HAYLEY DUREAU

Hayley Dureau is Assistant Principal at Mentone Girls’ Secondary College. She has been recognised at state and national levels as a passionate and forward-thinking mathematics teacher and educational leader. Hayley has shared her work in Student Voice with educators in Australia, and worldwide. Passionate about enhancing student learning by improving relationships between staff and students, Hayley’s work gave students at Mount Waverley Secondary College in Melbourne’s East the opportunity to provide professional learning for staff, drive elements the school’s strategic plan, design feedback tools which teachers use regularly, and allowed students to provide feedback and engage in powerful conversations around their learning, with their teachers. Hayley has a Master of Instructional Leadership and is a doctoral candidate at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Her research explores how teachers use feedback from students to inform their practice. In 2017 Hayley travelled to the USA to undertake studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and while in America she presented to the Student Voice conference at the University of Vermont. In 2018, she travelled to Denmark to undertake applied research in Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics teaching, and Student Voice. Hayley was awarded a national Commonwealth Bank Teaching Fellowship in 2021 and received the George Alexander Fellowship from the International Specialised Skills institute in 2017. She was named Outstanding Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Department of Education in Victoria in 2016, and National Secondary Mathematics Teacher of the Year by the Australian Mathematics and Sciences Institute in 2018. She was also awarded the 2015 Victorian Student Representative Council’s Teacher Advisor Award in 2015 and the Australian Council of Educational Leaders New Voice in Educational Leadership Award in 2016.