As a member of the Secondary School Senior Leadership Team and Head of Wellbeing in the Senior School, I: Develop and implement wellbeing curriculum, strategies, interventions and processes across the Secondary School;Lead, develop and support the wellbeing and pastoral care capacity of the Middle Leadership Team;Oversee the Daily Organiser and Action for Happiness social media wellbeing initiatives; Partner with students, teachers and parents to support high-need behaviour and wellbeing concerns within the secondary school using compassion, respect, confidentiality, and drawing upon informed and continuing professional development in wellbeing, culture change, positive leadership, counselling and social and emotional learning;Directly oversee the grade 11 and 12 year level for academic and pastoral care; Teach Australian curriculum Grade 10 and 11 English, Grade 10 Business/ Economics, Grade 11 and 12 GC Core (IB Theory of Knowledge equivalent)Supervise the IB extended essay and coordinate the IB CAS and service learning program

Co-ordinated year level student well-being, academic care, parent engagement as Year Level Leader, overseeing Year 11, Year 7 and Year 8Coordinated Year 7 to 8 English curriculum, Year 9 humanities curriculum, Year 7 to 8 wellbeing curriculumWrote the curriculum for and introduced the first ever positive education program to be used at a school in the UAE Evaluated whole school wellbeing needs and initiated an evidence-based positive wellbeing and resilience program with the K-12 wellbeing teamLed from the middle and wrote a comprehensive wellbeing program and online wellbeing course that was shared, taken up and taught across year 6 to 9Delivered whole school professional development sessions on restorative justice, behavioural management and positive education values and practicesManaged the integration of digital learning platforms Edmodo, iTunesU and Onenote into the classroom as Digitital Learning Leader, and mentored teachers on best practice IT uses. Supervised the IB Diploma Extended Essays Taught Australian curriculum English, humanities, inquiry, wellbeing, physical education, math, Year 7 to 10Coached rugby and basketball, ran the Scuba club, led the Robotics Club trip to the International Robotics Competition in China.

Providing expertise and guidance on Australian Indigenous culture and ensuring respectful and appropriate actions related to Australian Indigenous people, culture, and issues.

Developed and aligned the whole school humanities curriculum.

Led 240 students and almost 20 staff with the Year 7 leadership team. Developed and aligned cross-curriculum at the Year 7 level. Focused student management and pastoral care on welfare and restorative practices. Organised grade level extracurricular programs, camps and well-being days.

Taught intervention literacy math, health and physical education, science, English, humanities (history, geography and economics). Applied AVID inquiry and socratic teaching strategies. Coached the baseball and basketball teams to the State Finals 2 times and 5 times, respectively.

Supervised a Wodonga Secondary College residence for students at risk of homelessness and school failure.Encouraged students academic, social, recreation, home skills and modelled positive engagement in education, employment, self-care, home care, communication, behaviour.

Primary and Secondary School substitute teacher for the Victorian Upper Hume and Far North Queensland regions.

Hosted Black is Black music radio program.Wrote and presented the indigenous news segment.Sourced, edited and produced local and national radio news on Bumma Bippera 98.7FMProduced content for the Cairns Post weekend lift-out.Correspondent and photo-journalist for the Torres News, covering Cairns and the far north Queensland region.