January 2008

Jeremy Kedian is the manager and senior consultant of the Educational Leadership Centre (ELC) in the School of Education at the University of Waikato. The ELC works with large numbers of educational leaders. They have included working with a range of principals from first time, inexperienced to experienced practitioners. In addition to this, he has initiated a development series for middle leaders. In addition to working with schools and higher education institutions, he also acts as a consultant to commercial organisations on leadership issues.

Each year Jeremy initiates various developmental programmes with colleagues. These include workshop and seminar series, international study tours and visits, tailored development programmes for educational leaders and exchange programmes for principals. His areas of expertise include leadership and organisational development, leadership coaching, strategic and futures development, change management and principal develpment. He has been involved in the development of educational leadership and management in schools and the higher education sector since 1983 and regularly speaks at workshops and conferences in New Zealand and overseas.

The Ministry of Education will be running Learning@school 2008, its annual Information and Communication Technologies conference at the Energy Events Centre in Rotorua from 19-22 February 2008.

CORE Education, the educational research and development organisation based in Christchurch, is contracted to manage the conference for the Ministry.

Conference focus
A key focus of the conference is establishing a cohesive network for ICT PD Clusters for the next three-year period for the 2008 group of clusters. It is also a major opportunity to develop a wider network for the 2006 and 2007 clusters. The conference programme reflects the best that is currently happening in ICT in New Zealand and features research and developments from overseas.

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