John Hogan is co-founder of Big Picture Learning Australia (BPLA). Started in 2006 it is a not-for profit working with schools and other organisations to implement an innovative design for learning and school. For 25 years John worked as a primary teacher, a secondary mathematics teacher and in pastoral care before working with the Education Department of Western Australia. There his roles included: superintendent of mathematics education (K-12), school development, research, national curriculum development projects and new schools policy. Since 1997 John has run an education consulting business - Redgum Consulting Pty Ltd - developing innovative approaches to leading school development, classroom observation, peer support, and numeracy. He helped lead the work of the Australian National Schools Network for nearly 20 years. John has extensive experience, expertise and training in consulting, coaching and supervision; organisation, school and network development; action learning and group work; strategic and project planning, project management; curriculum development; and research and evaluation. His interest in numeracy particularly the mathematical demands for learning across the curriculum, in training and workplaces has been a constant thread through all of the above years.