Authors & Presenters

Steve Boyle is a training associate with Hawker Brownlow Education. He works with leadership teams, whole-school communities and individual professional learning teams. Steve comes from a strong background in educational leadership at both an individual school and a systems level.

Focus areas: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Schools Certification.

Julie Canham is the principal of Woodridge State School in Queensland. Over the past 20 years, she has served as a teacher, literacy coach, regional school improvement officer, deputy principal and principal.

Focus areas: Response to Intervention, Professional Learning Communities, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools.

Joanne Casey is an educator with 30 years of experience working across three sectors) of education (Catholic, Independent and Government). She is a teacher of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary contexts and is an experienced presenter with a passion teaching and learning.

Focus areas: New Art and Science of Teaching, High Reliability Schools, Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum, Academic Vocabulary

Janelle has been Deputy Principal at Helensvale State High School for the last five years. Her current portfolio focuses on Professional Learning, an area in which she is deeply passionate about.

Focus areas: Response to Intervention, Professional Learning Communities, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools

Selena Fisk, EdD, has 15 years teaching experience in both state and private schools in Queensland, Australia, and in comprehensive schools in South London, England.

Focus areas: Data

With experience as a teacher, assistant principal and educational coach, Gavin Grift's passion, commitment and style have made him an in-demand presenter of keynotes, seminars and in-school support days. 

Focus areas: Professional Learning Communities, Cognitive Coaching, Teachers as Architects of Learning, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools, Collaborative Teams That Work, Transformative Collaboration

Kath Herbert has been a professional educator since 1975. She has experience in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary sectors of education in diverse settings and has managed projects and research in community development.

Focus areas: Bridges Out of Poverty, Framework for Understanding Poverty.

Sonya Mackenzie has spent over 20 years working in the field of education. Her professional work during the past 12 years has largely focused on building leadership and individual staff capacity with an explicit focus on self-directedness across various organisational levels.

Focus areas: Cognitive Coaching, Professional Learning Communities.

Janelle is a global educator with over 25 years’ experience in public and private schools in Australia, Ireland and the US. As a teacher, leader, consultant and lecturer, Janelle understands the demands of a changing educational landscape for teachers and leaders.

Focus areas: Differentiation, Understanding by Design, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools, Teachers as Architects of Learning.

Steve Meade is the executive director of curriculum and assessment at Singapore American School. He has been a teacher and administrator for over 29 years, with educational experience across elementary, middle, and high schools.

Focus areas: Professional Learning Communities.

Annette Moes is both a Training Associate at Hawker Brownlow Education and an experienced educator with extensive classroom teaching and leadership roles in schools and corporate areas within Australia.

Focus area: A Framework for Understanding Poverty

Glen Pearsall was a teacher at Eltham High School and a board member of the Curriculum Assessment Authority in Victoria, Australia. He is the author of the best-selling And Gladly Teach, Classroom Dynamics, and The Literature Toolbox and coauthor of Literature for Life and Work Right.

Focus areas: Assessment, Literacy.