Presenter Profiles

Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe.   She is widely respected for her work in the field of inquiry based learning and integrative curriculum in which she has researched and published for over 20 years.

Kath is passionate about planning and teaching using inquiry based, integrated curriculum with a particular interest in supporting teachers in their professional learning journeys. She regularly  teaches in primary classes so the examples she shares are real and recent.  She also specialises in supporting teams of teachers to work and plan together and to build professional learning into their daily practice.

Kath is known for her dynamic, practical and interactive sessions and for challenging teachers to think about what, why and how they support students in their learning. 

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Dr Christine Richmond is a highly sought after and dynamic speaker in the field of behaviour management.  She is an experienced teacher of students with severe behaviour challenges in clinical and school settings and has also worked as a senior school counselor, family therapist and academic.

Dr Richmond has become well known in Australian education circles through her work in schools and as a speaker at regional, state, national and international conferences. She was the traveling scholar for the NSW Chapter of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders during 2003, and was appointed as the national traveling scholar for 2007. Christine held academic positions at both the University of New England and Bond University before branching out into private practice. Her book, Teach More, Manage Less: A Minimalist Approach to Behaviour Management  was proudly published by Scholastic Australia in 2007.

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A teacher by profession, Bill Rogers now lectures widely on discipline and behaviour management issues, classroom management, stress and teaching as well as colleague support.

Bill has worked with teachers across Australasia, New Zealand and Europe for the past 20 years. His work is well known in Australia, especially his commitment to a skills-based approach to discipline and maintenance of positive behaviours.

Bill is the author of numerous resources including books and DVD support programs published both in Australia and the UK.

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Tony Stead is a highly sought-after international speaker and consultant in the area of literacy education. His energetic and powerful presentations are known for making a profound impact on educators around the world.

Tony has 14 years experience in teaching Grades Prep to 6 and has also lectured in Language and Literacy at Melbourne University. Tony lived in New York City for eight years where he worked with school districts across North America and Canada leading workshops, conducting classroom demonstrations, and giving keynote addresses.

Tony is an author of many publications including Is That a Fact?: Teaching Nonfiction Writing and the video series Time For Nonfiction. which highlights his recent work with several teachers at the Manhattan New School. Tony regularly works with kids in the classroom and his greatest love is learning from children.

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David Hornsby taught in schools in Victoria for 28 years at every year level from Prep to Year 6. He was an education department curriculum consultant in primary and secondary schools for 4 years before returning to the primary classroom. He served as Principal of Ringwood Heights Primary School for 5 years.

David lectured in teacher education at La Trobe University for many years and is now working as a private education consultant. He is invited to work with teachers and to present at conferences both interstate and overseas. In addition to completing many lecture tours of the USA and the UK, he has worked with teachers in Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Indonesia, New Zealand and Singapore.

David has written and co-authored many books on the teaching of literacy.

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Kristy is a primary school teacher currently completing her PhD, studying the impact and affordances of educational technology in the early years of formal schooling (K-2). With nine years of teaching experience in a range of school settings, Kristy has an avid interest in integrating technology into regular classroom practice and across the curriculum. She has explored the use of a diverse range of hardware and software applications with children in the primary years. In particular, Kristy has a particular interest in using interactive whiteboards in the classroom. She has presented at many conferences in Australia and overseas on effective integration of technology. Kristy has worked as an ICT integrator at an independent school, as an ICT consultant and at Macquarie University, lecturing in the use of technology.

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Loretta has worked as a teacher, consultant and school Principal in Queensland and London schools and has taught students at all levels with a range of disabilities including the profoundly deaf in segregated and integrated settings. She was the Director of Special Education and Equity Programs (Aboriginal Education, Migrant Education, ESL, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Schools) with the NSW Department of Education until April 1993. She has lectured at the UNSW were she established the Certificate of Learning Disabilities and the Certificate of Integration Studies. Since 1996 Loretta has headed her own educational consultancy company working extensively in Hong Kong, New Zealand, South Africa, Malta, Cyprus and the UK as well as Australia. Loretta works with government, NGOs, private agencies, teachers and parents as an advisor, keynote speaker, and planner.

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