Many thanks from the SWIF Team for your work with us last Thursday. The feedback has been nothing but positive. Most comments (from the participating school leaders) related to how practical your session was and how easy it was to relate the content to their own context. They also appreciated your sense of humour and down-to-earth nature.

There was also a strong indication from participants that the whole structure of the day was valuable – from your session with the whole group, to collaborating around lag/lead data with schools working on a similar improvement area, and then onto data plans with the different levels of leadership flowed well. Much of that is thanks to you for your thinking and planning the different aspects of the day with us.

We really appreciate all the time, effort, and insights you provided to make the Forum a great day for our schools and we pass on our thanks from MAC Southern Region staff as well as our school leaders.

I really appreciated your presentation to the IST team earlier in the week. I found your approach refreshingly honest and unambiguous, if not entertaining at times.

More importantly it demystified for me the current almost obsession with data that seems to have pervaded education. People throw it around as a catch-all which I guess worries me a bit particularly if their knowledge of statistical processes and tools are limited. You clarified this perfectly and eased my concern considerably.

Selena Fisk was the absolute bomb.com – loved her presentation to us at Beenleigh. I wanted to let you personally know.. she’s amazing.

Thank you for your work with us last week, it was life-giving, challenging and a great opportunity for us as teams and as a system of schools.

This week already I have been in a number of schools and the feedback and positivity from the days with the Primary Principals has been great to hear.

Thank you for sharing the resources with us as well. I look forward to connecting with you about future opportunities to work together.

I just wanted to personally thank you for the past 2 days. I have come away excited about how my team can use and analyse data.... your wealth of knowledge and delivery of this was second to none.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for the work you did with us on Monday. I've received lots of positive feedback from staff and it will surely help us in our next steps in using data to inform our teaching.

We were so impressed with how Selena assisted us on our data journey at the conference, that we then engaged her services to work with our staff, to work with our school and classroom data. This process helped us work together as a group to view data in a positive light, and we are continuing to book Selena's services... One staff member commented that their view on data had completely changed after engaging with her through her PD at our school.

In a climate where we can be inundated by data, Selena's presentation really helped make practical sense of the importance, relevance and power of data. Our staff left the Professional Development session feeling inspired and passionate about using data to inform teaching. I would highly recommend Selena to both primary and secondary schools.