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

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

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.

Colin Sloper has been a teacher, assistant principal and principal in government schools for the past 35 years. In the course of his career he has been involved in the establishment of five new state government schools, including his time as principal of Pakenham Springs Primary School in Victoria.

Focus areas: Professional Learning Communities, Transformative Collaboration, Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools, Collaborative Teams That Work.