Suzanne Barry

Experienced curriculum and assessment specialist with a fifteen-year track record across tertiary, secondary, and enabling education. Strong expertise in the Australian Curriculum (F–10), developed through strategic work with teachers across jurisdictions and learning areas. Skilled in curriculum mapping, assessment design, and professional learning resource development. Recent projects include a First Nations-led planning framework with Professor Kevin Lowe and a GenAI-integrated course redesign at CQUniversity. Experienced in editorial leadership, ensuring quality, coherence, and collaboration across content teams.

• Current Australian Teacher Registration, South Australia, 627451, Queensland, 943169
• South Australia DHS WWCC- Cleared, SRN 1202-6667
• Completed Full RRHAN — Education and Care training, Tauondi Aboriginal Corporation
• The Science of Language and Reading: The Secondary School Perspective, La Trobe University
• Current First Aid certification, Stitches First Aid Education, HLTAID009 - Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation, HLTAID011 - Provide First Aid
• ARC Grant: Starting Young: Early Years Languages Learning in Australia, PhD Scholarship Award (Project ID: DP190102514)

• Led local implementation of Lowe & Galstaun’s conceptual planning model, showcased in ISQ’s Big Ideas series (2022) and adopted by multiple schools.
• Developed teacher reflection framework based on PhD research, now used by Catholic Education in in-service teacher training.
• Redesigned university preparatory course (CQU) to integrate GenAI literacies, curriculum alignment, and assessment scaffolding.
• Delivered professional learning programs and curriculum tools through Cactus Education Collective, supporting school-level assessment literacy and planning.

• Dr Peter Grainger, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Tertiary Access, University of Sunshine Coast, 0488 612 160, peter.grainger@usc.edu.au
• Gabriela Toth, Deputy Associate Dean, Operations, School of Access Education | Tertiary Education Division, CQUniversity Australia, +61 2 9324 5019, g.toth@cqu.edu.au
• Matt Foster, Deputy Principal (Secondary), Bwgcolman Community School, Palm Island, 0423 643 870, mfost115@eq.edu.au

• MLTAQ Conference, Innovative Practitioners, Innovative Practice. Intercultural teacher identities: Operationalising teacher skills and dispositions to develop global competence in students, and language engagement for life, 2022
• Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) Big Ideas Summit, Conceptual Planning with ‘Big Ideas’ – ‘Starting with the (conceptual) end in mind’, 2022
• AFMLTA International Languages Conference, Understanding intercultural language teaching: Links between theory and practice, 2019
• Languages Road Show, Intercultural competence in the Australian Curriculum: Languages, 2019