10 years of Academic Success Guaranteed at Cairns West State School
An interview with Matt Thompson If a kid’s sitting at home watching daytime TV or kicking a can down the road rather than coming to school, then we have to ask ‘What’s happening at this school?” Matt Thompson, Principal, Whitfield State School Matt Thompson, the Principal of Whitfield...
Read MoreMax Lenoy yarns about Digital Technologies and Indigenous Knowledges
Max Lenoy is Kuku Yalanji on his Dad’s side from Mossman and the Gulf area. Through his Mother, he connects to Hughenden and the Djirrbal and Warungum mobs. Max is leading our SSiSTEMIK Masterclass in Digital Technologies at the Australian Catholic University at their Banyo, Brisbane campus. ...
Read MoreBuilding 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...
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