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Mark
Hadlow will be our Master of Ceremonies
People don't always recognise the name - Mark Hadlow, but just about
everyone remembers something they have seen him in, and being such an
accomplished actor Mark makes an outstanding MC.
He has appeared in numerous New Zealand stage shows, including Jesus
Chris Superstar, The Rocky Horror Show, The Sex Fiend and Rush, which
world-premiered in Dunedin in 1998. His one-man stage show Sensitive
New Age Guy (SNAG) was an outstanding success, both in New Zealand and
at the Edinburgh Festival.
Mark’s talents were recognised by his peers when he was named
Entertainer of the Year at the 1996 Music and Entertainment Awards.
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Jonar
Nader
Having
worked in the fields of sales and marketing for over 25 years,
Jonar’s career included five years each at IBM, Compaq, and Acer.
He was the co-founder of both the Australian Information Technology
Society and the Leadership Foundation.
Jonar is now the Chairman of the consulting firm, Logictivity, and CEO
of Plutonium — a media and publishing organisation. His books
include How to Lose Friends and Infuriate Your Boss, How to Lose
Friends and Infuriate People, and How to Lose Friends and Infuriate
Thinkers. Jonar is also the author of Prentice Hall’s Illustrated
Dictionary of Computing, and he is the technology writer for
Butterworths’ Legal Dictionary, and the Student’s Legal
Dictionary.
Jonar’s suspense thriller is called ‘Z’; about which
the former Chief of the Australian Defense Force, Admiral Chris Barrie,
said, ‘Hang on to your seats, and open your eyes. I promise you
that Jonar’s credible yet very frightening novel is compulsive
reading. It will make you think deeply about where today’s human
race is headed.’
Jonar advises many chairmen and CEOs at board-level. His clients
include some of the region’s most senior executives. In addition
to his consulting and writing career, Jonar is a journalist, lecturer,
broadcaster, and a Digital-Age Philosopher who has a habit of
re-arranging people’s molecules with his captivating lectures.
You can learn more about his work at LoseFriends.com
General Peter Cosgrove AC MC, said, ‘Jonar is a wonderfully
restless spirit. He has an unquenchable zest for life and for people
that is infectious and irrepressible. He has a warm inclusive approach
to leadership and team building. He is one of the most persuasive
modern workers on leadership I have encountered.’
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Dr Stuart Middleton
PhD MA AIEd(Lond) Dip Ed DipSLT DipTchng
Executive
Director External Relations and Student Affairs
Manukau
Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Dr
Stuart
Middleton has a background in English teaching specialising in the
teaching of English in linguistically diverse communities. He
taught at the Auckland College of Education where he taught secondary
teacher education courses in English and Education. He has
worked
as a consultant in a variety of countries throughout the Pacific and
has contributed to policy development in Great Britain. After
a
period as Principal of Aorere College, a large multicultural secondary
school in Manukau City, he returned to the Auckland College of
Education as Director of Secondary Teacher Education. After a
period of time as General Manager Academic Services he took up his
current position of Executive Director External Relations and Student
Affairs at the Manukau Institute of Technology. In that
position
he has responsibility for International Education, Marketing, External
Relations, Information Technology Services, Education and Business
Liaison and Information, Student Services and Learning Support.
His research interests are in leadership generally and educational
leadership in particular. Related to this is his interest in
organisations, the way they change, and the ways in which they are
governed and managed. His PhD study was on the Dynamics of
Transformational Change. He writes and speaks widely on these
areas.
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Annette
Milligan
Independent
Nursing Practice,
Nelson
Annette
was raised on a large Southland sheep farm – number 5, in a
family of 7 children. Trained as a secondary school teacher and a
nurse, she has combined those roles in several businesses founded since
1989. These include a sexual health clinic, occupational health
practice and a multi-media company producing health education CD ROMs.
She is
passionate about communicating health information which people can
easily apply in their daily lives. Her aim is to reduce the sapping
effects of stress and maximize individual potential – after
all,
how many lives do we get? Annette understands the pressures of
twenty-first century life, and practices the strategies she has tested
and found successful. Her sessions are pragmatic, lively and most of
all, fun!
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Allan Peachey MP
Allan
Peachey is one of New Zealand’s better known
educators.
After 16 years as a classroom teacher at Hutt Valley High School and
then at Naenae College, he was briefly Deputy Principal at Colenso High
School, Napier, before assuming the principalship of that school in
1990. In 1993 he was appointed to head Rangitoto
College, a
position he held until September 2005. During that time the
College roll increased in size from 1650 to 3100 pupils, and Allan was
responsible for building the infrastructure and culture necessary for a
school of that size. He was a very strong supporter of the
bulk
funding for schools movement. Rangitoto College is today New
Zealand’s largest secondary school and respected
internationally
for its academic performance and as one of the country’s
great
sporting and cultural schools.
Allan is the author of
“What’s up with
our schools? A New Zealand principal speaks out”, published
in
early 2005. He is also a contributing author to
“School Leadership”, a book published in the United
Kingdom
in 2001, and has written extensively for educational and other
journals, both in New Zealand and overseas. From 1998
–
2000 Allan served as President of the Secondary Principals’
Association. In 2000 he was a Woolf Fisher
Fellow.
Allan has travelled extensively internationally to study and speak on
schooling systems.
In September 2005 he was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the
Member for the Tamaki Electorate.
Allan has a reputation for being blunt and outspoken on schooling
issues. His bottomline is that principals and
teachers must
first and foremost be advocates for children and their learning.
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Peggy
Fairbairn-Dunlop
Associate
Professor and Inaugural Director, Va'aomanu Pasifika, Pacific and
Samoan Studies,
Victoria
University of Wellington.
Dr. Peggy Fairbairn Dunlop has been teaching and researching Pacific
development issues for the past 30 years and returned to New Zealand in
February 2006 to take up the post as Inaugural Director of the Vaaomanu
Pasifika (Pacific and Samoan Studies) at Victoria University of
Wellington.
Peggy is primary teacher trained and has extensive teaching experience
from preschool through primary to tertiary level and adult education.
This includes around five years in Porirua in the 60s/ 70s and teaching
in what were then called Maori schools at Te Teko and the Te Reinga 2
teacher school.
Peggy was a lecturer in Professional Studies at Wellington
Teachers’ College, and returned to Samoa with her five
daughters
when her husband Jim was appointed Head of English at Avele College in
1980. In Samoa, Peggy was Lecturer in Agriculture Education
and
Extension at the University of the South Pacific, Alafua Campus and was
also USP Director of Continuing Education for 2 years and completed her
Ph. D through Macquarie University.
She continued her research and teaching links with New Zealand and the
Pacific during this time and has been a member of the Education PBRF
panels for the two rounds. Her major research has been in
gender
and youth related issues and parenting education for changing times.
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Lester
Flockton
Lester Flockton
is a graduate of Dunedin Teachers College and the University of Otago.
He has extensive experience in New Zealand’s school system as
a
teacher, principal, inspector of schools, Ministry of Education
official, researcher, university teacher, educational thinker and
leader.
Throughout his career in education he has worked on many national
curriculum committees and projects, led numerous professional
development programmes, made dozens of conference presentations, and
held office in various professional organizations
He is one of the directors and prime developers of New
Zealand’s
National Education Monitoring Project which is widely recognised
nationally and internationally.
Lester maintains a wide-ranging interest and involvement in matters
impacting on teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment, and the
leadership, governance and management of schools.
He
examines the claims of research, policy and practice with a critical
mind.
Lester is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-director of the Educational
Assessment Research Unit at the University of Otago.
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Dr.
Jane
Gilbert
Dr.
Jane Gilbert is Chief Researcher with New Zealand Council for
Educational Research. She was previously (1995-2003) a Senior Lecturer
in the School
of Education
at Victoria University of Wellington, where she was involved in
research and teaching - mainly in the areas of educational
philosophy/sociology and science/technology education. She has also
taught on the Wellington College of Education pre-service and Masters
level Teacher Education programmes, and worked for three years in the
School of Education at the University Waikato.
Before that she was a secondary school teacher (Science and
Biology) for ten years at two Wellington
schools.
Her book Catching the
Knowledge Wave: The Knowledge Society and the Future of Education was
published in 2005 (by NZCER Press).
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Hon. Steve Maharey
Steve Maharey has been New Zealand's Labour Member of Parliament for Palmerston North since 1990.
He is currently
Minister of Education, Minister of Broadcasting, Minister of Research,
Science and Technology, Minister for Crown Research Institutes and
Minister responsible for the Education Review Office.
He has previously held
portfolios covering Social Development and Employment, Housing,
Tertiary Education, Youth Affairs and Community and Voluntary
Sector. In Opposition (1990-1999) Steve was variously the
spokesperson for social welfare, employment, tertiary education,
broadcasting, communications and labour relations. He was a
member of the Palmerston North City Council between 1986 and 1989.
Steve has a B.A. and an
M.A. (Hons) in sociology. He was a senior lecturer in sociology
at Massey University before entering Parliament. He has published
widely in his specialist areas of interest: media and cultural studies
and social change.
Road cycling, music, social and political theory, travel and spectator sports among Steve's interests.
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Michael
Durrant
Michael Durrant is a registered psychologist in Sydney, Director of the
Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney and has previously held teaching
positions at the University of Western Sydney, University of Sydney and
Macquarie University. He is a psychologist with an international
reputation in the Solution-focused approach to counseling and to
organisations. He has consulted and trained in applications of
strengths-based ideas in schools and is author of Creative strategies
for school problems: Solutions of psychologists and teachers (published
by W. W. Norton, New York, in 1995 and since translated into French,
Dutch and Japanese).
Michael has conducted in-service training for school staff at a number
of high schools in New South Wales and the ACT, consulted to a
high school in Sydney's western suburbs in the development of a
"strengths-based" discipline policy, has conducted "staff development"
training for groups of school personnel, and was the keynote speaker at
the New Zealand RTLB conference in 2004.
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Martin Henry
First degree University College London majoring in English 1990
Dip Tch Auckland College of Education 1994
M Litt Fooling with Culture: Cool fools, subcultural consumption and the question of personal identity 2002
Martin has presented keynotes at various conferences, centered around
boys and education, focused particularly on the desire not to
problematise boys, but to explore questions around boys interaction
with education from the perspective of male identities.
Martin has held numerous roles within the PPTA including Auckland
Regional Chair 2004-2005 and advocacy roles within the NUT in Leeds
2002-2004.
Roles within the Ministry of Education have included working in
secondary education where Martin managed a major piece of research into
the impact of the NCEA on student motivation. Martin's current role is
team leader professional learning which is focused on the professional
learning infra-structure. Within the team sits the School Support
Services contracts, Te Tere Auraki (te Kauhau, te Kotathitanga te
Hiringa i te mahara and te Mana) as well as Te Reo Maori in English
medium.
Martin is currently involved in partnership with BES programme around
the Best Evidence Synthesis for Professional Learning. Martin's
research interests include educational philosophy and the impact of
sub-cultures on education.
Martin is interested in helping create an atmosphere of professionalism
that works in partnership with teachers to provide better educational
experiences for a diverse range of students, boys, girls, Maori,
Pasifika and based on a deep respect for personal identity
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Jude Moxon
Jude Moxon is an RTLB
based at Massey High School, a large multi-cultural high school in West
Auckland, and heavily involved in the restorative practices programme
there. She has extensive experiences facilitating community
conferences, classroom conferences and developing a system for managing
disruptive behaviour in the classroom.
She completed her
Masters thesis researching that programme 'The Restorative Thinking
Programme' and co-authored a book entitled 'Restorative Solutions for
Schools -An introductory resource book'.
Restorative practices
involve a philosophy and set of values for support and behaviour
management in schools. In contrast to a traditional punitive approach,
restorative practices value relationships over rules. They seek to
engage people in restoring relationships damaged by conflict and
harming events.
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Dr. Jan D'Arcy and Lynn Healy
Dr. Jan D'Arcy (Ed D, M Ed, B Ed, Grad Dip Teacher-Librarianship, Dip Teaching, MACE, AIMM)
Accredited facilitator: Myers Briggs Type Indicator; LifeStyles Inventory (LSI 360 ° Feedback); Leadership Toolkit Programs
Professional Appointments:
Board Member Moreton Institute of TAFE (Minister for Education and Training nominee), 2003-2004
Queensland School Curriculum Committee (QSCC) (Director-General Queensland Department of Education nominee), 1998-2000
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Lynn Healy (M Ed Studies, Dip Ed, B Arts, MACE, AIMM)
Accredited Facilitator: Myers Briggs Type Indicator; Leadership Toolkit Programs
Jan and Lynn have worked together for 10 years, co-facilitating many
leadership programs and workshops. Much of their recent professional
work has been related to leading cultural change, supervision and
coaching of school leaders, monitoring school performance, and
facilitating individual performance reviews.
Jan and Lynn are very experienced educational practitioners, who also
have strong theoretical knowledge. They are skilled leadership coaches
and facilitators of professional learning. Their interests include
supporting individual and group learning to ensure theory or new
concepts are translated into changes in practice. During the past 5
years they have designed and facilitated seventeen 3-day experiential
leadership programs for school leaders and managers, and many tailored
needs-based workshops.
They have written and presented professional papers at a number of
Conferences, relating leadership theory to educational leadership and
change. Jan and Lynn have recently written a Masters course,
“Professional Learning”, and are teaching Masters Courses
at the University of Southern Queensland.
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Pip Woodward
Pip is currently the National Co-ordinator for the Ministry of
Education funded contract on ‘Whole School Approach to Student
Wellbeing- Mental Health Education’. She has been involved
in the education sector for 22 years, in both secondary and primary
settings. The last six years she has been with University of
Auckland, Faculty of Education leading this professional development
contract.
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Adrienne Alton-Lee
Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) Programme
Chief Education Adviser
Strategy and System Performance
Ministry of Education
Dr
Adrienne Alton-Lee is the Chief Education Adviser for the New Zealand
Ministry of Education’s Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES)
Programme. Her role is to strengthen the evidence-base informing policy
and practice in education and to provide medium term strategic advice
to government. Dr Alton-Lee is a Fellow of the International Academy of
Education.
She was formerly a teacher, classroom researcher, Professor of Teacher
Education and an Associate Editor of Teaching and Teacher Education.
She collaborated with Graham Nuthall on a series of replications of her
doctoral study tracing and explaining student long-term learning from
their experiences in classrooms She has published in a range of leading
educational journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the
Elementary School Journal, the International Journal of Inclusive
Education and the American Educational Research Journal. Her work has
been reviewed in recent editions of the Handbook for Research on
Teaching and the Handbook of Research on Classroom Management:
Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues.
She is author of the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s Quality
teaching for diverse students in schooling: Best evidence synthesis
iteration
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Lawrie Stewart
Senior Adviser - young people
SPARC
M. Ed, Dip PE, Dip Rec & Sport, Dip Tchng, PG Dip Information Management
Lawrie's current role has oversight of SPARC’s Active Movement,
Active Schools, and Sportfit intervention. Previous roles have
includes 14 years secondary teaching, university lecturing, and project
management of online resources (TKI). Lawrie has had involvement in the
development and implementation of national curriculum and qualification
for health and physical education.
Sports coaching and administration roles have included swimming,
cricket, soccer, and currently sailing. Current recreational interests
include tramping, sailing, and surfing.
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Denise Atkins
Denise Atkins has had over twenty years experience as an
educator. She trained as a Health and Physical Education teacher,
working to middle management level in secondary schools in New
Zealand. Denise has been involved in curriculum design and
teacher professional development across a range of areas, and more
recently in contract management. She is currently working for the
Ministry of Education as a project manager for the physical activity
initiative and as a senior adviser in health and physical
education. Denise has completed a post graduate Masters degree
and continues to lead an active life, participating in sport, coaching
and “running around” after her family.
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Rōpata Taylor
Rōpata is Project Manager of Wakatu Incorporation with a focus on
Tourism, Wine and Seafood. He was formerly a Secondary School teacher
at Nelson College and is a graduate of the University of Otago.
He is the Chair of the Nelson/Marlborough Conservation Board and is on
the board of the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve. Rōpata is a Trustee of
the Ngāti Rārua Ātiawa Iwi Trust, Te Āwhina Marae and Nelson Economic
Development Agency. He has been involved in resource management,
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