About Effective Schools
Wendy Bean is the director of Wendy Bean and Associates Pty Ltd -the supplier of professional development activities and materials for www.effectiveschools.com.au
Wendy is an education consultant working nationally and internationally. She works in schools with leadership teams and teachers to support postitive change in student outcomes. She lectures part-time for the University of Wollongong and was the Project Manager for the Australian Government Literacy and Numeracy Summer School (2008) which was a consortium between the University of New England, Edith Cowan University, ALEA and led by the University of Wollongong. In January 2008 225 teachers attended Wollongong University and 75 attended Edith Cowan University for the Summer School.
Wendy taught in the Australian school system for 15 years and was a Literacy Consultant in the Riverina Region for two years. She has also worked as the national consultant for an educational publisher in Australia.
She has worked on several national government education projects including National Reading Day, designed and implemented a range of professional development courses and worked in classrooms with teachers.
She is an active member of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association and is Treasuer of the ALEA North Local Council.
On behalf of Wollongong University, between 1993-2002 Wendy conducted training for Frameworks in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the United States and acted as a consultant to the University of Wollongong for Frameworks Australia.
Wendy regularly presents at local, national and international conferences and has written several books for teachers. Her published works include the Frameworks Spelling Course as well as several books on teaching spelling and developing writing and spelling curriculum. Her most recent publication, Writing Instruction K-6: Understanding Process Purpose and Audience was co-authored with Dr Jan Turbill. It was published by RC Owens, USA, and available online - see Purchase box to the right or through ALEA.
In 2001 she was awarded an Australian Research Grant to complete an Honours Master of Education through the University of Wollongong. The topic of her thesis was the Relationship Between Teacher Learning and School Culture.
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