Teachers in Australian schools don’t get enough time to prepare well for class, and student performance is suffering as a result.

Teacher workloads have blown out in recent decades, and many teachers are now too stretched to do everything we ask of them.

In this special Grattan Institute/State Library Victoria, Policy Pitch webinar event, our panel will discuss the bold strategies that are needed to tackle these problems. The panel will examine Grattan Institute’s latest report Making time for great teaching, which identifies three reform directions the Government should adopt. Adam Carey, Education Editor at The Age, will be our moderator.

Please join us by registering for this online event – and join in by submitting your questions.

You can read State Library Victoria’s recommended reading list here.

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Panel


Emma Lindsay

Speaker

Emma Lindsay is a proud south-western Sydney Deputy Principal, Teach For Australia alumni, and fierce advocate for young people. Over the past decade, Emma has continued working in the classroom alongside her school leadership role, supporting teachers to build their expertise and pedagogy. With a keen interest in supporting beginning teachers and, as a career-changer herself, Emma is currently leading the design work of a TFA program in NSW which targets educational inequity and boosts teacher supply.

Danny Pinchas

Speaker

Danny has more than 10 years’ experience as a leader across the education sector and has been at AITSL in 2013. As General Manager, Teaching and School Leadership, he leads AITSL’s work across initial teacher education reform, quality teaching support, and school leadership development. Danny’s responsibilities involve driving and Danny has more than 10 years’ experience as an education leader. As General Manager, Teaching and School Leadership, at AITSL he works across initial teacher education reform, quality teaching support, and school leadership development. Danny previously held positions at the Victorian Department of Education and, before that, spent several years in the Kimberley, working in remote communities as a principal, teacher, and numeracy coach.

Jordana Hunter

Speaker

Dr Jordana Hunter is the Education Program Director at Grattan Institute. She has an extensive background in economics and education policy, having held roles in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Her research interests are in evidence-based policy design and implementation, and teaching quality. She has a PhD in public policy from the University of Melbourne.

Adam Carey

Moderator

Adam Carey has been The Age’s education editor since mid-2019. In 2021 he won the ACEL Victorian media award, and was named MCERA’s journalist of the year. He joined The Age as a trainee sub-editor in 2007, and his previous roles there include state political correspondent and transport reporter.