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Dorothy
Hoddinott
Principal
Holroyd High School
“You need to be active
in things, you need to put
your hand up, you need
to participate and you need
to remember other people
when you are being a leader
because being a leader isn’t
necessarily being an autocrat,
it’s actually engaging other
people to come along on that
trip with you, on that journey.”
Human rights
advocate
Dorothy Hoddinott AO began her teaching career
in 1965. Following stints teaching in London,
then Milan, she returned to Australia and began
working as an English as a second language (ESL)
teacher in 1975. She was promoted to Head
Teacher, then Deputy Principal positions,
before becoming Principal of Holroyd High
School in 1995.
As President of the Association of the Teachers
of English as a Foreign Language (NSW),
Ms Hoddinott played a key role in establishing
a national body to advocate for ESL education.
In 2002, she established the Friends of Zainab
scholarship trust to support young asylum
seeker, Zainab Kaabi, to complete her schooling.
Ms Hoddinott was appointed Officer of the
Order of Australia in 2008. She was awarded
the Australian Human Rights Medal (2014),
an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Western
Sydney University (2014) and the Australian
College of Educators’ Medal (2012)—the first
practising school educator to receive the award.
Between 2010 and 2017 Ms Hoddinott served
two terms as a Fellow of the University of Sydney
Senate and has been Pro-Chancellor since 2015.
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