Leadership for Effective School Improvement: Using the National School Improvement tool

Janet is passionate about education and has a strong interest in the impact of leadership on teaching and learning as well as exploring the complexity of leadership at all levels. She enjoys the challenge of school improvement in different contexts and working with teams to empower them to make the changes that are needed. She is committed to working with aspiring leaders and to doing all she can to promote women in leadership. This is an area of increasing interest and her research and Janet has established a network of Women in Educational Leadership that is open to anyone interested in attending the meetings. Janet is also keen to support those new to teaching so that they continue to grow and to see themselves as lifelong learners rather than being lost to other careers.

Janet has over twenty years’ experience as a school leader and has taught at all levels. She holds a Master of Education degree, her research being in the area of middle schooling. She has worked on a number of state and national committees and represented the Independent Sector on the Secretariat of the Australian Primary Principals Association. She was Vice-President of that association and is now a life member. In 2010 Janet was the recipient of a John Laing Award that recognizes those school leaders who have significantly contributed to the professional learning of their colleagues. Janet is a school visitor, reader and consultant for the International Baccalaureate Primary years Program and a strong believer in the strength of the IB.

Janet looks forward to working with teachers and school leaders in order to support them in the complex work that they do in order to improve outcomes for students.