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How does a school build leadership from the inside out?
At Woodville High School's Special Interest Music Centre, two teachers in Orbis' Leading Future Learning program did something simple and quietly innovative: they asked their students.
What emerged is a compelling example of our strategy for public education in action — showing what happens when professional learning activates strategy in our schools.
In this episode of the Orbis Podcast, host Professor Pasi Sahlberg talks with Ben Fuller, Paul Monaghan, and five of their students about what ...[read more]
How inquiry and engagement lead to school improvement
From an inner-city primary school to a remote Aṉangu community, schools across South Australia are finding their own paths to improvement. At a primary school in Adelaide's inner west, students became co-designers of their own mathematics learning — and achievement followed. In a remote Aṉangu community, a pottery program shaped by Elders and students has become a space of creativity, cultural continuity and genuine aspiration. At a high school in outback South Australia, embedding daily rituals of ...[read more]
AI Spotlight: Education in an AI Era
In this spotlight, Charles Fadel explores how education needs to change in a world where AI is everywhere. He encourages educators to guide learners beyond just using it— to leading, questioning, and thinking critically about the future it shapes.
Charles highlights the importance of understanding artificial intelligence and working together with smart systems while reminding us that human capabilities like critical thinking, creativity, adaptability and ethical decision making will always be valued.
What you’ll learn in this 60-minute session:
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"The connections with other subjects, with the connections with other teachers, the connection to community, happened because we were just having a go at something that was different.’"
Morgan Wallis - Teacher, Jamestown Community School
In this episode Morgan Wallis from Jamestown Community School joins us to talk about the cycle of inquiry she led at her school as part of the Safeguarding Democracy through Public Education 7-8 program. Jamestown Community School had a focus on learner agency as their area of impact,
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Kangaroo Island Community Education (KICE) is the Island’s only school, serving students from reception to year 12 across 3 campuses. In 2025, all leaders at Band B-3 level and above participated in Orbis’ Leadership Coaching program, with the aim of involving the entire leadership team by early 2026.
Principal Peter Philp’s vision is to establish a consistent leadership culture throughout all sites. The Growth Coaching framework has provided a common understanding and approach, transforming communication and strengthening leadership practices at KICE.
Peter
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