The Educhange Podcast

Samaira Mehta is a 10 year old entrepreneur from California in the US. At the age of 7, Samaira invented a coding board game which she has taught over 2000 children to play so far. Samaira has started an initiative to teach coding to underrepresented girls called ‘Girls U Code’, and to recognise her important work has received letters from The White House. She is passionate about helping everyone to be excited about coding, programming and STEM, and through her work she helps to bridge the gender gap in technology.

Iain Taylor is the principal of Manurewa Intermediate, a middle school with 850 students outside of Auckland, New Zealand. 45% of students identify as Pasifika and 35% as Maori and today we unpack exactly what Iain and his leadership team did to transform Manurewa Intermediate into one of the best intermediate schools in the country, winning the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Supreme Award in 2017. Iain is also joining us on the EC18 stage on 2nd October in Melbourne. 

Dr. Lindsa McIntyre is currently the inspiring headmaster of the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, located in the heart of the “promise neighborhood” of Boston. As a school leader, she has helped transform the Burke into a positive learning environment of love, becoming the first high school in Massachusetts to exit Turnaround status. In 2011 she was honoured by the Freedom House as a Champion of Freedom. She will be delivering one of the keynote for our EC18 conference in Melbourne on October 2nd.

A quick preview of our some of our season three episodes as well as our annual learning Event, Educhange 2018. Held in Melbourne on October 2nd, it'll see hundred of educators come together to learn, connect and innovate. To find out more, head to educhange.com.au

Jim Watterston is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. He began this role in January after many successful years leading education systems around Australia, including most recently in the role of Director-General of the Queensland Department of Education and Training. He has also led education as Director General of the ACT and as a Deputy Secretary in Victoria. We discuss leadership, teacher training and the need to reconceptualise education.

Alice was a passionate head of department in a Melbourne school before she shared her love for food and education as a contestant on Season Four of Masterchef. Since then, there has been a children’s cook book, children’s TV series, regular radio appearances and a stint as food editor for The Weekly Review. Alice discusses her insights as an educator on food as well as her new project, Phenonenom, a curriculum-aligned digital food education resource for primary teachers. 

Larry Rosenstock is President, CEO and Founding Principal of High Tech High, a network of thirteen incredible public charter schools K-12 in California. With a remarkable career in education receiving the Ford Foundation Innovations Award, an Ashoka Fellowship, and the McGraw Prize in Education, he has also served as an attorney at the Harvard Center for Law and Education and as a visiting professor at UC Berkley. We explore the philosophy of HTH that has lead to quality learning and outcomes for students.

Beverley Oliver is the Alfred Deakin Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Deakin University. A leader in innovative student learning and experience in the higher education sector, she leads the university's drive to premium digital education and is an expert on graduate employability, skills and capabilities, digital credentialing, curriculum reform and digital innovation. We discuss the fascinating and evolving field of higher education and the knowledge and skills we need for this changing world.

Cally is a Deputy Principal at Bundaberg State High School up in Queensland, Australia, and the EC team were lucky enough to meet her in 2016 when Cally took part in the Changemaker Program. Cally is an incredibly passionate educator who is particularly focussed on changing the game for kids who are disengaged and sometimes school refusing, and is all about helping them to reengage with the education system.

Max Stossel is the Head of Content & Storytelling for the Center for Humane Technology, an organization of former tech insiders and CEOs dedicated to realigning technology with humanity's best interests. Before joining CHT, Max was a media strategist, spending more time learning the ins and outs of the facebook algorithm than any human should. He is also an award winning poet and filmmaker and his work has spanned across 14 languages, won two Webby Awards and consistently gets millions of views. Today we chat about the implications of technology for our modern world and the learners in our classrooms.