Christian Schools Australia

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 socially distance? Join Leah Nicholls in Episode Two of our new podcast series to explore this issue.

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.