Ms Kerry-Anne Hoad is Manager of the Centre for Professional Learning at the
Australian Council for Educational Research, and Manager of the ACER International
Institute. 

Ms Hoad's role at ACER includes the management of the Centre for Professional
Learning, ACER's International Institute and ACER's annual Research Conference. 

Prior to joining ACER in 2001, she managed a Commonwealth funded Resource, Advisory and
Training Agency that supported the inclusion of children with disabilities into
mainstream educational programs. She designed and delivered training programs for the
national implementation of a $30 million Special Needs Subsidy Scheme. 

Ms Hoad has worked in the UK at the University of North London as a course writer,
lecturer and tutor. She wrote two curriculum books for this University - "Working
with Children with Special Educational Needs" and "Social and Philosophical
Perspectives on Early Childhood Education". Kerry-Anne has worked in education in
Australia for over 20 years at all levels - early childhood, primary, secondary, special
education and tertiary education - and across all school sectors -government, catholic
and independent. 

In the tertiary sector, she has written course materials for the University of Ballarat
and provided sessional lectures for the University of Ballarat, University of Melbourne,
Swinburne University, Holmesglen TAFE and Chisholm TAFE. Her areas of research and
practical interest are disability studies, deafness studies, early childhood education
and adult learning.

Articles

Building bridges : professional development in science education, Educare News (2002)

This article outlines two innovative professional development programs designed specifically to address current challenges for...

 
All children can play : supporting children with disabilities (with H Geers), Every Child (1998)

All children, including those with disabilities, need to play in order to develop essential life...

 

Unpublished Papers

An examination of the communicative behaviour of mothers and children following the child's cochlear implantation, MEd (1996)

It has been suggested that some elements of maternal speech and language input to hearing...

 

Reports

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A Digital Education Revolution : Realising the Possibilities, Managing the Realities (with Linda Rosman and Gerry White), Digital Learning Research (2008)

This report presents the outcomes of the series of Symposia 'A Digital Education Revolution; realising...

 

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The 'Third Wave' project : report to investigate effective 'Third Wave' intervention strategies for students with learning difficulties who are in mainstream schools in years 4, 5 and 6 (with Ken Rowe; Andrew Stephanou; and Australia. Dept of Education, Science and Training (DEST)) (2007)

The purpose of this project was to conduct research aimed at improving the literacy and...

 
Working out what works : a professional development program to support teachers to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for students with learning difficulties in years 4, 5 and 6 (with Australian Council for Educational Research) (2005)

The key purposes of this project are to improve the literacy and numeracy outcomes of...