In this episode we speak with Jon Soong, the CEO and Co-founder of Makers Empire, a company in Adelaide that helps K-8 educators teach Design Thinking, STEM and 21st Century Learning Skills through 3D printing and 3D design.

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Professor Karen Reynolds is the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering and the Director of the The Medical Device Research Institute at Flinders University.

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Professor Tom Lowrie is Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra and Director of the STEM Education Research Centre.

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In this episode, we speak to Flavia Tata Nardini, the CEO and Co-founder of Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies.

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Professor Martin Westwell is the Chief Executive of the SACE Board, South Australia's curriculum and assessment authority.

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The final panel conversation from the CESA Middle Years Network day at the end of last year. Today we feature a conversation with Mark from Thomas More College, and Walter & Thomas from St Paul’s College. It was a great discussion, and a wonderful way to end a really interesting day, unpacking the wisdom that these teachers have attained through both their accumulated professional experience, and the recent changes to the CESA middle years model, with secondary schools moving Year 7’s to their campuses.

The next panel conversation from the CESA Middle Years Network day at the end of last year. We feature a discussion with teachers from two schools working in very different locations and contexts: Kathy, Hannah and Anne from Kildare College, an all-girls secondary school in Adelaide’s north eastern suburbs, and Toni from St Mark’s College, a multi-campus R-12 school in the regional city of Port Pirie. A great conversation that really calls things how they are in terms of the challenges they’ve faced, and what they’ve learned about effective middle school teaching for students today.

Music for this episode by Lee Rosevere (leerosevere.bandcamp.com) and Joseph McDade (josephmcdade.com/music).

We're launching this new podcast with a series of panel conversations from late last year with teachers who have been a part of the CESA Middle Years Network.

Catholic Education South Australia's has moved ahead of other school sectors in Adelaide to move Year 7 to secondary settings from 2019, and a group of 7 schools opted to be a part of a network, supporting educators as they inquire into learning, pedagogy and wellbeing that encourage the Middle Years learner to thrive and flourish. The principal aim being to help participants to develop a deeper understanding of the implications that the developmental changes that occur in adolescence have for teaching in the Middle Years.

The venue was the brand new auditorium at Xavier College, Gawler… so new in fact that we were the very first group to ever use it. It seems only fitting then that the first conversation was with Janet Coomber. Xavier’s Assistant Principal of Middle School Teaching and Learning.

A podcast all about teaching, for teachers. The new podcast from Arch D Radio will launch February 2020, available wherever you get your podcasts.