Experience

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  IDEA

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Co-Founder

    • Jan 2020 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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  Scitech

  • Perth, Australia

  • Education and Learning Development Specialist

    • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
    • Perth, Australia

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  Fogarty Foundation

  • Perth, Australia

  • Director, EDfutures

    • Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
    • Perth, Australia

    At Fogarty Foundation, I developed and lead the Fogarty EDfutures program. We launched in 2018 as an "education ecosystem" focused on systems change and innovation in education. In developing the program, my work focused on consultation and co-design with multiple stakeholders across the education system in WA. In 2018/19 we tested initiatives across five strategic areas: convening a network, incubating innovation in the community, investigating community activity and generating data flow across the ecosystem, advocacy.

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  CoderDojo WA

  • Regional Coordinator

    • Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

    CoderDojo WA is the Western Australian network of “CoderDojo” – an international open source social education movement oriented around the running of fun, free and social coding clubs (Dojos) for young people aged 7-17 (Ninjas). In 2016, CoderDojo WA grew to become the largest regional network of CoderDojo in the world, with over 130 coding clubs across the state. As program manager and regional coordinator, I led implementation of our methodology: catalysing the growth of the community through:- Asset Based Community Development- Capacity building- Social Capital Formation- Systems weaving

  • Program Manager

    • Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

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  Murdoch University

  • Australia
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Project Facilitator

    • Jul 2016 - Dec 2017

    This STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) curriculum project supported teachers' development and implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary curriculum. In my role as project facilitator, my main activities included generating dialogue and building relationships and connections across learning areas at the high school site. I supported teachers to co-design projects and integrated approaches to curriculum and assessment.

  • Casual Tutor, School of Education

    • Feb 2016 - Jul 2016

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  Scitech

  • City West, Perth

  • Professional Learning Consultant

    • Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
    • City West, Perth

    At Scitech, I developed the "Whole School STEM" workshop which supported schools to design an integrated approach to STEM. Teachers were guided to develop project ideas that drew together the three dimensions of the Australian curriculum: the Learning Areas, the General Capabilities and the Cross-Curriculum Priorities.I also worked on the STEM Teacher Development project in the Pilbara. I supported several schools in the Karratha, Roebourne and Wickham areas with the design and implementation of STEM teaching and integrated curriculum projects.

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  St Luke's College

  • Head of Science Department

    • Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

    As the Head of Learning Area, I led the development of a STEAM curriculum at the school. This project focused initially on the re-design of the science learning area curriculum and subsequently became a collaboration between the Science, Technologies, Humanities, Arts, English and Mathematics learning areas - at various levels of integration.

  • Science and Maths Teacher

    • Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

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  Darling Range Sports College

  • Science Teacher

    • Jun 2011 - Dec 2011