Meet Our Board// Dina Fieck

AISNT Board Director & Principal of Alice Springs Steiner School

Dina is Principal of The Alice Springs Steiner School, a position she has held since January 2018. She is an educator steeped in the Steiner tradition. Her parents were involved with Steiner Schools, and she attended one herself. All her teaching has been in Steiner Schools. This is fortunate as it can be difficult to find Steiner trained teachers to employ. Dina really does understand the Steiner tradition and philosophy.


Dina began teaching in her early twenties having studied a four-year teacher training qualification at Lorien Novalis School for Rudolf Steiner Education. She was a person who welcomed additional responsibilities. In December 2008 she received her Bachelor of Education from Southern Cross University. From January 2002 - December 2009 she was the Primary School Coordinator at Shearwater, The Mullumbimby Steiner School, NSW.


November 2011 - December 2014 she was Director of Education at Mt Barker Waldorf School Adelaide. June 2015 - November 2017, she held the position of Pedagogical Administrator at the Brooklyn Waldorf School USA. From there she moved to the Forest House Waldorf School Hong Kong China, as the Teacher of class 3, a position she held for 2 years.


Dina furthered her education by studying a Master of Training and Development at the University of New England and then a Doctor of Education at Flinders University. Dina is a highly accomplished educator with broad and international experience complete with a wide variety of skills. Dina’s knowledge makes her a valued board member with AISNT.


Written by Chris Tudor

Principal Thoughts 2025: Issue 7 Culture is so Important, But Challenging

March 25, 2025
As Principal it is so valuable to have a clear, known definition of these three factors and not simple to look this up just before a board meeting. A shallow understanding is not helpful - it is essential for a principal to really engage with this and to encourage their board to as well. It is also important that staff are encouraged to be able to recognise issues and for students to be observant. It is of no value for the Principal to understand it and keep it hidden.

Principal Thoughts 2025// Issue 6: School Leaders & the Law

March 17, 2025
This excellent program was presented last week, February 27 and 28 in Darwin for both AISNT and Catholic School Leaders. The presenters were our well known Dr Stephen Brown, Managing Director of the Brown Collective and three lawyers who are partners of the noted Law Firm Colin Biggers and Paisley - Megan Kavanagh, Morgan Lane, Mathisha Panagoda. The Principal I had in 1980 had just returned from running a school in Brunei for five years. He had a global view of life and I can see him now, as he addressed the staff in a meeting, noting that we were following the United States trend into the Age of Litigation. And he was certainly right! As a new Principal it was easy to be intimidated when someone said: “Well I’m going to see a lawyer”. I quickly learnt to say: “Fine if you have to.” I knew that I would do likewise immediately.
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