Annalise Gehling is a Melbourne-based Educational Planning Consultant with Education Design International. She is passionate about respectful, authentic, relationship-based pedagogy and is an expert in school-building analysis for 21st-century teaching and learning.
Annalise joined the EDI team in 2006, and since then has worked on National School Planning Standards in Abu Dhabi, trained government officials on School Facilities Assessment in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, researched and authored a detailed Master Plan for the Cayman Islands’ school environments, acted as lead planner for a Brisbane school’s Master Plan, and played a key role in EDI’s school planning contracts in the United States, India, Ukraine, Brunei, Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, the UAE, Malaysia, and the Cayman Islands.
She has had a number of speaking engagements at regional, national, and international events, and has authored papers for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, the British Council for School Environments, the Australian Education Union, Edutopia, and the School Libraries Association of Victoria. She was an editor of and contributor to EDI’s publications The Language of School Design (revised editions 2009, 2013) and Blueprint for Tomorrow (2014).
Annalise’s work with EDI draws on her ongoing teaching experiences and a broad understanding of educational literature. She earned a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2002. Her strong results in majors of Geography, and Media and Communication, showcased her work as a spatial and linguistic thinker.
After working as a graduate in the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Annalise turned to her passion for education and completed a Bachelor of Teaching (Primary and Secondary) at Deakin University.