Aerie College board member/leader experience briefs

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Establishing Principal - Teaching

Teacher registration remains current

Teaching experience – SA Education Dept.

• Upper primary & Lower secondary including tech studies
• Advisory teacher, School camping including management of in-service training
• Seconded to Police Greys to prepare guidelines for riding school camps
• Member outdoor education Project team – including developing SA aquatics centers

Teaching experience - After education department.

• Trainer assessor First aid with Royal Life saving society & Board member.
• Yachting Australia Sailing Master and rescue boat master
• Commercial Coxswain and Master Inland waters (Large riverboats) crew training
• Established and operated Residential Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Goolwa with escorted canoe expeditions into the Coorong National Park. (Managed an Average of 1,000+ students on camp each year) The site was a registered school for 1995, but not enough enrolments (16) for viability.
• 2004+ Delivering Rec. Boat License Certificate courses (3,000+ certificates issued to date)

Home Stay Parent, past 16 years - International senior high school students. Two onboard now.

• Homestay Parent for 50+ senior high school kids, boys and girls, in my home over past 18 years. 

Assistant Principal -  Teaching

Teacher registration remains current

Teaching experience – SA Education Dept.

• Primary school Teacher, Principal, 
• Lecturer in Education (18 years part-time Uni SA), 
• Manager, Home Education. 
• Team leader Teachers Union campaign for merit selection and helped design the Merit Selection procedures for the Education Department, SA. 
• Team Leader JESIFA project, a joint union-education department project which informed all teachers in SA about the problems with teacher mobility and promotion and led to the 4-year compulsory transfer system. 
• Team member English Course review for the Education Department and chaired the implementation committee for ELIC (Early Literacy Inservice Course) and LLIMY (Language and Literacy in the Middle Years) teacher in-service courses. 
• Director of ACEL (Excellence in education) since its inception in 1978 
• Member Education Department's Change Review Team for Volunteer Support. 
• I have supported various school leadership teams for the past 21 years, specializing in change management processes.
• Introduced Royal Life saving courses to the SACE Community study options

Community experience

• Chair of the Royal Lifesaving Society SA & Federal Board member for 14 years. 
• Planned & implemented DEET Lifeguards course in 2001 and ran the course for 4 years. 
• Rotary Club President several times

Board member input - VET to Diploma

Managing director RTO 4849  

W: enablecollege.edu.au 

SCOPE: CHILD CARE | AGED CARE | DISABILITY SUPPORT | SHORT COURSES | 

A: Level 2, 47 South Terrace ADELAIDE 5000 

T: 1300 157 750 | M: 0413 896 905 

Board member  - Post Secondary Education & Commercial industry experience - Admin

• Administrator and coordinator- 15 years in total, various institutions and domains.
• Designed, built and maintained my own databases, financial analysis models and spreadsheets.
• Well-practiced people skills include listening, negotiation, questioning and seeking resolutions.
• Ability to lead, supervise and motivate small to medium size project teams.
• Proven and demonstrated high level of verbal and written communication skills, published over 12 scientific papers.
• Managed 3,000 onshore and offshore students per annum in a large University environment.

Discussions with the SAFA personnel as of 17/09/2024 indicate that the School Loans to $10,000,000 is still  in place. The date for the next round in 2025 has not been identified. It is clear that these funds will not be available for start of Aerie College, Term one of 2025.  

SAFA discussion indicate the proposals below are acceptable once the next round of funding opens.

We will search for other sources of short term finance to start the school.

$800,000 PV Mundoo - "Time Out"    School camp platform for "Time Out" for sale in Mildura. 

$100,000 Safety Escort Tug (Ex Navy) Including refit and truck relocation

$2,500,000 - Home Campus - several available, for sale at about this price.

$1,000,000 - Estimate for wilderness teaching and Administration equipment, property refits for education purpose, and incidentals. 

$500,000 working capital and incidentals

$5,000,000 Requested line of credit from SAFA to get the new school project underway.  

SAFA can have 1st mortgage protection over the properties if needed. As soon as we get underway we expect considerable unsecured investments from families in our Loan License to Occupy program. We can attract attract DGR donations, and source every possible grant for youth at risk.