Christine Vale, Head of education, Scholastic Australia

Christine Vale is described as “an unsung heroine of education”, who has contributed exceptionally to education in Australia over many years. Her diligent work has equipped hundreds of thousands of students across the country with high-quality numeracy and literacy resources.

Recently, Vale collaborated on a numeracy resource, entitled PR1ME Mathematics, as a response to the increasing challenge of problem-solving being a focus of many schools’ mathematical blockers. She has fully linked the resource to the Australian national curriculum. Vale has taken the best of mathematical pedagogy from Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea, creating a tool that’s intended to function as a gateway for thousands of students and teachers to mathematical understanding and comprehension.