Game Changers

In this second special series of the Game Changers Podcast, Phil talks with Dr Julie Andrews and Leann Wilson about how education might help Australia to address its sad relationship with our First Nations. Dr Julie Andrews is a proud Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung descendant who is based in Melbourne. She was born in Mooroopna a small town near Shepparton. Her research and expertise is strongly aligned to her Aboriginal community and heritage, however, she has research interests in mobility, identity, community development and wellbeing along with higher education. Her Yorta Yorta and Melbourne Aboriginal communities are at the centre of her work. Dr Andrews lectures in Aboriginal Studies and is Convenor of Aboriginal Studies at La Trobe University. In this first episode, Phil talks with Julie about family, the importance of story, and confronting the reality of dispossession and resistance in the history of Aboriginal Australia.

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 our third episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Nikki Kirkup, a dynamic educator with a strong career in a variety of schools in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Nikki has recently taken up a post as Deputy Principal at The Knox School in Melbourne, Australia and shares the journey of the school towards personalised learning and its real-time response to the COVID-19 crisis with hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato. You can contact Nikki at [email protected]

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. Pasi Sahlberg is a thought leader who decades of experience in leading in schools, school systems and academia on national and internal scales have seen him earn the respect of the global education community for his work in educational transformation. He is currently a professor of education policy at the Gonski Institute for Education, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and his latest book is Let The Children Play. In the third episode of the second series of the Game Changers podcast, Pasi discusses the possibility of an education that is authentic, fair while allowing children room to explore and even play with hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato. You can contact Pasi at [email protected]

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 second series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Pernille Ripp. Pernille teaches at Oregon Middle School in Wisconsin, USA. She speaks with front line experience about how to construct learning in classrooms that seeks to empower learners to become the active authors of their life stories and positive agents for change in the world. Pernille opens up her educational practices to the world on her blog www.pernillesripp.com and is also the creator of the Global Read Aloud Project, a global literacy initiative that has connected millions of students. She is an internationally known educational speaker and also the author of several education books, with her latest release titled Passionate Readers - The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child.

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 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, establish the frame of reference for thinking about the why, the how and the what of the learning paradigm that will prepare our students to thrive in their world and set the provocation for this series: Today’s Learning, Tomorrow’s World.

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 our Epilogue episode Phil and Adriano reflect upon the learnings from Series One via conversations with eight remarkable educational influencers. The conclusion? A School For Tomorrow.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by 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.

What might make a young man a game changer? Is his pathway to excellence, his journey towards becoming a good man? In this epilogue episode of this special series of the Game Changers podcast, Phil and Dr Henry Musoma, internationally renowned "Professor of Kindness”, draw together their learnings from this series about The Pathway to Excellence for young men, tell stories about their grandmothers, and even sing a wonderful old Bill Withers song. For more information about the global research into the character of an excellent education by CIRCLE - The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education, go to https://circle.education/circles-research-in-education/.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in 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 our eighth episode, we celebrate the pioneering work of Mark Hutchinson in developing teacher training and research initiatives for Alphacrucis College that are changing the way in which schools go about recruiting and developing teachers through communities of knowledge, practice and formation. Your hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato, affirm the importance of excellent training for teachers using the unique hub model with Mark and discuss how to pursue innovation in academia despite the odds. You can contact Mark at [email protected] and you can learn more about him here: https://www.ac.edu.au/faculty-and-staff/mark-hutchinson/

The Game Changers podcast is produced by 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.

In the final episode of this special series of the Game Changers podcast, Phil talks with Dr Henry Musoma, internationally renowned "Professor of Kindness” about the sixth graduate outcome for young men on The Pathway to Excellence: team creation. Henry and Phil share their understanding of collaboration and its many roles in our world, drawing from the global research into the character of an excellent education by CIRCLE - The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education. For more information about the global research into the character of an excellent education by CIRCLE - The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education, go to https://circle.education/circles-research-in-education/.

The Game Changers podcast is produced by Orbital Productions and supported by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in 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 our seventh episode, we learn about the world of women and entrepreneurship from Madeleine Grummet, an award-winning education technology and innovation founder, advisor, startup mentor and investor, journalist, and executive board director. Your hosts Associate Professor of Education and Enterprise Philip Cummins and prominent educational Thought Leader Adriano Di Prato, discuss with Madeleine her career, aspirations, and success as Founder of Future Amp, and the Founder and CEO of education company girledworld, which to date has worked with 30,000+ high school students to equip them with career pathways and soft skills for the future of work. You can contact Madeleine at [email protected] and you can learn more about her here: http://www.girledworld.com/madeleinegrummet

The Game Changers podcast is produced by 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.