Inspiration, Influence and Impact

My guest this episode, Dr. Amie Fabry, shares her passionate advocacy for the early years, and her work supporting educators and leaders to provide quality early years education so that children thrive holistically. Amie's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations: * People - Kathy Hirsh-Pasek; Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan; The Learning Future * Books - Dare to Lead", "The Gifts of Imperfection" and "Atlas of the Heart" by Brene Brown; "The Importance of Being Little" by Erika Christakis * Podcasts - The Learning Future with Louka Parry; Game changers with Phil Cummins and Adriano Di Prato, On Purpose with Jay Shetty; Huberman Lab

* Cause - Learn about the Early Years

* Dream Travel Destination - Italy

Connect with Amie:

• LinkedIn - Amie Fabry PhD and The Learning Future
• Instagram - @amiefabry_earlyyears
• X - @amie_fabry
• Email - [email protected]

My guest this episode, Jonathan Nalder, shares his creative journey in education as a digital technologies and STEM innovator, and his mission to inspire as an 'Edunaut'.

Jonathan's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - Michael Holmstrom, Chris Buswell, Susan Kilrain, Dr Michaela, Musilova, Prof Stephen Heppell
• Books - Anything from the educator focused group of authors at xfactoredu.org, codebreakeredu.com, mammoth learning.co
• Cause - Literacy in Northern Ghana lingproject.org
• Dream Travel Destination - Iceland...and Mars

Connect with Jonathan:

• LinkedIn - Jonathan 'the Edunaut' Nalder
• X - @jnxyz
• Instagram - @jnxyz
• Website - jnxyz.net, stempunks.com.au
• Threads - @jxnyz

My guest this episode, Adrienne Hornby, shares how her own life experiences, the influence of those around her and her work in school leadership roles have inspired and guided her journey to supporting schools to prioritise staff health and wellbeing.

Adrienne's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - anyone who is a professional in an area you wish to strengthen.
• Book - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• Podcast - My Mum Says My Memoir is a Lie: Diary of a CEO
• Cause - one which inspires you
• Dream Travel Destination - Greece and Spain

Connect with Adrienne:

• LinkedIn - Adrienne Hornby
• Website - adriennehornby.com.au
• Podcast - Well Led Schools

Adrienne Hornby a Staff Wellbeing Consultant and Strategist for Schools

Dedicated to fostering thriving school communities, Adrienne collaborates with school leaders and their staff to collect vital data and devise and implement personalised 'Staff Wellbeing Action Plans.'

With a background as a school leader and teacher in ACT government schools, she became a Health and Wellbeing Coach in 2018. Bringing these two professions together resulted in her current role as a Staff Wellbeing Consultant where she has worked with over 45 Australian and international schools since leaving education in 2022.

Leveraging her own innovative approach, Adrienne developed the '6 Steps to Becoming a Well-Led School' - Which are those schools that lead with wellbeing in mind. Her model integrates Positive Psychology’s PERMA(H) Model, the latest educational leadership research, and insights from leading wellbeing organisations.

Her focus is on equipping school leaders, teachers, and staff with strategies aligned with personal and professional wellbeing and culture building.

My guest this episode, Dr. Selena Fisk, shares her passion for data storytelling, how her love of data evolved and her mission to support others to shift the focus from being data driven to data informed.

Selena's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• Person - Amy Green
• Book - 'Think Again' by Adam Grant
• Podcast - 'At the Table' with Patrick Lencioni
• Cause - Orange Sky Australia
• Dream Travel Destination - Japan

Connect with Selena:

• LinkedIn - Dr. Selena Fisk
• Instagram - @selenafisk
• Facebook - Dr Selena Fisk - Data Storyteller
• X - Dr Selena Fisk
• Tik Tok - Dr Selena Fisk
• Threads - Selena Fisk
• Website - selenafisk.com

Selena Fisk a data storyteller and grounded researcher who works with corporates, NFPs and school systems to develop data-informed strategies that lead to action and benefit the organisation. She is an advocate for having data champions in all organisations, as she believes that data can and should be used to create positive change and impact… but we need people who see the value of data to lead the change in their sphere of influence.
Selena's work is based on the notions of data literacy, data visualisation, and data storytelling. She helps people understand, communicate, and act on data effectively and ethically, using storytelling techniques and visualisations.

My guest this episode, Dimity Powell, shares her love of stories, the impact books have had on her life, and her passion for inspiring and igniting interest in reading and storytelling in children. She talks about her mission for fostering caring through sharing, and driving change in communities.

Dimity's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - those with shared interests; people you've never met before.
• Books - 'The Duck and The Darklings' by Glenda Miller and Stephen Michael King; 'A Gentleman In Moscow' by Amor Towles
• Podcast - Your Kid's Next Read; One More Page
• Cause - Peace
• Dream Travel Destination - The Whitsundays

Connect with Dimity:

• LinkedIn - Dimity Powell⁠
• Instagram - @dimityspowell
• X - @DimityPowell
• Website - www.dimitypowell.com⁠
• Blog - Dim’s Write Stuff ; Dim’s re Views
• Facebook Page - Dimity Powell Author
• Pinterest- https://www.pinterest.com.au/dimitypowell/⁠
• Amazon Author Page- Dimity Powell
• Good Reads - Dimity Powell
• Twitch TV- https://www.twitch.tv/dimitypowell
• YouTube- Dimity Powell

Award winning children's author, Dimity Powell who writes and reviews exclusively for children with over 30 published stories and is the Managing Editor for Kids' Book Review. She believes picture books are life essentials, like ice cream; to be enjoyed at least once a day. Her own include: Pippa and The Troublesome Twins (2023), This is My Dad (2022), Oswald Messweather (2021), Pippa (2019), the award-winning At the End of Holyrood Lane (2018) and the critically acclaimed, The Fix-It Man (2017). Several of her books are also available in simplified Chinese, Polish, Spanish and Solvenian.

Dimity has strong convictions about the power of storytelling and loves filling every spare moment with words which is handy when it comes to advocating Kids’ Lit. She reveres sharing her accumulated knowledge with big and little kids alike and is a Books in Homes Australia Volunteer Role Model, Hook Into Books Ambassador, Story City Community Mentor and G.A.T.EWAYS online and onsite presenter who can’t surf despite living on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Discover more at: www.dimitypowell.com

My guest this episode, Dr. Joanne Casey, shares her journey in education, her passion and interest in how the brain works and how schools are organised to foster and support collaboration, and supporting leaders to understand the cognitive and social complexities of the work teachers do.

Joanne's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - Educational leaders who resonate with, and also challenge, your topics of interest
• Books - Picture books - Jackie French, Shaun Tan, Jeannie Baker; Anything that brings you joy
• Podcast - EduSalon
• Cause - Any that supports a more peace filled humanity
• Dream Travel Destination - Anywhere snow falls at Christmas

Connect with Joanne:

• Linkedin - Dr. Joanne Casey
• X- @JoanneCasey41

Joanne is an education practitioner and researcher. She has been working in a range of school contexts to support the implementation of system and school based improvement initiatives. She is a curriculum and pedagogy nerd!

As an advocate for contextual, flexible and research-based approaches, Joanne draws on her extensive experience of teaching in primary, secondary and tertiary settings when bridging and boundary crossing research, policy, and practice. It helps that she has also worked across our three education sectors - Government, Catholic and Independent.

Previous studies in organisations, change and education lead to Joanne’s doctoral studies - exploring associations among cognitive limitations for interactions, collaboration as an improvement strategy, and silo mentality.

Findings from this research affirm that collaboration is important work but is underestimated and undervalued in its cognitive and social complexity. With the social brain in mind, Joanne works with school leaders and teachers to create and refine environments where collaboration addresses the changing and evolving nature of an educator's work, usually among multiple demands vying for attention, often simultaneously, in the time available.

Determining what is reasonable is not always a straightforward exercise. Without additional and different types of knowledge, training, and professional experience, school leaders can inadvertently contribute to further barriers to collaboration within their contexts. Joanne’s research provides an alternative framework to provide structure for a team’s planning and decision making. School leaders, in considering the nature of the relationship between human cognition and sociality, from an evolutionary point of view, can explore ways to address problems of practice that are based on their own context, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

My guest this episode, Lyn Sharratt, shares her passion for equity and excellence for all students and all teachers, and the power of putting faces to the data to increase student growth and achievement.

Lyn's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - John Hattie, Michael Fullan
• Book - Selena Fisk's work
• Podcast - Learning Walks and Talks with AITSL
• Cause - Australia Literacy Educators Association
• Dream Travel Destination - Ningaloo Reef, Australia

Connect with Lyn:

• Website - lynsharratt.com
• LinkedIn - Lyn Sharratt
• Instagram - @lyn_sharratt
• X - @LynSharratt
• You Tube - Lyn Sharratt

Lyn Sharratt is a practitioner and researcher working in remote and urban settings worldwide. Lyn is an Adjunct Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada; an Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Australia; an author consultant for Corwin Press; an advisor for International School Leadership with the Ontario Principals’ Council; and consults internationally, working with system, school, and teacher leaders at all levels in Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Lyn focuses her time and effort on increasing each student’s growth and achievement by working alongside leaders and teachers to put FACES on their data, taking intentional action to make equity and excellence a reality for ALL students.

Visit www.lynsharratt.com for articles, video clips, and podcasts; on Twitter: @LynSharratt; on Instagram: lyn_sharratt; and on LinkedIn where Lyn owns the “Educational Leadership” LinkedIn group made up of 104,000+ members.

Lyn’s authorship includes Realization: The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform (with Michael Fullan); Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! (with Michael Fullan); Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route, K–12+ (with Gale Harild); Leading Collaborative Learning: Excellence (with Beate Planche); CLARITY: What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching and Leading (International Best-Selling Education Book in 2020); and Putting FACES on the Data: the 10th Anniversary Edition (with Michael Fullan).

Lyn is proud of the recent co-development of the CLARITY Learning Suite (CLS)—a web-based collaborative Professional Learning opportunity that mirrors the text, CLARITY. Lyn and her team believe that everyone’s a leader, thus CLS provides guidance to Learning Leaders on how to do this work of system and school improvement—together—to make a difference for all students. Visit www.claritylearningsuite.com.

My guest this episode, Tracey Ezard, shares her passion for supporting school leaders to build cultures where everyone thrives, through balancing the head and the heart, with a focus on self-awareness, connecting with those you lead and developing trust, in addition to strategic leadership skills. Tracey's inspiration, influential and impactful recommendations: Person - Professional Associations, Experts in their field Book - 'The Invitation' by Oriah Podcast - Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell Cause - The Corner Store Network Dream Travel Destination - Sumbawa Island, Indonesia Connect with Tracey: Website: Tracey Ezard LinkedIn: Tracey Ezard Facebook: Tracey Ezard - Engage, Collaborate, Act Instagram: @traceyezard X: @traceyezard Email: [email protected]

My guest this episode, Annick Rauch, shares her writing journey and how being vulnerably honest about her struggles resonated with others. She talks about her desire to help others with their own challenges by inspiring reflections and offering tips to pursue your dreams while still being your best self.

Annick's inspiration, influential and impactful recommendations:

• Person - Lainie Rowell
• Book - Learn Like a Pirate by Paul Solarz
• Podcast - Dave Burgess Show with Dave Burgess; Science of Reading: The Podcast
• Cause - Multiple Sclerosis
• Dream Travel Destination - Hawaii; Australia

Connect with Annick:

• Instagram - @annickrauch
• X - @annickrauch
• Blog - annickrauch.com

Annick Rauch is the author of PheMOMenal Teacher. She is a passionate grade 1 French Immersion teacher who truly loves what she does. Outside of school, Annick is a very busy mom. She and her husband Chris have four energetic boys and a silver lab. Annick loves to go camping with her family, and she also makes it a priority to carve out time for trips with friends. Although busy, Annick doesn’t let that stop her from pursuing her dreams outside of her work and home life. She is an avid runner, and she blogs at annickrauch.ca. Annick is a lifelong learner who continues to follow her passions.

My guest this episode, Liz Benson, shares her passion for middle leadership and how her own journey drives her work to support middle leaders to thrive. She discusses her mission to elevate the perception of middle leadership to be seen as a complex and complete role.

Liz's inspirational, influential and impactful recommendations:

• People - Connect with others who meet your needs
• Book - Energising Teaching: The power of your unique pedagogical gift by Frank Crowther; Step In, Step Up: Empowering Women for the School Leadership Journey by Jan Kise and Barbara Watterson

• Podcast - ReThinking with Adam Grant; Teacher's Education Review with Cameron Malcher; Education Research Reading Room with Ollie Lovell; Chat 10 Looks 3 with Leigh Sales and Annabelle Crabb
• Cause - International Women's Day
• Dream Travel Destination - Luxury Train Trip

Connect with Liz:

• LinkedIn - Liz Benson