Gillian Heald - Guardians
"We want to bring people from different sectors, from different backgrounds together and discuss in a really excited way what secondary education might be like"
Gillian Heald
Gillian has extensive experience in teaching and educational leadership across the sector from pre-school to tertiary. Previously a leader in mathematics education and then Principal of Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch, she is now co-director of Unlimited paenga tawhiti.
Gillian has a number of advisory roles in education and sits on several education and community boards.
Read more from Gillian:
"Students will be central to their learning. It's not okay to have that 'one model fits all' approach."Gillian Heald on Radio New Zealand
"The ‘shrinking globe’ means that knowledge, communication, and market opportunities are becoming dislodged from national frameworks and may not fall within the domain of any particular jurisdiction at all. Instead knowledge and education markets might be reinterpreted in the context of a global community." Address to the Independent Schools of New Zealand
"Secondary Futures is about creating a space to contemplate the future. Together, we need to examine the trends and imagine how the world might be, so that we can help to make more school leavers more successful as they launch from the springboard of secondary education into that future world."Address to Auckland Deputy Principals and Assistant Principals.
"One of the exciting aspects of Secondary Futures to me, is the opportunity to move that passion and commitment away from current concerns and issues and context to thinking about the future - to take that leap into creative futures thinking about New Zealand and New Zealand's future education for secondary age students."Address to PPTA Annual Conference 2004.
