AISNSW Curriculum Leaders Conference 2023

Energising Collective Action

Catherine Misson is an educator with over 30 years’ experience. With a wealth of executive and sector-based experience, Catherine’s expertise spans strategy, culture, leadership and team development, organisational design, and governance. As Principal at Melbourne Girls Grammar, Catherine’s leadership of vision, staff and programs resulted in a transformational design of schooling. Catherine’s appointment as Principal at Havergal College, in Toronto, Canada provided her with the opportunity to establish HC-X as an innovation hub to pioneer curriculum that integrated academic and wellbeing outcomes.

Leading for Impact

Dr Timothy O’Leary, Melbourne Graduate School for Education, University of Melbourne is a researcher, lecturer, coach, and educator with more than twenty years of experience. Timothy’s interests are multifaceted and are focused on the effective use of data, in its various forms, to improve educational practice from systems to schools to classrooms. This includes using data to: differentiate teaching and learning, understand impact, identify areas for improvement, and monitor the implementation of initiatives and practices.

Finding the Joy in Curriculum Reform

Professor Amanda Datnow is the Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in the Department of Education Studies and Associate Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on educational reform and policy, with a particular interest in issues of equity and the professional lives of educators. 

She is deeply committed to impacting policy and practice and works with a variety of local, national, and international organisations to realise this goal. 

New Metrics: Acknowledging Student Success

Enterprise Professor Sandra Milligan is Director of the Assessment Research Centre at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. Sandra is a former Director of Curriculum in an Australian state education department and has held senior research, management and governance positions. 

Sandra’s current research interests focus on assessment, recognition and warranting of hard-to-assess learning. She directs several research partnerships with school networks and organisations working to develop Learner Profiles for their students.