About Us

The con­sult­ing team at IST offer a range of Pro­fes­sion­al Learn­ing options, catered specif­i­cal­ly for your school or region. The Pro­fes­sion­al Learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties include (but are not lim­it­ed to) areas such as cur­ricu­lum, ped­a­gogy, assess­ment and dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion; school cul­ture, edu­ca­tion­al lead­er­ship, build­ing teacher capac­i­ty and review­ing school data.

Pro­fes­sion­al Learn­ing can be deliv­ered via:

• One-on-one coach­ing and fol­low up coach­ing ses­sions and support
• A small group of your col­leagues from your school
• Whole staff sin­gle school sessions
• Mul­ti­ple small/​whole group school ses­sions across the term/​year
• Webi­na­rs

To arrange your bespoke pro­fes­sion­al learn­ing ses­sions, please con­tact the con­sul­tants via our con­tact page.

Each year we also run a wide range of webi­nar based PL oppor­tu­ni­ties. They can be accessed through the events page.

IST admin­is­ters and dis­trib­utes grants to Tas­man­ian inde­pen­dent schools for a num­ber of gov­ern­ment fund­ing programs. 

These include:

• The Choice and Afford­abil­i­ty Fund (CAF)
• The Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment Cap­i­tal Grants Pro­gram (CGP)
• The State Cap­i­tal Assis­tance pro­gram (SBGA)
• The Loan Inter­est Sub­sidy pro­gram (LIS)
• The Nation­al School Chap­lain­cy pro­gram (NSCP)
• The Spe­cial Learn­ing Needs pro­gram (SLN)
• Ear­ly Child­hood and Kinder­garten fund­ing (ECD)
• The State COVID Safe Schools fund­ing (COVID)

To dis­cuss this fur­ther con­tact our Finance and Admin Man­ag­er.

Tony Cre­han has been the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Inde­pen­dent Schools Tas­ma­nia since 2003. He is a strong advo­cate for choice, diver­si­ty and equi­ty in edu­ca­tion to best meet the needs of every child. Tony came to IST with exten­sive busi­ness expe­ri­ence as a man­age­ment con­sul­tant and CEO, direc­tor and chair­man of pub­lic and pri­vate com­pa­nies. In his time with IST, Tony has over­seen the pro­vi­sion of an expand­ing range of pro­grams and ser­vices that assist schools with new ways of adapt­ing to the chal­lenges of mod­ern edu­ca­tion. The IST Exec­u­tive Direc­tor is also a direc­tor of Inde­pen­dent Schools Aus­tralia (ISA)

Pres­i­dent
Coun­cil Mem­ber
Tar­remah Stein­er School

Trea­sur­er
Busi­ness Man­ag­er
Leigh­land Chris­t­ian School

Board Mem­ber
Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer
Chris­t­ian Schools Tasmania

Vice Pres­i­dent
Co-Prin­ci­pal
The Launce­s­ton Prepara­to­ry School

Board Mem­ber
Prin­ci­pal
Pere­grine

Board Mem­ber
Prin­ci­pal
Devon­port Chris­t­ian School