Meet Damian Bisogni: our new Facilitator
Damian Bisogni is a family man, a Dad with 3 boys aged 12, 16 and 20. Born in Melbourne, he’s been living on the NSW north coast for 20 years. As a teacher, for the last 15 years he was based at Ballina High School (now Ballina Coast HS), he developed his interest in Indigenous issues...
Read MoreSt Kieran’s Catholic School
Principal Claudine Dank, says the ideas that Stronger Smarter teaches are important to St Kieran’s Catholic School with a 17% Indigenous student population and situated on the traditional lands of the Kalkadoon people at Mt Isa. Claudine says the Stronger Smarter Approach fits well with the...
Read MoreNetworking Event #2: Key Speaker Bardi Educator, Edie Wright
Register NOW Edie Wright is Bardi, the Aboriginal language group from Ardiyooloon Community on the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome in Western Australia. She has had an extensive and varied teaching career having taught in large town schools before taking up the role of principal of a remote...
Read MoreCelebrating Indigenous culture at Coal Point Public School
“For me, it has made sure that I’m conscious, not only in my classroom, but within my stage that I’m setting high expectations for myself and staff and this filters down to the students, using the tools that Stronger Smarter provided.” (Kate Payne) Kate Payne and Louise Groves, Assistant...
Read MoreEmbedding Gunditjmara culture at Warrnambool Primary School
When Warrnambool Primary School Principal, Peter Auchettl, and teacher Jacqui Gore undertook the Stronger Smarter Leadership Program in 2013, they sat down to think about how to integrate the Stronger Smarter culture and ethos across the school. “First we needed to gather information,” Peter...
Read MoreRe-writing the narrative at Halls Creek District High School
High school attendance at Halls Creek District High School is heading in the right direction. While they still have a long way to go, the school has seen a 50% increase in high school attendance over three years. Associate Principal, Jake Petterwood, says over that time they...
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