Principals’ Forum - Marsden Road Public School - Manisha Gazula
Recording
Background
We were excited to welcome back Principals and APs/DPs for our first Principals’ Forum for 2023, on the 3rd of May.
We will hear from Manisha Gazula, the Principal of Marsden Road Public School.
We will hear from the team at Riverwood Public School, including Principal Anne Davis.
Manisha Gazula is a passionate educator with a fundamental focus on improving student outcomes. Her belief that the students should leave primary school, proficiently literate and numerate so they can successfully access future learning and opportunities, drives the decisions she makes as a leader. Under her leadership, Marsden Road PS has established systematic methods for interpreting evidence to identify effective teaching and learning pedagogy which has led to significant improvement to student outcomes. She is a strong advocate for explicit teaching of foundation literacy and numeracy skills and refrains from following fads in education. She has contributed to educational networks and has modelled instructional and collaborative leadership through coaching and mentoring of early career principals and aspiring leaders. Manisha has presented at several forums that include the Australian Council for Educational Leaders, EduTech and more recently at the Sydney Morning Herald Summit.
In 2018, Manisha received the 2018 South Regional Directorate Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Principal in Liverpool Network. In 2019, Marsden Road Public School received the Executive Directors Award for significant contributions towards advancing the strategic goals of the NSW Department of Education.
About the Host
Steven Capp, Principal
Steven Capp is the Principal of Bentleigh West Primary School in Melbourne, which has become recognised for its adoption of evidence- based teaching practices, particularly in the area of reading and mathematics. He has worked across the primary and secondary school sectors as an educational leader for the past 15 years. He has a Masters of School Leadership from Melbourne University and has worked with school leaders to explore bridging the gap from research to practice.
