Wise Ones Australia

Education Managers

WiseOnes is a support program for gifted children in their own schools. The service is provided by very experienced teachers who are parents of gifted children themselves.

WiseOnes Education Managers must have a proven record of wisdom to lead such a team.

All our Education Managers live in the areas they serve so that they know the people and the culture of their community and are easy to approach. WiseOnes leaders understand the principal’s role, the class teachers and the parents and children as we have been in all those roles ourselves.

Being able to understand all the points of view is a great advantage to both our teachers and the schools whose needs we serve.

Pat Slattery

Pat, a retired school principal, realized that there was one group of children for whom it was very difficult to provide. Her own experience and her children and grandchildren had found that being a different learner was not easy in a one size fits all environment.

Fast learners need more resources, faster paced lessons and more complex challenges in their learning experiences.

With other experienced and mentally-keen educational leaders Pat has built WiseOnes to a national service for schools and their fast learning pupils. WiseOnes provides the teachers, the appropriate curriculum and the resources for these small groups. Pat upgraded her qualifications to include the COGE from GERRIC in 2000. She attends national, state and world Conferences in Gifted Education and Educational Leadership.

Claudine Berman

Claudine was a retired principal when she saw an advertisement for educational leaders to work with WiseOnes. In 1998 she started to serve the needs of fast learners near where she lived. Now there are hundreds of children being assisted through her efforts.

Claudine loves the way her team of teachers and the WiseOnes programs make the children happier and more confident in their own natural identity. She is very empathetic with parents of gifted children and is the daughter, mother and grandmother of fast learners.

Pat Rogers-Truscott

Pat Truscott

When Pat Rogers-Truscott decided to retire after more than a decade as principal she thought that WiseOnes would give her a great interest and provide a way of serving needs that she recognized as important and unmet. Pat joined the WiseOnes team in 1999 and has hundreds of children enjoying the programs presented by her team of teachers.Pat’s consistent, outstanding service to the schools to which she contracts shows in the happiness of the children and the way they always want to come back to WiseOnes. Principals enjoy her collegial experience and know how as she understands their position.

Pat has built a team of several teachers. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of WiseOnes all of their talents are used for the benefit of the children.

Pat won the Licensee of the Year award for 2009 as her business name Access Re-ed Services P/L.

Angela Katsos

Angela’s first contact with WiseOnes was as a teacher. Then her son joined the WiseOnes program. Angela felt called to take extra responsibility in making the programs available to more children as she saw the benefits for her own children.

Now she is Education Manager for schools on the north side of the Yarra River with some schools started and more schools interested.

Viv Byrnes

As our first Education Manager in NSW, Viv is now more able to use her Masters in Gifted Education to assist the children in this large outer area of Blue Mountains, Penrith and Blacktown.

Viv is well known for her previous efforts to provide for the fast learners. She is the mother of two fast learners.

Christine Ryan

Christine has taught in three states and is a specialist Music teacher as well as having taught adult business people to improve their businesses. She also has experience as an Assistant Principal so is empathetic to school needs.

Christine is providing for well over 100 children in her Eastern areas of Melbourne. Christine joined the WiseOnes team in 2004. In 2008 Christine completed her Masters in Gifted Education and she attends the VAGTC offerings.