Heidi Hansen (Principal), Terriane Sherry (Learning Enhancement Teacher) and Joshua Pacek (Innovation and Learning Design Teacher) from Bethany Lutheran Primary School, recently visited a number of Catholic schools in Sydney. Hosted by Darren Pope and Dr Kate O’Brien (Assistant Director, Sydney Catholic Schools) they met with school leaders to explore how pedagogy and culture had […]
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Australia’s first HundrED GLocal
The first Australian HundrED ‘GLocal’ event on Contemporary Learning hosted by Lutheran Education Queensland at St Peters Lutheran College. The Mission of the not for profit organisation HundrED is to share inspiring contemporary learning innovations from around the world so that all kids can flourish no matter their circumstance. Last week Australia had the first […]
Trinity Lutheran College Feature Internationally – Money Matters
Marc Tidd (Head of Learning) at Trinity Lutheran College was recently featured internationally on the HundrED site for creating an innovative program in financial skills for students. Students learn essential financial skills from budgeting to financial projections by designing a social enterprise and pitching for funding. Using Start Up models of design thinking and idea […]
Record attendance at St Andrews IC’19
St Andrews Lutheran College with Bond University and other partners again launched their annual Entrepreneurship program IC ’19. There was a record turn-out of about 30 students from Year 6 to 12 registering in the annual 12-week Entrepreneurship program (12 Fridays from 1pm-5pm). The focus on the first day was developing the soft skills of […]
Good News Lutheran Primary School creating and engaging in PBL for the world and the world stage!
Congratulations to a group of year 5 and 6 girls from Good News Lutheran School who have been invited to share a school project with a network of entrepreneurs and learners in San Francisco in two weeks. As part of the Tech Girls Superheros challenge, these three students have investigated the problem of plastic pollution […]
Grace Lutheran Primary School celebrated NAIDOC Week
Grace Lutheran Pre-School was busy celebrating NAIDOC Week during the last week of term two.With the service closed for the school holidays, when National NAIDOC Week is celebrated, the pre-school chose to celebrate the week before so they wouldn’t miss out. On Tuesday and Thursday, July 2 and 4, Paul Spearim came to the pre-school […]
Faith Futures!
Rich discussions were had by Faith Lutheran College Redlands’ Council last Saturday as they incorporated an episode of Contemporary Learning Transformation into their full day’s work. They engaged in an exercise of profiling a graduate in a contemporary world and examining models of contemporary transformations of schooling while examining the why, what and hows. A […]
Grace Lutheran College -Forecasting the Future!
The energy was high at Grace Lutheran College as they recently examined how contemporary schooling influences a master plan for their College. Great ideas for future planning with Towill Design and Architects facilitating the shared thinking sessions, along with providing heaps of custard and red jelly desserts!
QUT, Learning and LEQ
QUT’s recent work and publication involving contemporary learning spaces was highlighted at a recent Learning Environments Australasia Event. It was hosted in the beautiful new QUT Education Precinct. (“No Lecture Theatres Anymore – Instead, Creative Inquiry Spaces” Executive Dean of Education – Professor Carol Nicoll) LEQ assisted in the Learning Environments Australasia Event surrounding the […]
Learning & Innovation Centre at St Peters
Tim Kotzur continued to ignite and fuel the vision and passion for the proposed Innovation and Contemporary Learning Precinct and Campus Heart of St Peter’s Lutheran College at Indooroopilly. This construction of a College Innovation and Learning Centre will be uniquely P-12. Tim shared some of the overarching impacts: The Centre for Learning & Innovation […]
