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Graham Marshall, B.A., Dip. Ed.

Graham Marshall Graham Marshall ia Senior Fellow (Honorary) in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. He has been involved in a variety of policy development and other projects, together with connected research, at a school, regional and state level in Victoria and interstate. He has been working on leadership development with Victorian and interstate school leaders since mid 2001 and with leadership development programs in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States. From 2001 to 2009 he has worked on a range of school improvement programs with a large number of schools and their leadership teams in both the Government and Catholic systems in Victoria. He has been working in the Leading Australia’s Schools program, a national executive leadership development program, with a Melbourne University team in conjunction with the Hay Group. He has authored and co-authored a number of papers on the issues of education provision and leadership and school improvement based on research and field work conducted in Victorian schools. Prominent among these is a paper on Education Precincts co-authored with Professor Jack Keating (2003) and a paper on Leadership Teams, co-authored with Dr. Jean Russell, Graeme Jane and Tony Mackay (2004). He has co-authored a book on Performance management “Better Schools, Better Teachers, Better Results” (2007) and co-authored a paper on high performing schools entitled “How our best performing schools come out on top: An examination of eight high performing schools” (2008) together with many other unpublished papers for DEECD.

He is a qualified school reviewer and has reviewed a number of schools in Victoria and is currently involved in a review of special education in Hong Kong. He has also been working on strategic policy areas relating to education provision in Victoria. Until July 2001 he was General Manager, Human Resources Division in the Victorian Department of Education Employment and Training. Before heading up Human Resources Division he was General Manager of the Professional and Leadership Development Centre and prior to that Acting General Manager School Programs Division. He has had 16 years experience as a secondary teacher.

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