Haydon Staines
Position Teaching Prinicpal
Organisation NT Department of Education
Location Gray, NT
Bio
Haydon is a fourth year teacher working as a Teaching Principal in the Northern Territory. He is passionate about indigenous education and contributing to closing the commonly referred to ‘gap’ between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Haydon is a current member of the Indigenous Curriculum Advisory Network which work collaboratively to provide advice and feedback from a cultural perspective on Indigenous Studies Modules and incorporating indigenous perspectives into the curriculum. He is also a part of the Future Leaders Network (FLN) which explores and provides recommendations to significant challenges identified by Chief Executives. A recent focus of Haydon’s has been indigenous representation in senior government positions and strategies to shift the existing pool of AO3/ AO4 into SOA1 and above positions.
In 2015 Haydon was awarded the Northern Territory’s Young Achievers Indigenous Educator’s award.
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