{"id":526,"date":"2019-10-14T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/?post_type=article&#038;p=526"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T23:08:26","slug":"presidents-report-4","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/article\/presidents-report-4\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A genuine privilege of being Chapter President is that you choose the recipient of the President\u2019s Award \u2013 honouring the member or members who have made the most outstanding contribution to our Chapter over the last year or two.<\/p>\n<p>I have been very fortunate to be supported by a great team of enthusiastic professionals on the Chapter and Conference Committees \u2013 any one of whom, would be worthy of this recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The Educate Plus members I chose this time, have given sacrificially and selflessly to ensure each us has the edge we need to excel in this wonderful profession.<\/p>\n<p>These two, with their quite unique yet equally effervescent personalities are passionate about their personal causes and of course educational advancement. They have my utmost respect, and the respect of everyone on the Committee \u2013 leading by example, getting things done behind the scenes without fuss, honouring the ideals we value in the independent schools\u2019 sector.<\/p>\n<p>Displaying extraordinary commitment &#8211; personal and professional sacrifice \u2013 including balancing wedding preparations, study, work and family commitments &#8211; to ensure the best possible professional development of the broader Educate Plus Chapter membership \u2013 through the amazing EDGE Sydney 2019 \u2013 Challenge Your Mind Conference.<\/p>\n<p>It gave me a great deal of please to honour your Conference Co-Chairs, Lyn O\u2019Neill and Julia Glass with this Award, as we celebrated the outstanding success of yet another memorable Chapter Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: inherit !important\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-490 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/06\/David-O-copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/06\/David-O-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/06\/David-O-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/06\/David-O-copy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>David Osborne<br \/>\n<\/span>NSW\/ACT Chapter President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/EPEdgeConference_Syd_0919-202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/EPEdgeConference_Syd_0919-202.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/EPEdgeConference_Syd_0919-202-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/EPEdgeConference_Syd_0919-202-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/Pres-award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/Pres-award.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/Pres-award-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/10\/Pres-award-192x150.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genuine privilege of being Chapter President is that you choose the recipient of the President\u2019s Award \u2013 honouring the member or members who have made the most outstanding contribution to our Chapter over the last year or two. I have been very fortunate to be supported by a great team of enthusiastic professionals on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-526","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}