Abigail Graham

Abigail Graham (B.Sc., Grad. Dip. Ed., Grad. Dip. IT) is an experienced educator with over 25 years experience as a teacher and teacher leader. Her work is has included a focus on leadership coaching of school leaders in collaborative evidence-based team practice, facilitating teacher professional learning and coaching mathematics instruction with students of all ages. She also has extensive experience in school leadership roles and as a classroom teacher of mathematics, science and IT in secondary schools.

In 2007 she was awarded the Lindsay Thompson Fellowship in recognition of "Excellence in Educational Leadership." The Lindsay Thompson Fellowship is the highest award offered each year to an educational leader in the state of Victoria, Australia, to "promote action research and to disseminate exemplary and innovative teaching and learning practice for the benefit of all teachers." This Research Fellowship involved the study and shadowing of leadership teams in high performing schools in the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. The focus was on instructional models, coaching, and collaborative practice to strategically improve school and student performance data.

Abigail has a particular interest in developing cognitively powerful dialogue between leaders, teachers and students that links evidence to action in order to improve student-learning outcomes. Abby is currently Campus Principal in at Traralgon College, Victoria.