ConnectED 24 Middle Leaders
Leading Teaching, Learning, Wellbeing Resiliently for Equity
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ConnectED 24
Registration and Accommodation
- Please access VMS' ConnectED 24 registration page.
- Thanks to significant support from our sponsors and being mindful of a tightening fiscal environment, ConnectED has been able to reduce registration costs for 2024.
- 2024 Middle Leader per day registrations are $175 + GST ($192.50) - also subsidised.
- 2024 School and System Leader per day registrations are $200 + GST ($220 inclusive).
- 2024 Conference Dinner registrations are $125 + GST ($137.50 inclusive).
- Schools and DoE Business units should consider bulk registration of all middle, senior and system leader delegates via PCard/PO to minimise registration fees.
- Registration fees are $14 per registration - Please contact 02 9524 3087 or helpline@vmsconferences.com.au to arrange bulk registrations.
- PCard transactions will attract a 1.75% levy.
- The ConnectED organising team looks forward to world-class, professional learning with you.
- Web Booking Instructions
- Select Rydges Resort Hunter Valley, enter your dates and number of people and click ‘GO’
- Click ‘I have a code’
- In the ‘Block Code’ field (not the Promo code field) enter your Block Code: CE5 (C, E, Five)
- Click ‘UPDATE’
- Your special rates will appear on the rates screen
- Available for stays between 21st-24th May 2024
Who and how to get there?
ConnectED 24 School and System Leaders Conference
World-Class Speakers ~ in the Hunter Valley!
Keynote Speakers for ConnectED Middle Leaders' Conference
Professor Pak Tee NG, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Professor Tracy Vaillancourt, University of Ottawa
Dr Lyn Sharratt, University of Toronto
Dr Jana Pittman
Please register via VMS Conferences using the DoE-only Link above (until 10:00am 01/05/24)
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 07:30 am
Rydges Resort Hunter Valley, Wine Country Drive, Lovedale New South Wales, Australia
Agenda
ConnectED 24: Middle Leaders Conference
ConnectED 24: Middle Leaders Conference ~ Wednesday, 22nd May, 2024
7:30 Registration Begins, Sponsors Zone open for delegates
8:45 Acknowledgment of Country
8:50 Official opening of the 8th ConnectED Middle Leaders Conference
8:55 Professor Pak Tee NG (60-minute keynote)
9:55 Professor Tracy Vaillancourt (60-minute keynote)
10:55 Diamond Sponsors’ Session
11:00 Morning Tea - Sponsors' Zone open
11:30 DoE Senior Executive Presentation (speaker to be confirmed)
12:00 Combined Principals' Association Presentation (State Presidents Robyn Evans, PPA, Craig Petersen, SPC, and Matthew Johnson, SEPLA)
12:30 Diamond Sponsor’s Session
12:35 Lunch - Sponsors' Zone open
1:25 Lunch ends – Conference Information
1:30 Dr Lyn Sharratt (60-minute keynote)
2:30 Dr Jana Pittman (60-minute keynote)
3:30 Teaching, Learning and Student Wellbeing Address - TBC
4:00 Conference Closure, Brief Sponsors Session.
4:10 Close of 2022/23 ConnectED Middle Leaders Conference
4:15 Drive Safely - see you and your team in May next year for ConnectED 25
ConnectED 25 ~ 21/5/25 - 23/5/25
- Negotiations underway with Yong Zhao, Ted Dintersmith, Alma Harris, Carol Campbell and Tom Guskey.
Speaker Biographies
Dr Lyn Sharratt
Dr Lyn Sharratt, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Dr. Lyn Sharratt is a highly accomplished practitioner, researcher, author, and presenter. She holds a BA in Social Work from the University of Waterloo, a BEd from the University of Western Ontario, an MEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, a Doctorate in Education from the University of Toronto, and Supervisory Officer qualifications from the Province of Ontario.
Dr. Sharratt coordinates the doctoral internship program in the Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has worked in four school districts across Ontario as a Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, School Superintendent, Administrator, Curriculum Leader, and a K–10 and Special Education teacher.
Lyn's background reflects cumulative experiences that include teaching all elementary grades and secondary- aged students in inner-city and rural settings; analyzing and commenting on public policy for a provincial trustee organization, the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association; teaching preservice education at York University and master’s and doctoral students at University of Toronto and Nipissing University; and leading in-service professional development in a provincial teachers’ union head office.
Lyn is a widely published researcher and author. She is lead author, with Michael Fullan, of “Realization: The Change Imperative for Increasing District-Wide Reform” (Corwin, 2009) and “Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders Do!” (Corwin, 2012, published in English, Spanish, and Arabic). Lyn is lead author of “Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route K–12” (Corwin, 2015) with Gale Harild and of “Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering Excellence” (Corwin, 2016) with Beate Planche. “CLARITY: What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading” (Corwin, 2019) is her fifth book that reflects all of her work across the globe from 2009–2019. It will be released mid-October, 2018.
As well as an author and practitioner working in remote and urban settings, worldwide, Lyn is an advisor for International School Leadership with the Ontario Principals’ Council; is an author consultant for Corwin Press; and consults internationally, working with system, school, and teacher leaders at all levels in Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She works tirelessly, focusing her time and efforts on increasing each student’s growth and achievement by working alongside leaders and teachers to put FACES on their data, taking intentional action to make equity and excellence a reality for all students.
Visit her at www.lynsharratt.com
Professor Pak Tee NG
Professor Pak Tee NG, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pak Tee NG [National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University] is a Singaporean educator who is deeply involved in the development of school and teacher leaders. At the NIE, he previously served as Associate Dean Leadership Learning, Head of the Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group, and NIE Academic Integrity Officer.
Pak Tee began his career as a Mathematics teacher after reading the discipline in Cambridge University under a scholarship he gratefully received from his country. He served a stint as a Ministry of Education (MOE) officer before joining the NIE as an academic. At the NIE, he has previously served as Associate Dean Leadership Learning and Head of the Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group. His main work is in education change and leadership.
Pak Tee has published extensively on educational change, policy and leadership. He has spoken at many global events, for example, Google Global Education Symposium, International Baccalaureate Global Conference, and Scottish Learning Festival. He is currently a member of Scotland’s International Council of Education Advisers and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
Internationally, government organisations, professional networks and media often seek his views or advice regarding educational change. Having retired from journal editorship, he now serves as honorary mentor to a few younger editors. He is an editorial board member of several other international refereed journals. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Leading Change book series and the author of the book “Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes”.
Pak Tee encourages educators to walk a path not easily travelled, with love, courage and resilience. Although he is thankful for receiving a few awards during his career, his greater reward is a fraternity of students who are educational leaders themselves and who pay it forward through their educational leadership and commitment to education.
Pak Tee has been conferred awards such as the National Day Award of Public Administration Medal (Bronze) for merit and service to education; and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association. He has also won various teaching awards and has been conferred a Fellow of NTU Teaching Excellence Academy. However, his greater reward is a fraternity of students who pay it forward through their contribution and commitment to education.
Following on Pasi Sahlberg’s 2023 ConnectED address regarding equity in education, Pak Tee Ng will share his thoughts regarding what equity, excellence and student wellbeing mean in Singapore.
- How does Singapore promote equity and excellence in education?
- How does Singapore approach the issue of student wellbeing?
- How do the concepts of equity, excellence and student wellbeing fit together in Singapore?
Prof. Tracy Vaillancourt
Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Dr. Vaillancourt is also a member of the Brain and Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Faculty of Law, uOttawa. She is the president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, a fellow and Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force for the Royal Society of Canada, the Chief Editor, Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Child Mental Health and Interventions, and a Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Professor Tracy Vaillancourt holds the Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention. She is a full professor in the Faculty of Education, a cross-appointed full professor in Counselling Psychology and the School of Psychology, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance (CIGI).
Professor Vaillancourt's research examines the links between bullying and mental health, with a particular focus on social neuroscience. Her work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of Public Safety Canada's National Expert Committee on Countering Radicalization to Violence
Contact Information
Full Professor
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention
Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education
School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
Brain and Mind Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa
Lamoureux Hall, 145 Jean-Jacques Lussier
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 4134 (office) or ext. 5752 (Brain and Behaviour Lab)
Email: tracy.vaillancourt@uottawa.ca
Twitter: @vaillancourt_dr
Dr Jana Pittman
2021 Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Dr Jana Pittman’s story is a roller coaster of triumph, defeat, failure and success. She will take you on a journey through the peaks and troughs that helped shape her career and build her into who she is today.
Two times World Champion, four times Commonwealth Champion, in the sport of athletics, Dr Pittman personifies resilience and determination. When continued injuries hampered her athletic career and could have signalled retirement, she swapped the track for the ice. Jana joined the Australian Women’s bobsleigh team, to become the first women to represent Australia in both a Summer (2000,2004) and Winter Olympic Games (2014).
Off the track, Jana completed a Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery and is now a registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has completed a Masters of Reproductive Medicine at the University of NSW and has initiated her PhD in Obstetrics, focusing on aspects of uterus transplantation).
Jana was a participant in the gruelling television show SAS Australia on Channel 7 and more recently she joined her 16-year-old son Cornelis on Channel 10’s ‘The Amazing Race-Australia’, raising money for the hospital she works at ‘The Royal Hospital for Women’. Jana recently released her second book ‘Enough’ in early 2023.
Despite her career success, Jana says her greatest achievement is being a mum to her 6 children, following the birth of twins in 2022.