Our Presenters

Emma MacNamara

Emma leads the development of the SPAplatform software at SREAMS. She is an experienced teacher and a leading authority on analysing performance data to identify school strengths & weaknesses and set improvement targets. She works extensively with schools on designing effective assessment frameworks & policies.

Emma has gained an impressive reputation for her work in supporting schools to:

• read and interpret their student “point in time” performance data,
• read and interpret school trend data,
• evaluate school growth,
• use their data to plan for differentiated teaching, and
• use data one-on-one with individual students to set individual learning targets.

Philip Holmes-Smith

Philip is an experienced Secondary Teacher but is more widely known as one of Australia’s leading authorities on:

• analysing performance data to identify school strengths & weaknesses,
• setting improvement targets,
• writing and analysing assessments that identify each student’s learning needs, and
• comparing pre- and post-assessment data to monitor teaching effectiveness.