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"As our world
becomes more complex and uncertain it is crucial for both individuals
and organisations to learn regularly and rigorously from their
work to enable them to adapt rapidly, capably and continuously
to their changing environments-giving them a much higher chance
of surviving and developing."
Bob Garratt, The Learning Organisation
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Key Contributors |
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Jan Robertson - Academic Consultant (formerly
Director of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the
Institute of Education) |
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Jan Robertson’s teaching and research focuses on professional
learning. In particular, her work in leadership coaching and
boundary breaking leadership development has highlighted the
importance of self-awareness and knowledge of others in leadership.
Developing deep learning relationships, throughout the education
community, is at the heart of effective educational leadership.
Jan believes it is her role as a leadership educator, to “...
challenge, provoke, affirm, present ideas, and seek commitment
to thinking about change and innovation in places of learning,
for meeting the needs of tomorrow’s leaders.”
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Her work
includes action research for education development and understanding
change in personal, professional and organizational development.
She brings more than 30 years experience to her work internationally,
having worked in countries such as New Zealand, Canada, Australia,
Chile, Lithuania, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and England. Previous
positions include school principal; Chairperson Professional Studies
Department, Director Educational Leadership Centre and Associate
Professor at the University of Waikato; and more recently the Director
of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute
of Education, where she is currently a Visiting Fellow.
Jan was a Fulbright scholar in 1992, travelling throughout the USA
studying leadership development in the education and business sectors.
She is committed to innovation in education and harnessing the potential
of Information Communication Technology to personalize learning
and transform learning spaces.
Her bestselling book is "Coaching educational leadership: Building
leadership capacity through partnership". (Available through Amazon
and NZCER)
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| Keynote:
Crossing boundaries |
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C21st students, teachers and parents creating dynamic, diverse
and generative ecological learning environments, together.
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we re-imagine the New Zealand school system as a learning ecology?
This keynote address challenges teachers and other leaders in positions
of responsibility to move beyond the boundaries of their current
niche to explore other geographies in the creation of new learning
communities. The concept of a learning ecology signifies that learning
is a living, interdependent process, where students and teachers
share responsibility for seeking, accessing, creating and organising
knowledge. Such learning ecologies encourage critical thinking,
problem solving, negotiation, creativity, personal integrity, collaborative
teamwork, responsibility and adaptability – all key skills
necessary for innovation in the C21st. |
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Dr Angus
Hikairo Macfarlane - Professor
of Maori Research, University of Canterbury
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Angus Hikairo Macfarlane is of the Te Arawa waka and its confederate
tribes. He is an experienced educator and practitioner and has
been an advisor and professional development provider for Special
Education Services and the Ministry of Education on a number
of national projects.
The thrust of his activities is concerned with the exploration
of cultural concepts and strategies that affect positively on
professional practice and leadership, from which numerous publications
have emanated.
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| In 2003
he was awarded the inaugural Research Fellowship by the New Zealand
Council for Educational Research, at which time he took up residency
in Wellington to carry out further work in his area of interest.
In 2004 his landmark book, Kia hiwa ra! Listen to culture - Maori
students' plea to educators, was published. That same year he was
a recipient of a Tohu Kairangi award, a citation for academic achievement
in Maori education. |
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book, Discipline, Democracy and Diversity, was published in August
2007. He has presented papers on culturally responsive educational
approaches in several countries, including Australia, Israel, Thailand,
Greece, Britain and the United States |
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| Topic:
The Cultural Context
of Leadership Development |
| How our world views,
relationships, values and beliefs influence our practice as education
leaders. |
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Hon Anne Tolley
- Minister of Education, Minister
Responsible for ERO
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Anne Tolley is MP for East Coast. Anne was first elected to
parliament on the National Party list in 1999, and was appointed
Spokesperson on Women's Affairs and Early Childhood. In 2005
she returned to parliament and was elected Junior Whip, and
given the Child, Youth and Family portfolio.
Anne remains passionate about securing a healthy and secure
environment for children, young people and families, and campaigns
strongly against family violence and child abuse.
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| In 2006
Anne was elected Senior Whip, the first woman to hold the position
in the National Party. In 2008 she took over the Education portfolio.
She was re-elected as MP for East Coast in the 2008 General Election,
with an increased majority, and was appointed Minister of Education,
Minister for Tertiary Education, and Minister Responsible for ERO.
Since January 2010, she has been Minister of Education and Minister
Responsible for ERO. Her main focus is on implementing the ground-breaking
National Standards policy into primary and intermediate schools.
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| Topic:
Education-The State of the Nation
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Hon Steve
Maharey - Vice Chancellor,
Massey University
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Steve
Maharey is the Vice-Chancellor of Massey University. Prior to
this he was the fourth ranked Minister in Government for nine
years holding a variety of positions including Minister of Education
and Minister of Research, Science and Technology.
Steve Maharey was responsible for the reforms of
the tertiary education sector that began in 2003 and oversaw the
establishment of the New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission.
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Prior to
entering Parliament he was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. Earlier
in his career he was a Junior Lecturer in Business Administration,
and a Lecturer in Sociology. His academic interests include social
policy, media, cultural studies, social change and politics. He
has served as an elected City Councillor.
He was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM)
in 2009. |
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| Topic:
The Entrepreneurial
University |
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do you positively engage the best capacities of your colleagues
to learn, adapt and create new knowledge in order to make a premium
contribution to the innovation system? |
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Eva-Maria Salikhova
- 21st Century Teenager,
Author and Coach
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Eva-Maria
is a nineteen
year old international speaker and certified coach who is living
her dream: to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between teenagers
and adults around the globe. She is the author of the world's
first parenting book written by a teenager; provocatively titled
"You Shut Up!" the book captured attention all
over New Zealand and beyond.
Eva-Maria is a graduate of Athena Montessori College in Wellington,
and is about to release sequel of her book "You
Shut Up!".
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| Her strength
as author and coach is that she is focussed on understanding both
sides to any story, helping to compromise and settle misunderstandings
that arise between individuals and generations. More
on YouTube |
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| Topic:
A 21st century Teenager's
Cyber World View |
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| Dr
Cheryl Doig - Director of Think Beyond |
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Dr Cheryl Doig has a passion for leadership and learning.
As Director of Think Beyond Ltd Cheryl works with organisations
to help them 'think for tomorrow'. She combines a past background
in education as a school principal, reviewer and teaching fellow
with experience on a range of boards, including the NZ Institute
of Management and Core Education.
Cheryl works with a range of organisations, including the Ministry
of Education NZ, the Australian Council for Educational Leaders
and Microsoft Australia.
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In 2009
Cheryl travelled to Cape Town, as part of the Rata Trust to work
in a school called The Ark - a school attached to a homeless shelter.
This voluntary service added to Cheryl's rich experience working
with diverse communities and needs.
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been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the
Beeby Award (NZCER and UNESCO) and the Woolf Fisher Fellowship.
She is an accredited member of the NZ Speakers' Association of New
Zealand, has published several books and regularly writes for magazines
throughout Australasia. Cheryl is a regular social networker and
uses technology to enhance her programmes. For more information
visit her website at www.thinkbeyond.co.nz |
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| Topic:
Adaptive leadership |
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capabilities for new times- We live in messy times. There are often
many solutions to a 'problem' and they all have consequences. Cheryl
will explore this complexity, combining ideas from adaptive leadership,
systems thinking, the ACEL leadership framework and use of information
communications technologies. |
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Trevor
McIntyre - Principal, Christchurch
Boys High School
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Having graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor
of Agricultural Science and Christchurch Teachers' College with
a Diploma in Teaching Trevor began his education career at Waimate
High School.
Being brought up on a sheep and cattle farm at Clinton, South
Otago, coupled with involvement in the early days of live deer
capture, took him back to mustering, farm managing and eventually
ownership of a sheep and deer unit in Northern Southland.
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The demise of Muldoon in 1984 and its associated interest rate
rise and agricultural price falls saw him return to teaching in
Queenstown, Waimate and then Timaru Boys' High School as Deputy
Principal. October 2003 saw the beginning of the Headmaster's
position at Christchurch Boys' High School. Over the years his
main extra curricular involvement has been Rugby from club to
National level.
Trevor currently sits on the University of Canterbury Council,
Young Designers Awards Trust and the CPIT Trades Innovation Institute
Advisory Board.
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Topic:
TBA
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Ed Bernacki-
Director of "The Idea Factory', Canada
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Canada-based Ed Bernacki is an international speaker,
writer and consultant on the use of innovation in organisations.
He developed and is a director of the
Idea Factory.
He is the author of "Wow! That's A Great Idea!"
- a guide for executives wanting to find more and bigger ideas
in their organisations. He also created the Conference Navigator
Guide - a tool kit for conferences and workshops and is the
author of over 70 articles on innovation including 25 for The
NBR and 15 for Venture.
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an Innovation Learning Partner for the Canadian Centre for Management
Development. Read Ed's regular column in Unlimited
Magazine. Ed regularly runs innovation workshops for organisations
around the world. During his career, he has built a reputation as
an authority on innovation within the public sector. He has developed
innovation guides and trained staff for both the Canadian Federal
Government and the Singaporean Government. He lived in New Zealand
from 1990 to 2000 and is an MBA Graduate from the University of
Otago. |
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| Topic:
Leading Thinking |
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makes innovative organizations innovative" "Idea flows" must
be managed like the way we manage "cash flows". We plan the flow
of cash in our learning organizations over a year or longer. How
can we use these insights to help us manage the flow of ideas we
need over a year to meet the challenges we face? |
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Chris Jansen-
Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury
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Chris Jansen lectures in Secondary Teacher Education
and supervises Educational Leadership students at the University
of Canterbury. He is currently undertaking a PhD project with
participants exploring their own leadership using a process called
Appreciative Inquiry.
He has been involved in leadership roles in a wide range of settings
including 6 years as Head of Physical Education at Mangere College
in Manukau, Auckland.
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an extensive range of training and facilitation experience both
in New Zealand and overseas and has worked as a counsellor with
the Department of Child Youth and Families "AIKI" programme
working with adolescent offenders and their families, and in substance
abuse treatment programmes in Atlanta, Georgia and Hong Kong. He
has an M.Ed. Counselling and is a registered teacher and member
of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. |
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| Topic:
- Leadership through a living systems lens and Systems thinking
in schools
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Gaye
Tyler-Merrick - President
of Kidsfirst Kindergarten
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Gaye has been involved in education for the past 20
years She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Education at Canterbury
University.
She works in the post-graduate area of special education. She
is also the President of Kidsfirst Kindergarten - a post she has
held for the past four years.
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Sherryll
Wilson - Chief Executive
of Canterbury Westland Kindergarten Association Inc.
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Sherryll has led Kidsfirst since 1995 and has steered
the organisation through some of the most challenging times that
the early childhood education has known, including the commercialisation
of the sector, the entry into the marketplace of corporate chains,
the levelling of the sector's playing field with the extension
of government funding and the pressures and demands being brought
to bear by a whole new generation of consumer-oriented parents.
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Topic: Cultivating
a community of leaders
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Chris Bryant
- Principal, Brooklyn Primary School,
Wellington
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Chris Bryant, principal of Brooklyn Primary School,
Wellington, is passionate about learning, systems thinking and
leadership. Brooklyn School has 440 children aged 5 - 12 years
and Chris has been Principal there for 8 of his 17 years as a
school leader. During these 8 years he has lead his school to
be a well recognised learning community, especially in the areas
of curriculum integration and delivery, mandarin language development
and the use of ICTs to support learning.
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development and school cluster initiatives. The most recent has
been SWELL, where Chris has been leader of a network of 11 learning
communities (primary schools) focused on reducing disparity and
raising student achievement both within and across the schools.
Visit www.swell.org.nz Having just completed a post graduate diploma
in Business Administration, Chris is now applying his skills and
knowledge of system thinking, coaching and mentoring to develop
leadership capacity and learning communities, both within his school
and across the sector. |
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| Topic:
Learning Networks - Networks by Chance or by Design
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Terry Williams
- The Influence Expert
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Terry is a sought-after speaker and MC with a managerial
background who shows international audiences simple but dramatically
effective techniques to influence staff, customers, family and
other important people in their lives
Author of ‘THE GUIDE: How to kiss, get a job and other stuff you
need to know’, that book has been acclaimed as a platform for
people to reach the young people in their lives.
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He's gained skills as a comedian
that he's found beneficial in the real world outside comedy. These
include communication skills, rapport building, self-confidence
and quick thinking. Now he's helping people in business learn from
his serious comedy experiences without even having to get on stage.
Terry speaks to corporate groups about what he has learnt as a comedian
that can create value and change in the workplace.
Terry's style is interactive, with the use of entertainment to keep
the sessions flowing, hold audience's concentration and improve
their recall of key information |
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