Description
Pre-requisite: Completed an AISWA Brightpath: Next Steps. Leading Innovative Teaching course
This is an opportunity to share how Brightpath: Next Steps is working for you and your school. Bring along all your great ideas.
Please join us for an informal networking session at AISWA and hear how others have been using the resources. We are also launching our fourth case study from Kukerin Primary School!
Light refreshments will be provided.
Presenters
Ron Gorman (AISWA Staff)
Deputy Director
Ron is Deputy Director of AISWA. He has extensive experience in teaching and leading a diversity of schools in WA and Victoria. Ron manages innovative programmes and university partnerships for AISWA. He is a member of the Global Educators Leaders Partnership and has been awarded Fellow of Australian Council of Educational Leadership (WA). Ron is also past-Chair of the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation, advocating for Australian authors and illustrators and working closely with the Australian Children’s Laureate.
Kerry Handley (AISWA Staff)
Literacy Consultant
Kerry Handley is a Literacy Consultant with many years of experience. She has worked in the WA education system as a classroom teacher, K-7 district coordinator and a consultant. Before joining AISWA, in 2012, Kerry was part of the team that reconceptualised and wrote the First Steps 2nd Edition resource and associated professional development. In this role she presented to educators around the world and spent four years living in the USA. She is one of the presenters of the Sharp Reading program and has a particular interest in assisting teachers in remote aboriginal schools.
Kerry has a Masters of Education, a Graduate Diploma in Intercultural Studies and a Diploma of Teaching. She is passionate about helping improve literacy outcomes for all students.
Penny McLoughlin
Penny loves reading and is passionate about using literature to enrich children’s lives. She has had the privilege of working in a variety of roles as an educator and consultant in Western Australian schools and institutions. She is currently an Associate Principal working part-time in a secondary school. Penny’s extensive experience in curriculum development for English and Literature; her teaching; her work with teachers and school improvement; her love of reading and her experience as a Literacy consultant has informed the production of the Brightpath Next Steps materials.
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Segments
Event Segment
Date / Time
27 Mar 2023 Starts: 16:00 Finishes: 18:00Delivery Format : In Person
AISWA Training Room Suite 1
AddressSuite 1, 41 Walters Drive
Osborne Park WA 6017
Australia