WELLINGTON CHAIR LOUISE GREEN. Louise has been working in education in New Zealand for 30 years. She is a trained and qualified primary teacher and has taught across New Entrants to Year 8. Louise moved into her first principal role in 1995, as a teaching principal in rural Waikato, and has worked most recently as Principal of Khandallah School in urban Wellington. She was the NZEI Te Riu Roa representative on the New Zealand Teachers Council for six years to 2014. Louise first joined NZEI Te Riu Roa National Executive in 2006, and represented principals on the Executive from 2011-2014. Louise is currently the elected National President (Te Manukura), NZEI Te Riu Roa.

JESSICA WALKER began her career in the teaching profession in 2005, as an English teacher at Dakabin State High School, north of Brisbane. She transferred to Yeronga State High School in Brisbane in 2007 and is currently a Deputy Principal at this school.

Yeronga High is incredibly diverse, with students representing over 65 different cultures and coming from over 60 different countries. Over 300 students from refugee or asylum-seeking backgrounds attend Yeronga High, and Jessica is dedicated to advocating for these young people, supporting and empowering them to overcome the barriers particular to this complex group.

Jessica understands that equity is about giving students the opportunities and resources they need to be successful and is committed to a better future for every student, regardless of background, through ensuring a high quality and supportive educational experience. Jessica believes in the transformative power of positive education and has a master’s degree in Education (Guidance & Counselling).

Jessica has the best interests of students at the forefront of her leadership and works with a large number of agencies, including the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU), to facilitate optimum support for students. Jessica has been a QTU Representative since 2008. She models Yeronga High’s values of Quality, Sustainability & perhaps most importantly, Harmony, leading a talented and committed staff and a diverse group of students to achieve a united vision of “Quality Pathways to Success”.

PANEL DISCUSSION: ON THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PROFESSIONALS TO SPEAK OUT

WELLINGTON BIOS

DR ERIK MONASTERIO is the Clinical Director for the Canterbury District Health Board Regional Forensic Service, Consultant in Forensic Psychiatry and Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Otago’s Christchurch School of Medicine. He has researched and published widely on the negative health implications and exacerbation of inequity and inequality associated with a new generation of trade deals, in particular the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Dr Monasterio, is one of the founding members of Doctors for Healthy Trade, a voluntary group of NZ doctors who aim to develop a broad, international medical consensus on the protection of health in trade and investment agreements. Dr Monasterio’s presentation will focus on his experience of speaking out in support of health and the reason why he believes doctors have a duty and responsibility to speak out in these situations.

PROFESSOR SHAUN HENDY is Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. Te Pūnaha Matatini is a national research network that uses methods from complex systems to solve problems for business and to develop better economic and environmental policies. Shaun teaches in both the Department of Physics and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland. In 2012, Shaun was awarded the Callaghan Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize for his work as a science communicator. In 2013 he co-authored Get Off the Grass with the late Sir Paul Callaghan, and his new book, Silencing Science, was released in May 2016.

PERRY RUSH is principal of Island Bay School in Wellington and is a member of the NZ Principals Federation national executive. He was a founding member and spokesperson for the Boards Taking Action Coalition (BTAC), a group of school boards opposing the introduction of National Standards. He has spoken regularly at NZEI TE Riu Roa events on designing teaching and learning to meet children’s needs, rather than following a narrow curriculum and using standardised assessments to produce quantitative data.

THIS EVENT IS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

* means placeholder link at this stage