An Australian in New York

Lisa is an experienced teacher, school leader and international education consultant - at one stage spending a decade in NewYork - who currently works as a Pedagogical Consultant in Australia, supporting educators and prior-to-school and primary school leaders..  Lisa’s interests include early childhood education and care, imbedding and contextualizing the principles of the Reggio Emilia educational project within learning environments, play, literacy learning, inquiry learning and strengthening children’s connections to nature. She is passionate about ways of teaching that see children as capable and competent learners who are skilled in researching life and making connections. Her favourite work is side-by-side with children and educators in their learning settings.

Lisa has presented at a number of national and international conferences and will tell us about her time in New York as well as her current cutting edge work.