Biography
Ormond
Fannon, Dip. Ad., M.Ed., FRSA
Accreditation Visit Leader for CIS - Council of International
Schools
Principal Examiner for IBO - International Baccalaureate
Organization
Ex. Business Manager and Executive Director for resource
Development at St. Julian's School Portugal
Ormond Fannon is an independent consultant to schools worldwide.
His extensive experience in all aspects of school management has
taken him to almost every continent as an Accreditation Visit
leader for the Council of International Schools. His involvement
with the (E)CIS accreditation services dates from 1997 when his own
school, St. Julian's School in Portugal, first entered the process
and when he first participated in an ECIS Team Visit (to IS
Baghdad, Iraq). Since then he has represented CIS regularly,
whether chairing Visiting Teams or carrying out 5 Year Visits to
schools in Europe, Middle East and Australia. He has also acted as
a report reader/advisor for CIS since September 2007 and, since
then, has annually participated in CIS AVL (Accreditation Visit
Leaders) workshops.
Ormond is also highly experienced in the field of Arts Education
(he is Principal Examiner and ex-Deputy Chief Examiner for the IB -
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Visual Arts and
was the IB faculty member responsible for the IB Online Curriculum
(1998 - 2010). He has lead workshops for the IB in the Netherlands,
Germany, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, USA and UAE.
He has also presented in IB, COBISEC, INSEA, ECIS and TAISI
conferences in The Netherlands, England, France, Hungary, Czech
Republic, Norway, Portugal, India, Switzerland and the USA.
Comments and well-wishes from
friends & colleagues:
"All over the World there are people
who are proud to have had their eyes opened, creativity stimulated
and their skills honed by his sklls. We needed a Head of Continuing
Education, he was appointed and proved to be the most exciting
appointment I ever made in all my years as Head. His energy
and creativity were astonishing. Ideas flowed, and more than that,
action followed. Many art staff in particular are imaginative and
dynamic, but in my experience so very few
combine that with prompt and expert delivery and a business brain
second to none."
David Styan, OBE. Headmaster
St.Julian's School , Portugal 1994 - 2000.
"Ormond, your professional support is so
very much appreciated. One of the priceless skills of any manager
is to encourage development in your staff and knowing when the time
is right to let them stand on their own two feet and develop even
further. You have this enviable skill in bucket loads and I thank
you from the bottom of my heart."
David Pendlebury, Head of Design
and Technology, St. Julian's School
"I began working with Ormond eleven
years ago in the Continuing Education Department. From our very
first week together, l realized two very important things: l would
learn a lot from Ormond and l had better not interrupt him when he
was busy!"
Catarina Coelho, Co-Curricular
Activities Coordinator, St. Julian's.
Management gurus tend to insist that
no-one in any organisation is indispensable or irreplaceable. Let
us hope that this is so, for the truism is about to be put to a
severe test. Ormond Fannon is leaving us for a "retirement" which
is likely to be anything but.
David Smith, Headmaster St.
Julian's School - June 2011