The start of the year saw many of our schools deliver professional learning to hundreds of our educators as part of their student-free-day experiences. The student-free-days are always a rich and powerful time of the year as we all commit to carving out the year ahead. Some of our schools leveraged professionals to guide their professional learning, many of our schools embarked on curriculum redesign, whilst others used in-house resources to prepare the academic team for the term ahead.
Below is one of the bespoke programs designed by our schools in collaboration with LEQ. For further information about bespoke professional learning opportunities for your academic teams, please email dli@leq.lutheran.edu.au
St John’s Lutheran Primary School Bundaberg
St John’s Prep to Year 6 educators spent 2-days rallying around the trusted design-thinking methodology to establish a solid scope and sequence of human-centered, service-learning units of work.
Teachers stuck to blue sky thinking to define their impact topics and relevant community assets before linking back to the curriculum boundaries whilst maintaining solid foundations in old basics (literacy / numeracy). During 2023, all learners at St John’s will embark on solving problems that matter, connecting with learning partners such as local farmers, indigenous communities, immigrants, local council, senior buddies, the church and more.
Throughout the two days, St John’s Bundaberg leveraged off our learning community through virtual workshops from LORDS and Apple Education and we challenged our thinking and ideated possibilities using Catapult Cards.
At the heart of this collaboration was the art of subtraction. Clearing away peripheral parts of our education system so that we can put better focus on the most important things that matter in our communities. We need to look closely at our schools and figure out everything that we don’t need to be doing anymore. We need to find as many things as possible that we can take off the plates of overworked educators.
Congratulations to all the staff involved. The Bundaberg and extended community will be blessed to join your learners as they embark on these initiatives.
