Building relationships at Sacred Heart School, Beagle Bay
Sacred Heart School school, on the country of the Nyul Nyul people in the remote community of Beagle Bay, on the Kimberley coastline of Western Australia, caters for 90% Aboriginal students from Kindergarten to Year 10. Lyla Forte, the school’s Principal says the Stronger Smarter...
Read More97% of SSI graduates use the language of Strong and Smart to promote high expectations and belief in students
Every two years the Institute runs a comprehensive survey of alumni from our Stronger Smarter Leadership Program known as the Stronger Smarter Census. It gives us insights into the implementation of the Stronger Smarter Approach for individuals, schools and organisations. Data from our 2018...
Read MoreMeet 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...
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