ETAWA Council 2009/2010
Executive
Wendy Cody
ETAWA President.
Head of English, Padbury Senior High School.
Wendy has been teaching since the mid-seventies and is instrumental at her current school in curriculum development, literacy planning and policy and ICT education. For three years she was one of the Department of Education & Training Teacher Development Centre Coordinators supporting English teachers through implementation of the WACE English Course. Wendy continues to be involved in several other educational contexts: she is Head of English at Padbury Senior High School, a DET representative on the Curriculum Council Course Advisory Committee; a long-standing TEE and WACE English examination marker; a textbook writer; and Chief Examiner and marker for the English Language Competence Test. As President of ETAWA since 2006, Wendy has actively worked to support members in advocacy roles, the most recent of which is her participation in consultative workshops in relation to the National Curriculum.
wendy.cody@det.wa.edu.au
Rod Quin
ETAWA Secretary. Teacher, Perth Modern School
Rod Quin currently teaches English at Perth Modern School. He has also worked as an education consultant, curriculum writer, education policy officer and head of English at a number of schools. He has written or co-written over ten textbooks for students of English.
rodquin@iinet.net.au
Alex Solosy
ETAWA Vice President. Catholic Education Office.
Alex has taught in schools in Australia and overseas. She has been a Head of Department and Literacy Co-ordinator in a K to 12 campus. She is currently employed as the English and Literacy consultant 7 to 12 at the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia.
alex.solosy@cathednet.wa.edu.au
Adam Kealley
ETAWA Treasurer. All Saints College.
After completing his BA / BEd studies with a focus on adolescent literature, Adam Kealley embarked on a career in English and Drama teaching. He has taught in both the private and state sectors, in rural and city locations, as well as a stint at TAFE teaching creative writing. In the middle of his teaching experience, he took a three year hiatus to work in educational publishing. Adam is currently a Head of House at All Saints' College in Bullcreek.
Adam.Kealley@allsaints.wa.edu.au
Council
Jennifer Bailey Smith
Council Member, Editor of Interpretations. Head of English, Perth College
Jennifer is the newly appointed Head of English at Perth College, where she has taught English and Literature for the last 10 years. She discovered her love for teaching while tutoring at UWA while undertaking her doctoral studies in History and English. She is currently the editor of Interpretations. Jennifer is presently undertaking further studies in the field of Gifted Education.
jennifer@pc.wa.edu.au
Stuart Bender
Council Member
Stuart Bender is currently a doctorate candidate at Murdoch University, researching the practices of production and reception involved in the history of the World War II combat film. He also teaches in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University, and he has been an English teacher in a number of High Schools in Perth, most recently in the Senior Campus at Ballajura Community College. Stuart currently represents the ETAWA on the Curriculum Council Literature Course Advisory Committee. His research interests include the history of English education, reading/viewing practices and governmentality; in 2007 he completed his M. Ed thesis investigating the typical viewing practices encouraged by contemporary English pedagogy with respect to the documentary lesson.
charliedontsurf@inbox.com
Steven Businovski
Council Member; Secondary Directorate, Department of Education & Training
Steven has worked as a teacher of English and Literature in both private and public, metropolitan and regional schools, most recently during 2008 in a secondary college. He is currently attached to the Secondary Directorate within the Department of Education and Training; a role that has primarily seen him support public schools in the implementation of the new courses, and develop performance data understanding among teachers. Steven holds a BA (Hons) and BEd, and is finishing an MEd in assessment, measurement and evaluation.
steven.businovski@det.wa.edu.au
Leith Daniel
Council Member, Kolbe Catholic College.
Leith Daniel has reached his tenth year of teaching which would normally mean he'd be relaxing on a beach somewhere for his long service leave. Unfortunately, after his fourth year of teaching at Newman Senior High School, he switched systems to work at Aquinas College for two years, and then to Kolbe Catholic College. He joined the ETA Council in 2008 which turned out to be a red letter year for him; he was published in a fiction anthology, presented at his second ETA conference seminar and wrote two articles for Interpretations. Currently he is still trying to convince the world that Starship Troopers is the ultimate English text and Spiderman is a greater literary hero than Holden Caulfield.
leithned@yahoo.com.au
Di Edwards
Council member. English and Literacy consultant, AISWA
Di has been teaching for 30 years and has worked in a variety of schools, both in the DET and private sectors, as well as in distance education. Her last teaching position was from 1999 - 2006 at St Marks Anglican College, where she taught English and English Literature. In 2007 Di worked at the Curriculum Council as an English Moderator and in 2008 moved to AISWA to take on the role of English and Literacy Consultant.
dedwards@ais.wa.edu.au
Angela Italiano
Council member. Head of English, Cyril Jackson Senior Campus.
Over the past twenty plus years Angela has taught English in WA city and country government schools. For two years Angela was an English Teacher Development Centre Coordinator and she is Head of English at Cyril Jackson Senior Campus.
aitaliano@cyriljackson.wa.edu.au
Pat Kiddey
Council Member. A/Manager, Primary Directorate.
Pat Kiddey is currently A/Manager Primary Directorate at DET, a role that focuses on Literacy and Numeracy, ESL/ESD, the Aboriginal Literacy Strategy and the Primary Science project. Previously, Pat was a Principal Consultant in the DET K-10 Syllabus team, developing partnerships with external agencies, procuring print and digital learning resources from a range of jurisdictions, and coordinating the development of online resources. Before that, as Stepping Out Manager, she was responsible for conceptualising and developing texts and courses, designing and facilitating professional learning and training programs, and managing marketing and implementation processes across Australia, the UK and Canada. She managed similar processes for VETsteps, across Australia. This year she completes a Doctor of Education degree at UWA.
keyplan@iinet.net.au
Angela Knight
Council Member. Head of English, Swan View Senior High School.
angela.knight@det.wa.edu.au
Clare Macfarlane
Council member. Teacher, Perth College
After studying and working in Melbourne, Clare moved West. She has taught in Kalgoorlie and at Catholic schools around Perth. Clare is passionate about English teaching and is currently working at Perth College.
clarem@pc.wa.edu.au
Karren Philp
Hamilton Senior High School. Council Member
Karren Philp has been an English educator for 28 years and would not have survived if not for the support, resources and collaboration that being a member of ETA affords her. She has taught in 6 government schools and spent the past 6 years focussed on teacher professional development; with DET (2003 – 2005) and as ETAWA’s inaugural PD Officer (2006 – 2008). She first joined ETA Council in 1994 and has served continuously since then, with 7 years as president (1998 – 2004). She completed a four year term as president of the national association (AATE) in 2008. She is currently Head of English at Hamilton Senior High School where she is relishing the opportunities to practise the clever ideas she has learned from her professional networks. She is editor of English Good Answers and the ETA rep on the Curriculum Council’s English Course Advisory Committee.
philp@westnet.com.au
Pippa Tandy
Council Member
Pippa Tandy has been a teacher for over two decades. She is currently doing consultative work in secondary English and Literature, and is teaching at Curtin and Edith Cowan Universities. Pippa has been a member of the English Assessment, Moderation and Review Panel and the English Reference Group for the Curriculum Council. Although she was thrown out of art school in her youth for doing absolutely no work at all, she has since reformed, and is pursuing an interest in photography and other forms of image making. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the work of British writer J.G. Ballard. pippat@westnet.com.au
pippat@westnet.com.au
Barbara Wright
Council member. Head of English, Aranmore Catholic College.
Born and raised in WA, Barbara was sent out to the Eastern Goldfields as an English and French teacher, after completing her studies at UWA. Then followed stints at Thornlie and Kwinana, before she left the classroom for five years' work with the Commonwealth, working in Aboriginal education programs, in the metro area as well as the Pilbara and the Murchison-Gascoyne. She returned to the English classroom at Guildford Grammar, where she worked for 18 years. During this time she completed an M Ed looking at the status of women teachers in boys' schools, and also developed an ongoing interest in incorporating Asian texts into the English classroom. Barbara is currently the English HOLA at Aranmore Catholic College in Leederville.
b.wright@aranmore.wa.edu.au
