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Keynote Biographies

Vivienne White
CEO of the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission

Former National Coordinator of the Australian National Schools Network, Viv White, is now the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission (VSIC). With more than thirty years experience in both the education and policy-making sector, Viv is renowned for her innovative thinking and challenging perspectives.

Along with the Chair of VSIC, the Hon Dr Barry Jones, AO, Viv is committed to generating excitement about learning through capitalising on successful innovative techniques and strategies identified within and outside the education sector. Viv is especially interested in how technology and pedagogical reform can be harnessed to improve the working lives of teachers and the learning lives of students.

Prior to working with the Australian National Schools Network for ten years, Viv has worked in the public education sector as a primary teacher-librarian, policy worker, educational researcher, change agent and facilitator of leadership and team development within schools as well as other organisations.

Viv is especially interested in issues about the educational consequence of inequality and has undertaken major international research projects on educational inequality, school reform and assessment. She has been published widely in journals, books and multimedia.

Viv is committed to working closely with teachers and school communities to build collective knowledge about the education practice. She believes that only through systematically sharing professional knowledge and practice will real improvement for students be possible.





Elizabeth Hartnell-Young MA, M EdSt. AIMM.

Elizabeth was formerly a teacher and principal in Victorian schools and is now a learning and development consultant and Director of Results Unlimited Pty Ltd. She works with people in schools, universities and companies in career development, leadership development and professional development incorporating technology and is known as an energetic and professional workshop presenter.

Founder of 'women@the cutting edge', Elizabeth worked with school teachers and RMIT University to devise a professional development program creating multimedia portfolios in a project funded by AT&T. She has presented workshops about this project in Canada, the UK, USA and Scandinavia and is co-author, with Maureen Morriss, of Digital Professional Portfolios for Change, first published in the US in 1999.

For the past three years Elizabeth has been researching the successful integration of technology in middle years classrooms.

She has also designed and built a solar-powered mudbrick house where she enjoys any spare time.

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