Educator
June (JB) Barnes-Rowley has been teaching since 1989 when she joined the Kumon Institute of Education and opened a Kumon education centre in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the Kumon Institute June was a well-known instructor, a respected keynote speaker at national and regional conferences and a regular workshop facilitator. After twelve years with the Institute JB began work as a private education consultant incorporating a variety of learning strategies in programs designed specifically to each student’s individual needs, from lower primary to VCE level. JB now runs a highly successful private education service, receiving immense joy from working with her students. To support her students she works closely with other professionals (when required) such as speech pathologists and teachers. JB also holds a TESL/TEFL Certificate and has worked with schools and teachers in India and Indonesia and designed and implemented an English curriculum for Indonesian schools. |
Storyteller and author
JB has been an oral storyteller for over twenty-five years and was editor of Australia’s National Storytelling Magazine (swag of yarns) for eight years. JB’s literary works were first published when she was a teenager writing short stories for New Idea and other journals. In 2007 she made her debut as a novelist with the publication of Whisper My Secret—a non-fiction novel that tells her mother’s true story and which has achieved outstanding success. The ebook edition is now an Amazon #1 Best Seller as is the sequel, Mother of Ten. Using the pen name Brigid George, JB also writes the Dusty Kent murder mystery series starting with Murder in Murloo. |