The NEW Schools
Narrabeen Sports High School
Principal Kerry Rose
Narrabeen Lakes Public School
Principal Jim Delaney
Narrabeen North Public School
Principal Paul Wood
Elanora Heights Public School
Principal Anne Poole
The Showcase Evening
featured:
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Food and drink, and an opportunity to network
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A very entertaining guest speaker, Roberto Parada, who spoke on bullying, and managing challenging behaviour in schools and the community (see below for
more on Roberto)
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Presentations from the NEW schools about their
educational strategies.
Guests
included Trevor Fletcher (Deputy
Director-General Schools), Maurice Brunning (School Education
Director), Julie Hegarty (Pittwater
Councillor), and David Hope (Regional P&C
President), along with P&C’s, teachers
and other community members.
Roberto
Parada BA (Hons), MA (Psych),
Psychology Doctoral candidate, UWS; is a registered Psychologist in NSW.
Under the supervision of Professors Marsh and Craven, he is the Project
Manager of one of New South Wales ’
largest projects investigating the psychological effects of bullying and the
effectiveness of interventions to prevent it. He was awarded a highly
prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) to pursue this research
that will form the basis of his PhD. With a background in education and
psychology, Mr Parada has worked in child and
adolescent psychiatry and has overseen the evaluation of numerous projects at
the Department of Child and Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Westmead Hospital including the Positive Parenting
Program (Triple P)—a NSW strategy for the prevention of conduct
disorders. He has clinical experience in working with victims of bullying and
has worked with both parents and teachers in the implementation of
anti-bullying interventions.
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