• Significant positive impact on technology use in education; locally, regionally, state wide, nationally, worldwide.
  
• Efforts to involve the community in the initiative or program to facilitate partnerships with business and/or legislative initiations to advance the use of technology in education.
  
• Works tirelessly to genuinely improve the quality of education.
  
• Integrates deliberate planning in an effort to improve education through the use of technology.

2016 Leader of the Year Award Winner - Kelly Bauer

2015 Leader of the Year Award Winner - Corrine Campbell

Corrine is principal of school for students with emotional & behavioural difficulties, GROWTH coach, education blogger & podcaster. She brings a wealth of education experience to all aspects of her professional work. Highly sought after keynote speaker and infectiously passionate advocate for social justice in education, Corrine has been involved in several aspects of digital leadership. She introduced and supported teachers in the use of class blogging; Google Apps for Education and Office 365. She began coding with student to enable collaboration and creativity as well as connecting them with a global community. In addition, Corrine spent eight years as ICT Coordinator for Balgowlah North Public School where she was responsible for supporting teachers in embedding e-learning throughout the curriculum.

At a local, state and national level, Corrine has facilitated professional learning for teachers in the use of social media to connect, share and learn as part of professional learning networks. She has held positions on the NSW Teachers Federation technology advisory committee that was involved in policy development  around the use of technology in schools across NSW. At a national level, Corrine co-founded and administered the @edutweetoz rotation curation twitter account, that provides a hub for professional connection and learning between educators across sectors around Australia.

Corrine co-founded and hosts the informative and popular Teachers Education Review podcast, which frequently features stories aimed at informing educators in best practice around embedding ICT in the curriculum. This podcast has a world wide audience.

2014 Leader of the Year Award Winner - Matt Esterman

Matt’s work is widely recognised both locally and internationally. He has a broad professional learning network and he was one of the first people Stephen Heppell contacted in Australia to talk through and work with him on his “Lindfield School of the Future Project”. Matt is sought out by both educational and industry professionals for his clear vision of how learning can be enhanced by technology. His tireless efforts have moved the TeachMeet movement from a very local one to a national professional development phenomenon. He is also an advisor to the EduTech Conference group, which is the largest Educational Technology conference in Australia. At a very local level, he established the Good Samaritan eLearning Group.

Matt has established firm links with all major industry vendors and a number of influential developers who regularly support his endeavours with both sponsorship and expertise.  He has also forged links with Social Ventures who are working with influential educators to help create better education and employment outcomes for disadvantaged Australians. 

He is also extremely generous with his time. He spends countless hours outside regular school times with his own students and it is extremely common to see him attend the many TeachMeets that occur throughout Sydney. He is a regular conference presenter and he is a sought after judge for a number of educational groups promoting tech industry start-ups.