Catherine Arnold commenced as David Scott School’s founding Principal in June 2017.
Catherine’s skill as an educational leader encompasses many disciplines including curriculum development, career education and counselling, strategy, leadership and applied learning. Her exemplary classroom teaching was acknowledged through the VCAA’s VCAL Teacher of the Year Award, bestowed in 2013.
Our school vision ensures that every member of the David Scott community feels supported, is treated with dignity, kindness and respect, and is celebrated for the individual contributions they make. The school’s holistic learning model encompasses a strength based, advantage thinking approach across pedagogy, wellbeing and pathways support and is underpinned by the extensive research support offered by the Brotherhood of St. Laurence’s research team.
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Catherine Arnold commenced as David Scott School’s founding Principal in June 2017.
Her experience spans more than two decades as an educator and educational leader in Government and Independent secondary schools across Victoria, and includes international educational experience in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Catherine’ passion to support young people at the margins of education began early in her career and has developed further through post graduate research in the areas of special educational needs and innovative educational approaches. Catherine’s skill as an educational leader encompasses many disciplines including curriculum development, career education and counselling, strategy, leadership and applied learning.
Her exemplary classroom teaching was acknowledged through the VCAA’s VCAL Teacher of the Year Award, bestowed in 2013.
Catherine was a lead educator in the global education initiative “New Pedagogies for Deep Learning”; involving 1000 schools worldwide seeking to advance educational reform and was also a lead teacher in the Asia Education Foundation’s Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement (BRIDGE) Program.
Closer to home, she continues to support best practice VCAL at a more local level as a member of the VCAA’s VCAL Quality Assurance Panel and as a current member of the Frankston Mornington Peninsula LLEN’s Board of Management. She is also a professional member of the Australian Centre for Career Education.
Catherine’s commitment to reengaging young people in sustainable and meaningful education and in developing educationally innovative models of learning ensures that her role as Principal of the David Scott School is a perfect fit.
The tailored approach of our David Scott School in educating young people who have become disengaged from the mainstream school system is yielding positive results, with a big expansion underway.
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