primary School in Geelong. The picture is from the senior unit which has been remodelled so that no teacher teaches in isolation. The unit has 5 teachers for 120 students. There were several unique features which ...