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This week the Identity and Formation team partnered with ALC’s Dr Meg Noack to present at the ACU and DePaul (Chicago) Service-Learning Conference. We shared about the journey of building a conceptual approach to Service-Learning, and how this conceptual approach is helping to create a common language across the Lutheran system, and the benefits of […]

Olympic medallist Mollie O’Callaghan received a hero’s welcome when she returned to school yesterday. She leads Queensland’s youth domination of national swimming teams, with the pick of the crop to be unveiled soon by Swimming Queensland. Andrew Dawson August 24, 2021 – 12:30AM Quest Newspapers Olympic swimmer Mollie O’Callaghan received a hero’s welcome when she […]

Last Friday evening 20 people from across 4 states joined Derek Bartels, Kim Powell  and the amazing Ariel Raz from Stanford dSchool for a fun and relaxed learning lounge event. Ariel took us through some thinking and discussion about what futures thinking can look like when it’s applied to education. It was wonderful to have […]

Last Monday, the St Paul’s School community hosted the first events for their Principal Anton Prinsloo’s farewell. A Walk of Honour was held; students both present and past, staff, parents and special guests lined the pathway around the school. Anton took the time to walk and greet each person. Some students made posters or cards […]

Gen[in] is Queensland’s first ever internationally focused innovation challenge, bringing together students to develop innovative ideas with a global perspective for local impact. It brings an opportunity to develop meaningful connections with a community of like-minded Queensland students, young innovators, mentors and businesses. Mrs Natasha Purcell, Career Counsellor at Good Shepherd explained the process. “The […]

A great crew of educators from a number of Lutheran schools gathered at the end of Term 1 to dive deeper into the Service-Learning space.  As part of our 2021 focus on listening to diverse voices, we had the privilege of hearing guest presenter, Liliana Sanchez from the organisation ‘Moving Cultures, Moving Stories’. Coming to Australia as […]

It was inspiring and heartening to see 28 Lutheran Educators from across all the regions collaborate and engage in visits to schools in Qld including 6 Lutheran Schools over the last three days. There was much discussion, presentations, workshops and school tours centering around the key components of a contemporary transformation of learning including Culture, […]

Good News Lutheran School students placed 2nd in the Y3-4 Division at the National Finals of the Young ICT Explorers Challenge on Saturday 20 February. Their project was the Defloodinator3000 which is designed to prevent pools from flooding. Their device detects when the water gets too high and automatically drains the pool back to a […]

Last week Lutheran Education Queensland engaged with the final year Australian Catholic University education students as part of the transitions to the workforce annual event. It was pleasing to see that over 80% of the soon-to-be graduates know of, and are positively familiar with Lutheran Education. There were lots of questions and recounts by students […]