COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT 2026-2027

JACQUELINE MANSON - PRESIDENT

Jac Manison is an accomplished education leader, researcher and advocate with over 20 years of international experience in curriculum innovation, STEM education, digital transformation and teacher professional learning. Having worked across Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Vietnam, she brings extensive expertise in educational leadership, emerging technologies and future-focused pedagogies. As President of Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria (DLTV), Jac champions innovation and builds educator capability. She also facilitates RMIT University's STEM Educator Enhancement Program, supporting international educators to explore inquiry-based learning, design thinking and innovative STEM teaching practices. Currently undertaking doctoral research in AI-enabled social robots for teacher education, Jac is passionate about empowering educators to create engaging, authentic and future-focused learning experiences.

Catherine Newington - CO-VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY

Catherine is the ICT Educator Specialist at Australian Computing Society. She leads the ACS national program to support schools to implement the Digital Technologies Curriculum. Working with schools she creates resources that target the curriculum and support content knowledge growth. Lessons promote skills such as authentic learning, global connections, critical and creative thinking, collaboration and student driven learning. These resources are available for free via the ACS ICT Educators Community of Practice.

Catherine is a registered teacher with over 12 years’ experience in the classroom including 5 years as learning and teaching leader. She holds a postgraduate degree specialising in Education Technologies. This has tightened her knowledge of how pedagogical practices influence the potential of technology in education

COBY REYNOLDS - CO VICE PRESIDENT

With over 15 years of teaching and leadership experience in Australia, Dubai and Hong Kong.  Coby brings extensive expertise in supporting schools Digital Technology programs. His most recent position was the Head of Primary Technology at The Independent Schools Foundation Academy in Hong Kong. With a passion for all things learning and digital technology, Coby has implemented 1-to-1 device programs in Dubai and Hong Kong and has presented and held workshops on all aspects of digital learning in the U.A.E, Netherlands, Germany, Hong Kong and China. Coby is an Apple Professional Learning Specialist and holds a Master’s Degree in Education, specialising in Information Technology and Leadership (2016).

KIRSTY BRIDGE

Kirsty is a teacher and ICT Leader at St Patrick’s Primary School, Kilmore. She teaches Media Arts as a primary specialist subject and manages the Digital Technologies curriculum, working with teachers to integrate technology into their Inquiry units. She models and team teaches Digitech in the classroom and coaches teachers to become more confident using small technologies, coding and teaching Digital Literacy.
Kirsty has been teaching for 16 years, 10 of which have been in the Digital Technologies field. She has an Honours Degree in Multimedia Development.

Ian Fernee

Ian is a secondary school computing teacher at St. Patrick’s College Ballarat and has a zeal for teaching students to code and develop their computational thinking capabilities. In his role as the Head of Computing, Ian seeks to be innovative and creative in developing a rich Digital Technologies curriculum that encourages students to be resilient problem-solvers.

As the eLearning Coordinator at St. Patrick’s College, Ian wants to inspire and empower teachers to use technology in their curriculum areas to develop resonant learning experiences for their students. Ian is a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert and in 2018 was selected to go to the Microsoft E2 Conference in Singapore.