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Life as a senior school student can be challenging at the best of times. You might be in a great school and have great teachers, but still need that extra bit of help to succeed in your studies. For students at Forest High School, a new initiative called the Trailblazer program was launched to provide that help. It's a peer tutoring and mentoring program that was created for senior students where...

Celebrating Episode 50. Helen Murphy is the Assistant Principal at Vermont Primary School in Victoria. About 7 years ago, the school realised that it was time to look for a new reporting system. What they found in Sentral was a whole lot more, and the school quickly began to expand its use of Sentral and its capabilities. 7 years down the track it seems like a long way from the manual systems they...

Long-time Sentral veteran David Summerville has over 20 years configuring and managing Sentral. The Dashboard is a relatively simple part of the platform, yet David explains the essential aspects of successful Dashboard setup and use within a school. David offers practical advice for all schools, whether new to Sentral or experienced.

Nathan Richards is a Microsoft Innovative Educator, and spends his time helping teachers and students get the most out of Microsoft Teams. It's a way of looking at managing and teaching classes that takes a different view to the traditional LMS...or learning management system. In fact, for Nathan, and Brisbane Catholic Education the view is very different...as they don't actually use a traditional...

Amanda White is a senior lecturer in accounting at the University of Technology in Sydney, with a research focus on the teaching and learning aspects of accounting education. She speaks widely at conferences on accounting education, loves technology, and runs her own YouTube channel called Amanda Loves to Audit. Amanda is presenting at the 2020 Microsoft Eduday on the topic of "Do we need a tradit...

Peter Barnes is a learning innovator who has helped countless students with software-based approaches to learning difficulties. He's also a grandparent and had the chance to observe how the sudden change to schooling caused by COVID-19 has impacted the experiences of his grandchildren. What have we gained, lost and learned during this time? Peter provides a unique perspective.

Tony Vallance (Teacher of the Year 2019) talks about STEAM / STEM education and what it all means. Tony shares practical tips to help schools get started with STEM programs by creating student centred project which are engaging and relevant for our rapidly changing world. Tony brings enormous energy and enthusiasm to this exciting area of learning.

David Summerville is the Head Teacher, Technology, at Callaghan College Wallsend Campus, in Newcastle NSW. When it comes to using Sentral, few people are better qualified to talk about the platform than David. He was there from the beginning, and still there now many years later. In this episode I briefly retrace some of the history of Sentral and how the product has matured to what it is today. D...

Assistant Principal Kristy Sutton describes the improvements and efficiencies gained by adopting Sentral as the student management platform for Weston Public School.

It's the end of year holiday season again and time to take a break. Have a listen to these highlights as we take a quick look back over a few episodes from 2019.

Lubna Haddad helps teachers get the most out of their modern history students by developing higher order thinking skills. Practical advice for the classroom.

Block practise has its place when learning new concepts and procedures. But is it over-used, and could this actually be harmful to the learning process? Richard Andrew discusses with respect to learning maths. Also, check out Richard's article for more information. https://www.learnimplementshare.com/we-need-less-block-practice-and-more-interleaving.html To contact Richard, you can send him an ema...

Kylie Fabri describes the landscape for wellbeing in the age of mobile technology, and provides practical insight for parents and teachers.

Kylie Fabri describes aspects of creating effective wellbeing categories with Sentral. Staff buy in, collaboration and ownership of categories is essential to achieving a result the generates positive outcomes.

Kylie Fabri on the benefits of using Sentral for managing wellbeing. Improvements include quality of data, communication, collaboration, and generally improve wellbeing outcomes for students and the school community.

What happens when a student asks "What do I do when I'm finished?".Keep your students engaged with this simple but effective extension exercise. Former maths teacher and now presenter, Richard Andrew, discusses the idea in the context of maths, but it's broadly applicable to any subject area. You can also read Richard's original article at this link. https://www.learnimplementshare.com/best-ever-m...

How the language of 'wellbeing' has made a positive change of students, staff and families in schools today. Part 1 of a 3 part series with Deputy Principal, Kylie Fabri, of Callaghan College Newcastle.

Is there an approach to teaching maths that can actually make maths easier for students to understand? Richard Andrew explains, with practical tips on engaging learners through conceptual approaches to maths teaching. For further resources, check out this article by Richard. https://www.learnimplementshare.com/students-need-to-understand-school-maths.html

Developing new methods, and habits of practice can be challenging. In this episode of Sentral Station, Simon Brooks explains why this can be difficult, and provides practical insight into developing new ideas and approaches to teaching and learning based on the cultures of thinking framework. This is the last of our four part series with Simon. If you haven't heard the previous three episodes, the...

Coming up this November, Sentral Station will be releasing a short series on wellbeing, with Kylie Fabri, Deputy Principal of Callaghan College, Wallsend Campus in Newcastle. Over 3 episodes, we'll cover the language of wellbeing, the benefits of using a centralised system for managing wellbeing (like Sentral) and how technology has changed the nature of managing wellbeing in schools today.

Sometimes taking on new ideas and approaches is harder than you think. What if you're just not into it? In this episode of Sentral Station, education researcher Simon Brooks helps us navigate such a situation, and helps us turn frustration into curiosity.

Simon Brooks helps us to understand 'types of questions', and how to use them to really great effect in the classroom.

We all think. But what is a culture of thinking? And if we don't have a culture of thinking, how do we go about creating one? Researcher and presenter, Simon Brooks, describes what it's all about.

Following from our previous episode, Richard Andrew takes us through a simple example of teaching maths conceptually. Using the concept of adding fractions with common denominators, Richard explains how the conceptual approach can make such a difference. To find out more about Richard's PD courses for teachers, visit the website. http://www.learnimplementshare.com or send him an email richard@lear...