Game Changers

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the fifth episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with David Ferguson, Headmaster of Westlake Boys High School. David has been Headmaster at Westlake Boys' High School since 2010. Westlake Boys' High School currently has 2400 boys on it’s roll, making it one of New Zealand’s biggest schools. Originally from the UK, David has been in New Zealand for 17 years now. He has been an educator for 27 years and has worked in boys’ schools for the whole of his career. David is Chairman of the Association of Boys’ Schools of New Zealand, and a Board member of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition as well as being Deputy Chairman of College Sport, Auckland. In this episode, he speaks about changing conceptions of masculinity, the centrality of character to his students' education, and the Māori concept of mana.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

GameChangers

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 storyteller with a passion for connecting our global community through education and inspiring others into action. In this third conversation, he speaks about measuring enterprise skills, the strength of listening as a leader, and how the COVID-19 crisis has debunked some persistent myths in education.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by a School for tomorrow. (aschoolfortomorrow.com) and CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Henry Musoma, Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the fourth episode of the third series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Tracey Breese, Principal of Kurri Kurri High School. Tracey is a disruptive educator who puts a question mark on the way we currently 'do' school. If we are in the fourth industrial revolution, then why are we still teaching in the ways of the first? This underpins her leadership and interrogation of schooling for this generation. In this episode, she speaks to Phil and Adriano about how to leave a legacy of forward-thinking and disruptive education, the difference between attendance and engagement, and how to bring teachers alongside a new model of learning.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

GameChangers

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 storyteller with a passion for connecting our global community through education and inspiring others into action. In this second episode, he and Phil speak about vulnerability, the struggle with perfectionism in education, and the amazing work Dean's doing with The Prince's Trust in helping students know who they are, develop their skills, take action, and then make action.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by a School for tomorrow. (aschoolfortomorrow.com) and CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Henry Musoma, Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 storyteller with a passion for connecting our global community through education and inspiring others into action. In this first episode, he discusses his journey from disruptive student to a disrupter in education, the challenges of supporting students' thriving in unsupportive contexts, and the successful youth enterprise programs he's been a part of.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by a School for tomorrow. (aschoolfortomorrow.com) and CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Henry Musoma, Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 of where each school stands on this earth. In this episode, she discusses teaching students about systems, running schools differently, and preparing students for a changing world by grounding them in connection to the Earth.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 a vision of a contemporary, future-focused secondary school in which students are deeply connected to their school, their community and their capacity to make a positive impact in their world. It’s a school underpinned by a core commitment to four key values, framed as learning dispositions: creativity, curiosity, challenge and character. In this episode, he speaks on kindness in school, the necessity of failure in education, and the importance of having fun as educators.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 the 21st century using a creative life skills approach. His work has impacted over one million children through the Happiness Curriculum in partnership with the Delhi Government. Vishal believes that if we can re-imagine learning to develop empathy, creative thinking, problem solving and collaborative working skills amongst young people, they will be able to truly thrive.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 student to the entire system, and set the provocation for this series: The Whole of Learning.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow.(aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.

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 explore the consequences of “Today’s Learning, Tomorrow’s World” for “A School for Tomorrow”.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions and supported by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education: www.circle.education. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.