Amelia Green, Cranbourne Primary School
Within two years of arriving at Cranbourne Primary School, Amelia Green is achieving outstanding learning and wellbeing outcomes for her students and inspiring an entire school community.
Cranbourne Primary School serves a diverse, lower-income community and has a higher proportion of both Koorie students and culturally and linguistically diverse students, including non-English speaking children and students with ongoing experiences of trauma.
Amelia has made her diverse classroom a culturally relevant, safe, and supportive place where all children can improve their learning and develop competency in literacy, speaking, reading, and listening.
Applying current educational research around phonics instruction and using data-informed screening and benchmarking, she has worked hard with her Professional Learning Community to evaluate the effectiveness of her methods: Amelia has consistently achieved the highest performing student reading scores in the school.
Amelia’s teaching and classes are the gold standard that are inspiring other effective approaches to improving inclusion, literacy, and wellbeing across the school.
Ebony Peters, Bourchier Street Primary School
Early career teacher Ebony Peters’ dedication to student-centred learning, wellbeing and inclusion is creating positive cultural change at Bourchier Primary School.
Ebony's ability to implement effective and sustainable improvement plans and initiatives, grounded in research and modelled on best practice, is centred on students and inclusive of staff, and is made evident in the school’s growing culture of wellbeing and inclusion.
Whether initiating a student-run podcast, implementing a new restorative practices policy, or leading a much-valued staff wellbeing initiative, Ebony is fostering a more resilient and understanding school culture by ensuring that the school remains responsive to the evolving needs of its community.
Ebony's positive and purposeful relationships with students, peers, parents, and the broader community, along with her dedicated engagement to developing inclusive and culturally responsive policies, practices, and plans for the school, are building a strong foundation for the school’s continued success and ongoing improvement.
Monique Camilleri, Werribee Primary School
Since arriving at Werribee Primary School in 2022, Monique Camilleri’s genuinely inclusive classroom teaching is ensuring every individual student feels valued and able to succeed.
Adapting curriculum materials to challenge students at their point of need, Monique expertly manages her diverse classroom by creating flexible groupings of students and giving regular formative and summative assessments to support cooperative learning, differentiated instruction, and the provision of timely feedback.
Monique's great capacity for communication with students and their parents builds her understanding of student’s strengths, interests, and motivations. Able then to determine a student’s specific needs and aspirations, she tailors her instruction to help them progress towards their individual learning goals.
Diligent in developing her knowledge and understanding of inclusion in the classroom, Monique is leading her peers in implementing initiatives that can determine the strengths, functional needs, and educational adjustments necessary to best support disability inclusion and wellbeing in every classroom.
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