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Speaker ProfilesThe Hon. Paula Wriedt MHA Minister for Education Paula was elected to the House of Assembly in February 1996. She has followed in the footsteps of her father, Ken Wriedt, a former Labour Senator, Minister in the Whitlam Government, State Minister and State Labour Leader. She has held the portfolio as Minister for Education since September 1998 and is Tasmania’s youngest ever female member of Cabinet. Her portfolio includes responsibilities for education, training, libraries, archives, youth and child care. Paula is married to Dale Rahmanovic and in April 2000 created history by becoming the first Tasmanian MP or Minister to have a child while in office, with the birth of her son, Daniel. Paula and Dale now have two beautiful children with the birth of their second child, a daughter Amy in October 2001. Paula is enjoying the challenges of Government, and is passionate about the State education system. Paula’s ambition is to bring Tasmanian education from first class, to world class. In December 2000 she launched Learning Together, the Government's vision for education, training and information systems into the 21st Century. This document articulates 134 strategies that will be implemented over a period of time in order to fulfil the long term goal of a world class public education, training and information system for Tasmania.
Prakash Nair Partner, Fielding Nair International Prakash Nair is recognised worldwide as an expert in the areas of innovative school planning and educational technology. He is the recipient of several planning awards including the prestigious CEFPI McConnell Award, the top honour worldwide for school design. Nair has worked as Director of Operations for a multi-billion dollar school construction program for New York City. His many articles about designing schools based on established educational research about how students learn have been published by leading journals around the globe. In 2003, Nair completed a project with the University of Wisconsin on a Rockefeller Foundation-funded grant to develop best practice standards for world-class schools throughout New Jersey and nationally. In 2004, Nair served as northeast regional President of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. In recognition of his work, he received the organisation’s Distinguished Service Award. Nair has been invited by governments and professional organisations as a keynote speaker and consultant in 19 states and ten countries.
Phan Pit Li Senior Vice President, Education Division, CPG Consultants Pte Ltd, Singapore Phan Pit Li is the Senior Vice President of Education Division, CPG Consultants Pte Ltd. Pit Li started her architectural career with the Public Works Department (PWD) in 1989. Her area of specialty is in School Design, and she has been involved in many school projects in the last 15 years. Her first project, Crescent Girls School, set a new benchmark in school design. It was featured in ‘The Architectural Review’, an international architectural journal as well as the book, The History of Architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher, an established textbook for architectural students worldwide. Prior to her appointment as the Senior Vice President of Education Division, Pit Li was the Vice President (Architecture) heading the design group in School Division. She assisted the Ministry of Education in special studies related to school design and various key changes introduced for school design such as The Flexi-Brief and The Modular Brief were the result of this close collaboration. She was also involved in the formulation of the School Design Handbook, a document that translates educators’ requirements into technical and design guidelines as a basis for designers in executing school designs. This ensures a consistency in approach and quality. Beyond her role as an architect, Pit Li is also actively involved in education-related issues, collaborating with the National Institute of Education (NIE) and conducting workshops for their Leaders in Education Programme (LEP) annually since 2001. These efforts address the role of principals in helping to shape the physical learning environment.
Dr Martyn Forrest, BA(HONS) (UWA); DPHIL(OXF) Secretary, Department of Education, Tasmania Dr Martyn Forrest has been the Secretary (Chief Executive) of the Department of Education in Tasmania since 1997. Prior to his appointment he was the Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University of North Queensland, a position he had taken up on a short-term contract in 1996. Before moving to Queensland, Dr Forrest had worked for almost 20 years in Western Australia. Dr Forrest holds a first class honours degree from the University of Western Australia and a doctorate from Oxford University. He is a National Fellow of the Australian Institute of Public Administration. He is also the joint author of the bicentennial publication Australia's Commonwealth Parliament 1901-1988, published by Melbourne University Press in 1989. Dr Forrest presently is Deputy Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, Chair of the Curriculum Corporation, Chair of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs Information and Communication Technologies in Schools Task Force (MCEETYA ICT Taskforce), and Chair of the Le@rning Federation Steering Group. He has recently been appointed to Microsoft’s Australian Partners in Learning Advisory Council.
Jeff Phillips President CEFPI Australasia Jeff Phillips is the principal consultant research and development with the Education Department of Western Australia. Responsible for facility planning policy for all Government schools in Western Australia, Jeff has developed educational and facility briefs for 12 new secondary schools and 42 secondary school renovations. In 1990, Jeff wrote the first educational brief for new secondary schools in Western Australia that moved the system from a "one-size-fits-all" design to one based upon meeting the changing educational environment.
Ron Fanning Past President CEFPI USA Chairman of the Board of Fanning/Howey Associates, an architectural/engineering firm, Mr. Fanning is currently responsible for the overall coordination of the firm's widespread activities, including business development, financial management, and project management and development. Mr. Fanning has over 40 years experience in design, project development, and construction of educational facilities. Prior to his board positions, Fanning served as MidWest/Great Lakes regional president and is currently serving a second three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors.
David Bartlett MHA B.Sc. (Comp.Sci), Grad.Dip.Bus (Prof.Man) Labour member for Denison David Bartlett MHA is the Labour member for Denison in the Tasmanian State Parliament. David was elected in April 2004 and serves on the Public Accounts Committee, the Environment, Resources and Development Committee and the Library Committee of Parliament. He has completed both a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Graduate Diploma of Business in Professional Management at the University of Tasmania. Since 1995 David has been working in the Tasmanian Government and community and has participated in the following activities: - 2002 – 2004 Senior Private Secretary to the
Hon. Dr. David Crean MLC (former Treasurer)
Judy Travers ICT Environments Judy Travers has been with the Tasmanian Department of Education for all of her career and had a number of positions during that time including: teacher - primary and secondary, Principal and District Superintendent (Derwent) for 7 years, Director of e-magine, the Centre for Excellence in Online Learning for 4 years and she is currently starting a new unit as Director, called CELO, Centre for Extended Learning Opportunities
Elvio Brianese (Design Inc) Flair in Architecture Elvio has over twenty years design experience in fine art, design, industrial design and architecture. Successful international design projects and design awards for new and recycled Education buildings are a testament to his ability to articulate strong design principals. Elvio has developed a specialised knowledge in creating flexible learning environments liberated through technology without becoming clinical in their resolution.
Sheree Vertigan Community Use of School Facilities Sheree Vertigan is the principal of Reece High School in Devonport Tasmania. She came to this position in 2002, part way through the rebuilding of the school. In December 2000, an arsonist attack substantially destroyed the school and for two years the school was collocated with another high school in the city. As a forward thinking educational leader, Mrs Vertigan had the challenge of bringing together the design brief and moving the school community to current thinking on teaching and learning informed by extensive research on best practice and the work of the Tasmanian Department of Education (Essential Learnings Framework), so as to create a state of the art, world class school. In September 2003, Reece High School was the recipient of the James D. MacConnell Award, known as the highest honour for school planning and design and bestowed on one project each year by the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. It was the first time that the award was given to a school outside of the United States. Reece High School produced the best planned, designed, and technologically advanced school in the world. However the Reece High School story is based on far more than building design, it is about what can happen when you change the dialogue from one about the buildings to one about the future of learning; that is what makes a good school.
Neil McIntosh Jacob Allom Wade Architects Innovation in Further Education
Robyn Moore Robyn Moore has a background in education and 30 years in the Communications Industry. Her voice is heard in our best known TV and radio commercials, she created all female voices in Australia’s longest running radio comedy “How Green Was My Cactus” and she’s enchanted children as the voice behind Australia’s most mischievous cartoon character “Blinky Bill” (seen in 70 countries!) She is now inspiring conference audiences around Australia and beyond and is considered to be one of the countries best speakers. Robyn was Awarded the 1998 “National Communicator of the Year Award” (by Toastmasters International) for EXCELLENCE in oral communication. This multi-skilled communicator speaks in many different states every week about “The Power of the Word” and her unique relationship with words allows her to open up “life-altering” communication skills for her clients. Robyn has also been an Australia Day Ambassador to Fairfield, Albury, Culcairn and Urana Shire, Bega Windsor, Port Macquarie, Gunnedah, Glen Innes and New Norfolk.
Mick Sheehan Mr Mick Sheehan is Principal of Sorell School, in Tasmania. Sorell is basically a K-10 school with a small VET unit for Grades 11 and 12. It has an enrolment of 1,000 students. Mick is in his 10th year as Principal of Sorell. Previously, for 4 years, he was Principal of Latrobe High School in the north-west of Tasmania and before that he was an assistant principal for 10 years at Rose Bay High School, in Hobart. Mick commenced teaching in 1963 and, apart from 18 months in the Commonwealth Public Service, he has spent all of his working life in schools. Mick’s recent professional interests have included middle schooling and reworking the educational program for Grades 9 and10. As a representative of the Australian Secondary Principals Association, he was a foundation member of Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council (APAPDC). He continues to take a particular interest in the professional development of principals and of those who aspire to be principals. His outside interests include sailing, bushwalking, live theatre, trad. jazz, red wine and, hopefully, motor cycling. |
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