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Here are the links to Mary and Brian’s CVs from the Ministry of Education database.
Infinity facilitators Brian and Mary are highly skilled advisors to leaders and teachers across the education system. Their considerable national and international experience means they are adept at analysing situations in a variety of contexts and identifying positive ways forward. Brian and Mary are capable of supporting one school to hundreds of schools and multiple communities. They have provided Direct-services to Ministry’s of Education, districts, schools and communities around the world since start-up of the company in August 2015. Strategic alliances with Positively Psychology Ltd in NZ and the Harry Singer Foundation in San Francisco have expanded possibilities to include safety, wellbeing and philanthropic ventures.
A few examples are,
- Regional Ministry team – Matauri Bay School, Northland, NZ, Learning Maps (2020)
- Direct to school – Fernridge School, Masterton, NZ, Learning Maps (2020)
- Alternative Education, Monterey County, California, Individual Student Learning Plans (2017-2020). Link to article on our publications page click here
- Harry Singer Foundation, San Francisco, California, Education Improvement Partnership NZ & USA (2016-2020). Ministry of Education, Sevres, France, Education Policy-to-practice Success Factors in NZ, (2019). Link to article click here
- Centre for Curriculum Redesign, Harvard University, Boston, Competencies for the future linked to Infinity Learning Maps (2018-20)
- Ministry of Education NZ, Kāhui Ako contract, expert partner services, distance learning and national conference presentations (2017-20). Link to online article click here
- Direct to school – Berwick Lodge Primary School, Melbourne, Australia (2017-19). Link to online article click here
- Te Raenga Ipurangi Education Trust, Otaki, Whānau facilitation (2017)
- Kempsy District Schools, New South Wales, Australia, Breaking the Cycle (2017)
- Ministry of Social Development, Wellington, Children’s Teams (2016-17)
- McKenzie Foundation, Waimahi School, Manurewa, Holiday Programme (2016)
- Abha, Saudi Arabia, Building Teacher Knowlege and Inquiry Learning (2016)
- North Otago Principals, Learning Trends and Inquiry Learning (2016)
- Ballina Schools, Casino, New South Wales, Australia, Learning Maps and Global Trends (2015)
Consider Infinity’s Direct-services
| Strategic support to Principals, Kāhui Ako Leads, Across School & Within School Teachers, Clusters of schools, Regional Ministry Leaders and Indigenous Iwi leaders. |
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| Theme | Overview |
| Leadership Advice | Infinity provides strategic advice to leaders at all tiers in the system. National, regional and local leaders are deciding on the right mix of strategies for equity and excellence in student learning and wellbeing. Strategic decision-making is no easy matter. On the one hand, decisions centre on supporting young people to capitalise on the opportunities of our tech-savvy modern world. Supporting students to capture those opportunities is about growing confidence and relevant competencies to live in the modern world. On the other hand, decisions about safety and wellbeing have come to the fore as leaders deal with multiple across-government policies and collaborations, providers scrambling for business, a teaching force stretched to the max and parents concerned for their children’s futures. The prediction has proven to be accurate that our world would become more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Global calamities, such as terrorism, climate change and, most recently the COVID-19 pandemic, have impacted our entire world. Having a highly-qualified and experienced sounding-board will help to deal with the highs and lows in decision-making about learning that leaders at all tiers in the system will face as we move further into the 21st century. Safety, wellbeing and collaborative alliances are paramount to success for all children. |
| Safety and Wellbeing | Infinity Learn Ltd has created a strategic alliance with Positively Psychology Ltd. Dr Jean Annan and Sabine Stienert-Parker will support you to grow practical understandings about positive psychology and neuroscience for teachers, students and whānau. Go to https://www.positivelypsychology.co.nz/ for more information. Contact Jean and Sabine to design workshops and professional learning opportunities for your school, Kāhui Ako and community partners. |
| Collaborative Alliances | Positive collaborative alliances contribute to safety and wellbeing. Schools as organisations need positive alliances, as do teachers, students, families and whanau. Infinity facilitators, Brian and Mary, are renowned world-wide for their creative innovation in supporting schools and community organisations to form collaborative alliances.
https://www.oecd.org/education/schooling-redesigned-9789264245914-en.htm Infinity Learn Ltd directors Dr Brian Annan and Mary Wootton feature in this video as the lead design and facilitation experts for the highly successful Learning and Change Networks (LCN) strategy. Mary also went on to support Science LCN networks. OECD studied the LCN strategy as part of the Innovative Learning Environments Project and included information about it in the publication: “Schooling Redesigned Towards Innovative Learning Systems.” Brian and Mary were also prominent ‘expert partners’ in advising Leads, Across School Leads and Within School Leads in the Kāhui Ako – Communities of Learning policy. Their approach is to support Kāhui Ako teams to develop as community-led entities, to learn from one another within their communities and to learn from other colleagues across Kāhui Ako teams. Networking and collegial learning among the 25 communities was remarkable. Here is a video about the concept of collective advantage and how it relates to Kāhui Ako. Infinity used the concept in regional fora and national presentations to assure leaders that expertise and knowledge lies within and across their communities. The leadership art is to discover that internal expertise and spread it laterally so that all students benefit (link to blog about collective advantage https://infinitylearn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Collective-Advantage-blog-Final.pdf). External expertise is not dismissed by any means, it’s best to engage external experts a little further down the track as local leaders grow confidence to contribute to their community. |
PLEASE NOTE: Direct-to-school costs are totally negotiable depending on context and location. Range from $600.00+GST per half day to $1,200.00+GST per full day.
