Peter Fotheringham
Peter has an extensive background in Victorian education, ranging from classroom teaching through to school leadership. He manages the NCS school review and improvement programs, and is one of NCS's most experienced reviewers, having completed over 250 reviews for DET since 1996. These reviews have included diagnostic and extended diagnostic types and schools involved in the 2013-14 trials of the new framework. These schools cover all stages of schooling from early learning through senior secondary in all types of school year level range structures, regional locations and sizes. He is an accredited VRQA reviewer regularly completing reviews of schools and non-school providers against the Victorian Minimum Standards. He has extensive local and international experience in strategic thinking and planning, school review and improvement, instructional leadership, curriculum, teaching and learning projects and school governance.
As NCS review manager he has developed the NCS approach to school review and improvement through the use of evidence-based diagnostic tools. Peter is adept at establishing productive working relationships with principals, review panels, parents, teachers and other stakeholders. He has strong data analysis skills, frequently engaged by schools to provide insights into school performance. With his depth of experience he is able to assist schools identify strategies suited to their context and to build their internal capacity for improvement in student outcomes.
Peter’s extensive international experience includes work with the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) in Washington DC since 2001. In this role he regularly delivers professional learning programs, working with US school leadership teams on strategic thinking, planning, instructional leadership and improvement in student outcomes. Other recent work has included creation of Bastow Institute Leadership Modules in leading literacy and numeracy instruction, leading responsibly, and leading ethically, and managing national ATSI education programs and curriculum development for other national systems.
2014 and 2015 Peer Reviews
Ascot Vale Primary School
Athol Road Primary School
Bacchus Marsh College
Bacchus Marsh Primary School
Belle Vue Park Primary School
Bethal Primary School
Carisbrook Primary School
Castlemaine North Primary School
Chatham Primary School
Clifton Hill Primary School
Diamond Creek East Primary School
Drouin Secondary College
Eltham East Primary School
Fairfield Primary School
Glen Eira Secondary College
Glen Katherine
Glenroy Central Primary School
Greenhills Primary School
Highvale Secondary College
Lalor East Primary School
Lalor North Primary School
Lalor Primary School
Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College
Norris Bank Primary School
Portarlington Primary School
Preston West Primary School
Research Primary School
Rosehill Secondary College
Roxburgh College
Roxburgh Homestead Primary School
Roxburgh Rise Primary School
Strathmore Secondary College
Sunbury Heights Primary School
Sunbury Primary School
Werribee Primary School
Yarrambat Primary School
2014 and 2015 Priority Reviews
Bundoora Secondary College
Charles La Trobe P-12 College
Collingwood P-12 College
Debney Meadows Primary School
Gisborne Secondary College
Melton South Primary School
Narre Warren South P-12 College
Wyndham Central College