Next Practice Program
Bringing together the best minds
DEECD provides a program of thought leadership activities in order to expose Victorian educators, leaders and policy makers to the latest thinking in education across the globe. The program creates opportunities for interaction and exchange of ideas and broadens the participants’ perspectives of the education landscape, provoking thinking about new possibilities here in Victoria. The Innovation & Next Practice Division hosts the program which includes visits from national and international thinkers, virtual conferences with leading educators in situ, and study tours to and from Victoria.
The program aims to stimulate innovation and ultimately to inform next practice.
Recent presenters
- Dame Professor Pat Collarbone - Director, Creating Tomorrow Ltd and Former Executive Director of the national remodelling team in the UK
- Professor Stephen Heppell - Founder of Ultralab in the UK
- Jean Johnson - Jean Johnson, the CEO of Notschool.net
- Jason Smith - Co-founder and director of TeacherTube
- Marco Torres - Award winning teacher and media coach
- Derek Robertson - National adviser for emerging technologies, Learning & Teaching Scotland
- Professor Martin Westwell - Director of the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century