The Australian team to Canada

The team includes Chris Bonnor is a former secondary school principal, past head of NSW Principals’ Council and an author, Andy Mison, President of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association, Tom Greenwell, teacher and author and Lindsay Luck, a Catholic school principal.

Other team members are:

Caroline David is the Principal of Woonona High School, a regional public comprehensive high school with 850 students and Vice President of the NSW South Coast Secondary Principal’s Council, and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney in how Australian education policy architecture is entrenching inequality.

Sue French is a founding member of Big Picture Education Australia. She is currently Principal in Residence for the NSW Department She was principal at Kaleen High School (ACT) and St Johns Park High School (NSW).

Dr Suzanne Lazenby is a former elementary school principal and university lecturer in Australia. Her recent research resulting in the concept of Collective Principal Efficacy (CPE), has been published and presented internationally. She is currently a Director of Leading Educators Around the Planet.

Denise Loft is currently President NSW Secondary Principals Council 24-26 and        Principal of Ulladulla High School

Dr Warren Marks is a former senior school principal. He has a breadth of experience in researching, designing, managing and implementing educational leadership programs and has presented at national and international conferences and published on a range of topics. Warren initiated and is the current co-Director of Leading Educators Around the Planet.

Michael Sciffer is a Vice President of the NSW Teachers Federation, a school counsellor and PhD candidate. His research interests include the drivers and outcomes of the segregation of low SES and Indigenous students, school compositional effects, and the impacts of social contexts on school effectiveness.

Penny Underwood is a journalist and strategic communicator. She works with Australian Learning Lecture which last year commissioned Choice and Fairness: a common framework for all Australian schools. That report frames the basis for the study tour of leading Australian educators to Canada.

Jenny Walker has been an educator for more than 42 years with the NSW Department of Education, the last 29 years as a principal. She has been Director of Education (Schools), Director of Aboriginal Education.

Photo: Chris Bonnor, Tom Greenwell, ALL founder Ellen Koshland, Penny Underwood have a pre-briefing with Charles Ungerleider, Professor Emeritus at UBC and former Deputy Minister of Education for British Columbia.