Game Changers

What do we mean by “enterprise”? What does it mean to be “enterprising” and how might we support the education of young entrepreneurs? In this third special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dean Delia and Scott Millar to explore social leadership and entrepreneurship in programs and in practice. Dean Delia is a social entrepreneur, strategist and storyte...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the second episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Leslie Medema. Leslie is the Head of Learning at Green School Bali where she oversees the implementation of the curriculum and supports a process to finely calibrate it to celebrate the culture and country...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the third episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Nathan Chisholm. Nathan was appointed in 2018 to lead the development of the new Prahran High School in the diverse, vibrant and creative inner-city of Melbourne. From the outset, Nathan has sought to frame...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the first episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Vishal Talreja. Vishal co-founded Dream a Dream (www.dreamadream.org), a registered, charitable trust empowering children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in th...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this prologue to the third series of the Game Changers podcast, your hosts, Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato, discuss the centrality of wellness to the success of our learning communities, from the st...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this epilogue episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, your hosts, Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato, draw together their learnings from their conversations with the Game Changers and...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Leann Wilson is a Bidjara and Kara/Kara First Nation descendent, and acknowledges her South Sea Islander heritage. She was born, raised and spent most of her life in Barcaldine in Central Weste...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the eighth episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, we celebrate the pioneering work of Stephen Harris in creating places of learning that defy convention and seek to reflect the needs of today’s learning for tomorrow’s world. Your hosts Associate Professor of Education...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Leann Wilson is a Bidjara and Kara/Kara First Nation descendent, and acknowledges her South Sea Islander heritage. She was born, raised and spent most of her life in Barcaldine in Central Weste...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the seventh episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, your hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato discuss leading practice in the area of professional learning for teachers from Debor...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Leann Wilson is a Bidjara and Kara/Kara First Nation descendent, and acknowledges her South Sea Islander heritage. She was born, raised and spent most of her life in Barcaldine in Central Weste...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the sixth episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, your hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato are joined by Conrad Wolfram, a thought leader, innovator and entrepreneur who is passi...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Dr Julie Andrews is a proud Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung descendant who is based in Melbourne. She was born in Mooroopna a small town near Shepparton. Her research and expertise is str...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. Our fifth episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, we highlight the work of a distinguished Australian, Jan Owen AM. Jan shares her life story, her philanthropic work especially with the Foundation for Young Australians, her record of innovation at YLab and AdaptabilityQ,...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Dr Julie Andrews is a proud Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung descendant who is based in Melbourne. She was born in Mooroopna a small town near Shepparton. Her research and expertise is str...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In our fourth episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, our hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato talk with Greg Miller, Principal at St Luke’s Catholic College in Marsden Park, New Sou...

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Dr Julie Andrews is a proud Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung descendant who is based in Melbourne. She was born in Mooroopna a small town near Shepparton. Her research and expertise is str...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In our third episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Nikki Kirkup, a dynamic educator with a strong career in a variety of schools in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Nikki has recently taken up a post as Deputy Principal at The Knox School in Melbo...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. Pasi Sahlberg is a thought leader who decades of experience in leading in schools, school systems and academia on national and internal scales have seen him earn the respect of the global education community for his work in educational transformation. He is currently a professor of educatio...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the first episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Pernille Ripp. Pernille teaches at Oregon Middle School in Wisconsin, USA. She speaks with front line experience about how to construct learning in classrooms that seeks to empower learners to become the ac...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this prologue to the second series of the Game Changers podcast, your hosts, Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato, establish the frame of reference for thinking about the why, the how and the what of the...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In our Epilogue episode Phil and Adriano reflect upon the learnings from Series One via conversations with eight remarkable educational influencers. The conclusion? A School For Tomorrow. The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by CIRCLE – The Centre for I...

What might make a young man a game changer? Is his pathway to excellence, his journey towards becoming a good man? In this epilogue episode of this special series of the Game Changers podcast, Phil and Dr Henry Musoma, internationally renowned "Professor of Kindness”, draw together their learnings from this series about The Pathway to Excellence for young men, tell stories about their grandmothers...

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In our eighth episode, we celebrate the pioneering work of Mark Hutchinson in developing teacher training and research initiatives for Alphacrucis College that are changing the way in which schools go about recruiting and developing teachers through communities of knowledge, practice and fo...

In the final episode of this special series of the Game Changers podcast, Phil talks with Dr Henry Musoma, internationally renowned "Professor of Kindness” about the sixth graduate outcome for young men on The Pathway to Excellence: team creation. Henry and Phil share their understanding of collaboration and its many roles in our world, drawing from the global research into the character of an exc...