Professor Brian J. Caldwell - Educational Transformations Pty Ltd

Professor Brian J. Caldwell will be speaking on transforming education.

Brian J. Caldwell is Managing Director of Educational Transformations Pty Ltd in Melbourne and Associate Director of iNet (Global) (International Networking for Educational Transformation) of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in England.

From 1998 to 2004 he served as Dean of Education at the University of Melbourne where he is currently Professorial Fellow. His previous appointments include Head of Education Policy and Management (1995-1998) at the University of Melbourne where he took up an appointment in 1990; and Head of Teacher Education (1988-1999) and Dean of Education (1989-1990) at the University of Tasmania. International work over the last 25 years includes more than 450 presentations, projects and other professional assignments in or for 38 countries or jurisdictions on six continents.

In addition to more than 100 published papers, chapters and monographs, Brian Caldwell is author or co-author of books that helped guide educational reform in several countries, most notably the trilogy on self-managing schools: The Self-Managing School (1988), Leading the Self-Managing School (1992) and Beyond the Self-Managing School (1998), each with Jim Spinks. Re-imagining Educational Leadership was published in 2006. Raising the Stakes: From Improvement to Transformation in the Reform of Schools (2008) is his fourth collaboration with Jim Spinks. Why not the Best Schools? What we have learned from outstanding schools around the world with Jessica Harris will be published in October 2008.