Hub coordinators

Hub coordinators are responsible for networking nationally and internationally, creating Hubs of interest around innovative ideas.

Kate Cooper (Seabrook)

Interactive Whiteboard Hub Coordinator

Kate Cooper (Seabrook) is an Interactive Technology Specialist. Very much a digital migrant, Kate learnt to use a computer when an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) was installed into her grade 3 classroom in London in 2003. In 2006 Kate moved from London to Melbourne to work with Commander as an IWB Specialist.

Gavin Grift

Curriculum Development Hub Coordinator

As a teacher, educator and ANSN Networker, Gavin Grift is working with staff from Primary and Secondary Schools to improve teaching and learning. He has specifically focused on student wellbeing, authentic assessment and curriculum development in his work with schools in both Australia and the United Kingdom and regularly conducts seminars, workshops and training days on the use of authentic assessment.

Andrew Bills

Connecting Lives and Learning Hub Coordinator

Research and Development Officer

Andrew BillsAndrew Bills Andrew Bills is a Research Fellow in the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. He is also secondary school teacher and counsellor.

He is currently involved in the Australian Research Council's (ARC) funded Redesigning Pedagogies in the North (RPiN) project which seeks to offer a new theory and position about how we do middle schooling in challenging schools. Now in its third year, the project has involved working with ten of Adelaide's northern metropolitan secondary schools, thirty teachers and 1000 students using a collaborative university-school partnership approach to research.

Most of Andrew's teaching career has been devoted to developing and then managing innovative educational programs that offer engagement and support for some of our schools' most marginalised young people.

In 2003 Andrew's work saw the establishment of the Adelaide Hills Vocational College, a second chance program for senior secondary students located on the Mount Barker TAFE campus (currently 100 students), in 2000 the Twilight School (40 students), an out of hours holistic education and well-being project at Windsor Gardens Vocational College and in 1999, the Murray Bridge High School Special Education program (120 students), a program that offers a more inclusive enterprise approach to the education of students with disabilities.

Andrea Federico

Interactive Whiteboard Hub Coordinator

Andrea Federico pictureAndrea Federico Andrea has been involved with the Network since 2004 and has worked extensively with James Anderson and the Habits of Mind Hub since then. She has also taken advantage of the ANSN protocol training and uses them with staff in her schools.

Hanan Harrison

DoL Hub Coordinator

Teaching our Digital Kids Hub Coordinator

Hanan HarrisonHanan Harrison Hanan Harrison is an educator who over the past 6 years has developed a keen interest in pedagogy and innovative curriculum design.