Connecting Lives and Learning Hub Coordinator

Research and Development Officer

Andrew 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.

National Coach

John HoganJohn Hogan has extensive experience, expertise and training in consulting, coaching and supervision; action learning and group work; strategic and project planning, curriculum development; and research and evaluation. John runs an education consulting business, Redgum Consulting Pty Ltd.