Christian Schools Australia

This podcast is for every practitioner, and the principals who lead our schools. This week we discuss behaviour management with one on the UK’s leading experts. CSA’s Dave Stevens of WA, interviews Paul Dix the once difficult child, relentless teacher and now award-winning behaviour trainer. Paul has been working with the most difficult behaviours in the most challenging urban schools and colleges...

Matt Kutz is a Full Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio in the College of Education and Human Development. He is a Senior Editor for two scholarly journals and is an award-winning author, researcher, and educator. He has written several books and his book on Contextual Intelligence was honored for Innovation and Cutting-Edge Perspective by the Leadership Book Awards. Some key conve...

On this episode of ‘Horizon 2020’ Mark Spencer talks with Dr Stephen Chavura , currently lecturer in history at Campion College, having previously lectured in political philosophy at Macquarie University.  Stephen also serves on the faculty of the Lachlan Macquarie Institute including teaching in the GPS program aiming at preparing young people for university. Whether Christians should be inv...

On this episode of ‘Horizon 2020’ Darren Iselin talks with Dr Beth Green, who is currently Provost and Chief Academic Officer of Tyndale University, Fellow of the Royal Society and a Senior Fellow and former Director of Education at Cardus, a faith-based think tank in Canada. The importance of evidence in a quality improvement school agenda underscores why it is so important to measure what we val...

In an increasingly secular landscape, Christian schools have an enormous challenge in forming young people who are shaped by the Biblical story and equipped to serve the world around them. This requires a strong sense of purpose, a clear vision of flourishing individuals and schools, and healthy leadership to bring that vision alive In this episode of ‘Horizon 2020’, Mark Ryan talks with Andy Wolf...

With schools partially shutting their doors again in Victoria, so teachers and leaders must once again face the challenge of sustaining online learning over a longer period than anyone expected. But this ought to be seen as an opportunity as well, an opportunity to reflect deeply on learning solutions and their role in the wider digital strategy of any school. Why? Because schools never really clo...

The Head of Research & Innovation at CREST Education explores the possibilities afforded by this time of enforced separation, extended reflection and rapid innovation. What will we hold on to? What should we rethink and remove in this new educational era?

Recorded on the 7th May, in the midst of lock-down, Daniel reflects on the need to create stability, predictability and continuity in our school communities now students return to classroom learning and the ways in which we might listen, capture and preserve the learnings of this time and look to this moment as an opportunity for educational re-set.

Join Sharon Pedro, classroom teacher from a large Christian College in the heart of Victoria, as she explores what supporting students, pastorally (but virtually) looked like in lock-down and the systems, processes and structures we must now look to as we return to face-face schooling.

Being known is an important part of our identity and worth.  Taking the time to know someone, to learn their story has the power to change the world. In our classrooms, when we learn our students’ names, their families, their strengths and weaknesses, their hobbies, their passions - we say that they are worth knowing, and that we want to know them. How can we know differently when forced to s...

A teacher from HOPE International School in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Josh recalls the learnings from the original Relational Teacher research with CSA back in 2017. Now teaching in a very different context, both socially and culturally, Josh explores how he is applying the work we did together back then, to the challenging environment he now finds himself in.