Courageous Dialogues

A conversation with Rohan Duncan, President of 'Have a Ball Foundation'. The ‘Have a Ball Foundation’ has been established to put smiles on the faces of young children by providing sporting balls to kids in remote schools and communities in outback Australia to encourage a healthy, active, and fun sporting life as well as raise money to support the health and well being of indigenous children.

https://haveaball.org.au/

A conversation with Angela Lopez who is a third year student at Swinburne University who is studying a Bachelor of Film and Television Honours. Angela, also works freelance in the Film and Television Industry as a producer, director, production designer and overall creative direction.

A conversation with Ortal Green who is empowering parents and teachers to create tomorrow's innovators. Ortal, has written 'Think Unique', which provides teachers with a step-by-step guide to turning their classroom into an innovative environment where children develop their thinking skills.

A conversation with Lisa Sisson, Founder of Unearth. Lisa, who has been listed in The Australian Business Journal as one of the 20 Australian Women Making Moves in 2022, talks about her work to demystify risks.

In the podcast Lisa talks about the need to make people rethink how they approach risk  and risk management, the impact of disengagement, what people are calling for in their working environments and her writing of ‘Risk Starts and End with People’.

In this episode of Courageous Dialogues, Pavani Randeniyage, a past Year 5 student of mine talks about her pathway into her career.

Pavani reflects on the experiences that led to her banking career. We discuss the opportunities of a graduate program, rotations and support structures that are available in the workforce.

In this podcast I talk with Associate Professor Therese Keane who has a wealth of experience around IT in Education.

We have a conversation around the teaching of ICT and the impact of teacher expertise in the classroom and the use of robotics in secondary education.

Therese also shares with us her journey of engaging girls in IT and the RoboCats initiative. We discuss the experience provided when learning within a school setting and the opportunities that partnerships can provide.

A conversation with Sylvia Libow Martinez, former aerospace engineer now working to help K-12 schools adopt modern technology and age-old best practices for student learning. Sylvia co-authored “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom”.

In this episode of Courageous Dialogues, Sylvia talks about her real-world experiences and thoughts on educational matters as they relate to makerspaces, STEM and learning designs.

In this episode of Courageous Dialogues, Simon Davies from Safeguarding Services talks about his experiences in his current role and as a former Australian Federal Police detective.

We touch on a number of topics related to the New Child Safe Standards that now apply in Victoria.

In this episode of Courageous Dialogues, Mark Christie, an education specialist based in the Northern Territory talks about his role after a flight over Darwin.

Mark and Tanya touch on a number of topics related to the delivery and support levels to schools across remote and urban NT.

Steve Daly has an extensive background in the education sector, spanning across multiple industries and countries.

In this podcast we focus on Professional Learning Communities, the characteristics, conditions, language and the resources required to be most successful.