John Hattie
Laureate Professor John Hattie's work is internationally acclaimed. His influential 2008 book Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement is believed to be the world’s largest evidence-based study into the factors that improve student learning. This ground breaking study involved more than 80 million students from around the world and brought together 50,000 smaller studies. Visible Learning found that positive teacher-student interaction is the most important factor in effective teaching.
In addition to his work in academia, John is the chair of AITSL, past director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute, past president of the International Test Commission and associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and American Educational Research Journal. John was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours, is a fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and the American Psychological Association, and has published and presented more than 1,200 papers, and supervised over 200 thesis students.
Jenni Donohoo
Jenni Donohoo, PhD, is a best-selling author and professional learning facilitator with more than 15 years’ experience in leading school change. Jenni is the past president of Learning Forward Ontario. In addition to her consulting work, Jenni is on secondment to the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch in the Ontario Ministry of Education. In this role, she works alongside system and school leaders in order to improve the quality professional learning and collaboration in schools and districts.
Jenni is a former classroom teacher and currently works with system, school leaders, and teachers around the world to support high quality professional learning. She has authored many peer-reviewed publications and three best-selling books, including Collaborative Inquiry for Educators, The Transformative Power of Collaborative Inquiry (with Moses Velasco), and Collective Efficacy: How Educators’ Beliefs Impact Student Learning. Jenni’s areas of expertise include collective efficacy, metacognition, adolescent literacy, and facilitating collaborative learning structures.
Stephen Cox
Stephen is the CEO at Osiris Educational. Established in 1996, Osiris Educational is the UK’s leading independent training provider for schools and colleges. As CEO of Osiris, Stephen has successfully led more than 50 educational conferences including Mindsets, Visible Learning and Osiris Teaching Intervention (OTI).
Osiris work with the best and most renowned trainers to ensure teachers improve their practice and schools improve their outcomes. Osiris is always invested in the bigger picture of educational thought. A passion for improving children’s life chances guides our relenting focus on impact and evidence-informed programmes drives the work of Osiris, as is a commitment to providing our excellent programmes to teachers, leaders and schools all around the world.
In October 2019, Osiris launched Insight for Impact (a community interest not for profit company) as part of their ongoing commitment to the education sector.
Peter Dewitt
Peter DeWitt (Ed.D) is a former K-5 teacher (11 years) and principal (8 years). He is an independent consultant who runs competency-based workshops and provides keynotes nationally and internationally focusing on school leadership (collaborative cultures and instructional leadership), as well as, fostering inclusive school climates. His work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education in North America, Australia, Scandinavia and the U.K.
In 2020, DeWitt created the Educational Leadership Collective, which consists of a team of women and men from the US and Canada who focus on all aspects of school leadership. Additionally, DeWitt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao and Michael Fullan. His Finding Common Ground column (Education Week) has been in circulation since 2011. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State's (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year, and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and sits on the panel of experts for NBC Universal's Education Nation.