Mark is a teacher, leader and learner based in South Australia with 25 years experience.
Mark is interested in the friction point where ‘best practice’ meets ‘next practice’ and how, as schools and systems , we fan the glowing embers of innovation that are created at this intersection. Marks previous body of work around the ‘Learning of values’ continues through his work about and through online environments.’
“The purpose for schooling is to develop deep reflective thinkers who can choose and use environments creatively to engage in ethical and intellectually rigorous actions.”
Mark has presented nationally and internationally around the convergence between education and technology.
Mark contributes monthly to Australian Teacher Magazine around the opportunities for education through ICT and currently works for Principals Australia as an Executive Consultant in ICT and Innovation.
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Mark is a social, positive-critical principal with connections all over the world.
His drive to help education shift to the next level has no limits and he works hard to achieve that.
Mark is a treasure for education around the world.
Mathijs ter Bork, teacher of the year 2010-2011 from the Netherlands
What a great representative for our ed system.
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It’s been an exciting journey watching Mark achieve so much over the 15 or so years that I’ve worked with him; we all knew from the first meeting that he was a guy that was ‘going places”. So pleased to have been able to work with him and learn from him when he was at my school.
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