Transform your teaching at the Creating Contemporary Learning Conference

Contemporary
learning
CONFERENCE
Creating
with presenters
Steve Collis (SCIL)
Karen Starkiss
MAC1
Intuyu Consulting
paul McLoughlAn
program
Friday 29 May
Catholic Education
Catherine McAuley Arts Centre
Catholic College Wodonga
Registrations through www.stickytickets.com.au/24603
30 sessions to choose from,
one transformational day
FEATURING 16 leading presenters including
Steve collis
Director of Innovation, Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning.
Edu-Innovator, Idea Merchant, Strategist, Facilitator, Speaker,
Writer, Mad Inventor, Tech-Whisperer (Aust, International).

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creating contemporary Learning
conference Friday 29 May
This professional development day is for Foundation to
Year 12 schools across northern Victoria and southern
NSW. Presentations by leading industry professionals
will address innovative teaching, ICT, adding value,
flexible and contemporary learning spaces. It includes a
keynote address by renowned innovative thinker Steve
Collis, supported by three timeslots across the day where
delegates can attend up to three workshops out of thirty
sessions offered.
This day can transform your teaching, your classroom
and your school. It is for educators looking towards
creating a contemporary learning environment
WHAT IS THE CREATING CONTEMPORARY LEARNING CONFERENCE?
program
Sessionthree
1.20pm-2.15pm
Sessiontwo
11.30am-12.25pm
SessionOne
10.00am-10.55am
8.30am arrival, prayer and introduction Darren Hovey Principal, Catholic College
2.45pm closING THANK YOU Darren Hovey / refreshments
3A
Design Thinking
Steve
Collis
3b
’What’s the
solution?’
Karen
Starkiss
3c
‘So you want
students to take
more responsibility
for their learning
at VCE level?’
John Eason
3d
learning settings
(Part b)
Ken Woodman
3e
‘Beyond the
Structure –
Activating the
Learning Space’
Cathryn Stephens
1A
Design Thinking
Steve
Collis
1b
‘What’s the problem’
Karen
Starkiss
1c
‘So you want
students to take
more responsibility
for their learning
at VCE level?’
John Eason
1d
affordances
Ken
Woodman
1e
‘Developing
Purposeful
Feedback’
Cathryn Stephens
9.00am Keynote Presentation “Innovating Learning to Engage Every Child” Steve Collis
11.00am MORNING TEA
2A
Design Thinking
Steve
Collis
2b
‘What’s the problem’
Karen
Starkiss
2c
‘So you want
students to take
more responsibility
for their learning
at VCE level?’
John Eason
2d
learning settings
(Part a)
Ken
Woodman
2e
‘Developing
Growth
Mindsets’
Cathryn Stephens
12.30pm LUNCH
This conference is open to Catholic, independent and
public schools. There are two subsidised registration
fees available: one for Catholic Education Wodonga
staff (St Augustine’s, St Monica’s, Frayne College and
Catholic College Wodonga), the other for staff at North
East Provision schools (Marian College, Myrtleford,
FCJ Benalla, Galen Catholic College and Sacred Heart
Yarrawonga).
Certificates of attendance are issued to all delegates,
meaning that the Creating Contemporary Learning
Conference can be credited towards teachers VIT
professional development hours.

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30 sessions to choose from, one transformational day
3f
‘Prezi’
Steve Iuliano
3j
ten technology
tools for the
classroom
St Augustine’s
Team
3g
‘Student
Collaboration with
Google Apps’
Shane Piper
3h
‘Self Organised
Learning
Environment – SOLE’
Kane Mayhew and
Kiara McLean
3i
student directed
learning
Catholic College
Year 8 Team
1f
‘iBooks Author’
Steve Iuliano
1j
‘Creating Conditions
for Learning’’
Brendan
Maher
1g
‘Google Apps & SIMON
at Marian College’
Paul McLoughlan
and Matthew
Summers
1h
‘The use of ICT
in English and
Humanities’
Michael
Russell
1i
‘A Day in the Life
of the Senior
Learning Centre at
St Monica’s’
St Monica’s
5/6 Team
2f
‘Game Salad’
Steve Iuliano
2j
‘Creating Conditions
for Learning’’
Brendan
Maher
2g
‘Google Apps & SIMON
at Marian College’
Paul McLoughlan
and Matthew
Summers
2h
towards open
learning
Catholic College
Year 7 Team
2i
‘Our Journey Towards
a Contemporary
Learning Community’
Sacred Heart
Yarrawonga Team
Friday 29 May
8.30 Arrival
8.45 Prayer and Welcome
Darren Hovey
Principal, Catholic College Wodonga
twitter.com/@dartahovey
9.00 Opening Keynote:
Innovating Learning to
Engage Every Child
Steve Collis Director of Innovation,
Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning
How can we personalise learning so that all learners thrive?
Since 2005, Steve Collis and colleagues at Northern Beaches
Christian School in Sydney have explored a range of
innovations to address this question. The innovations have
involved physical space, technology, project-based learning,
and much more. But the glue holding everything together has
remained relationship and collaboration.
Steve will explore the breakthroughs and successes that have
come to characterise how learning looks from K to 12 after a
decade-long journey, highlighting “easy wins” that have strong
potential to be applied across a range of contexts. He will also
show how elements such as technology and space can be
harmonised with pedagogy and programming.
www.happysteve.com twitter.com/steve_collis
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1A Design Thinking
Steve Collis
Director of Innovation, Sydney Centre for Innovation in
Learning
Come to this workshop to work hard in a team-based, hands
on activity where you experience design thinking first hand.
Design thinking is a method for galvanising a team to create
innovative solution to a challenge. This could include the
challenge of personalising a learning program, but could
equally be applied to the creation of a new excursion policy,
the launch of a school transformation movement, or the
simple planning of a phone call home to a parent. Often
called “human centred design”, design thinking anchors
solutions in insight and empathy for the people involved in
the context. As such it can generate better solutions that are
more effective when put into practice.
In this whirlwind workshop Steve will facilitate groups through
an accelerated design thinking process.
1B What’s the problem?
KAREN STARKISS
Director, Dyslexia Assessment and Support Services
Introduction to dyslexia, the most common and prevalent
learning difficulty. What it’s like to be dyslexic; strengths and
weaknesses? How we can confidently predict if a child will
have difficulties in reading? Response to Intervention; what
is means and why it should be a model all schools are using
for all students? How it can prevent problems first and then
brings increasingly intense interventions to students who
don’t respond?
dyslexiasupportservices.com.au
1C So you want students to take more
responsibility for their learning at
VCE level?
John Eason
Secondary Learning and Teaching, CEO Sandhurst
VCE teachers often comment on the need for students to
take more responsibility for their own learning - due partly to
the pressures for delivering content within tight time frames.
We also need to devise learning environments that demand
hard work from all (without excessive workload) but at the
same time avoiding de-motivating regimes based on grind,
fear and excessive pressure. As these features are not
consistent with the cognitive and motivational evidence for
effective teaching, how can we construct our VCE curriculum
to at least take some of these issues into account? A key
feature of learning is that complex knowledge structures are
built up by organising more basic pieces of knowledge in a
hierarchical way. If well constructed, such structures provide
understanding that can transfer to new situations – a critical
competency in the 21st century. This workshop will explore
ways of restructuring the current VCE study design to reflect
this developmental model of learning.
www.ceosand.catholic.edu.au
1D Spaces for learing
KEN WOODMAN
Director, No. 42 Architects
This discussion workshop will explore how spaces afford
opportunities for learning. Through critiques of photographs
of spaces, the actual physical space, and a group exercise
to analyse an imagined school building design, attendees
will come to understand how space has agency in learning
and that all is not as it seems...
www.no42architects.com.au
1E Developing Purposeful Feedback
Cathryn Stephens Founder Intuyu Consulting
This workshop is designed to provide teachers with a high
degree of clarity around how, when and why to create a
highly purposeful, formative feedback loop. Teachers will be
able to clearly link using Learning Goals (whole group and
individual), co-constructing Success Criteria and using these
as a sound basis for a rich feedback cycle which enables
students to access all sources of feedback in a strategic,
practical way. The presentation is based on the research of
John Hattie, et.al.
www.intuyuconsulting.com.au
twitter: @cathrynSTEPHENS
10.00 - 10.55am workshop session one
Choose one from the following 10 Workshops on the next two pages. Book one session in each timeslot.

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1F iBooks Author
Steve Iuilano
Education Consultant, Mac1
An introduction to iBooks Author. This software allows
teachers and students to create amazing professionally
presented eBooks with interactive images, video clips and
much more.
www.mac1.com.au
1G Case Study… Google Apps and SIMON
Paul McLoughlan and matthew Summers
Teacher & Senior School Coordinator, Marian College, Ararat
This session will demonstrate examples of how staff at
Marian College, Ararat use Google Apps for Education, as
well as practical tips and advice for each of the apps. The
school’s use of SIMON will also be outlined.
Participants will need to bring laptop / iPad.
www.mcararat.catholic.edu.au
twitter: @PAULMCLOUGHLAN
1H Using ICT in English and Humanities
Michael Russell
English Learning Coach, Catholic College Wodonga
Sharing practical ideas with fellow teachers who have similar
classes can be the most valuable learning experiences we
have. Yet we often sit through slow moving, laborious PD
sessions full of information that is great in theory but hard to
integrate into our classrooms straight away.This collaborative
session is designed for teachers to share lesson ideas with
each other regarding the way they have incorporated ICT in
the classroom. Let’s face it, the use of ICT in education is not
going to decrease in the foreseeable future. It is not enough
to know what apps, programs or websites can be used. We
need to know how they are being used.
If you have a lesson that has incorporated ICT in some way,
come prepared to share your experience and demonstrate
how you have used it in your classroom.
www.ccw.vic.edu.au

1I Case study … A Day in the Life of the
Senior Learning Centre (SLC)
Year 5/6 Team
St Monica’s Primary School
This workshop will look at the ‘Re think’ process for bringing
about and implementing change in the middle school area.
After a brief overview of how the 5/6 SLC team at St Monica’s
Primary School Wodonga have brought about change, we
will look closely at how some of their teaching strategies and
processes work.
Examples and resources will be provided to assist in
implementing ideas in other schools.
www3.smwodonga.catholic.edu.au
1J Creating the Conditions for
Learning
Brendan Maher
Principal
This workshop is a conversation about how we best create
the conditions in our schools to maximise how engaging,
contemporary learning can flourish. Brendan will call on his
experience as the founding principal of the first new school in
the Ballarat Diocese in over 20 years to enlighten delegates
about how they might contend with change, a constant
reality of this profession.
11.00 Morning tea
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11.30 - 12.25pm workshop session two
2A Design Thinking
Steve Collis, Director of Innovation, Sydney Centre for
Innovation in Learning
2B What’s the problem?
KAREN STARKISS
Introduction to dyslexia, the most common and prevalent
learning difficulty. What it’s like to be dyslexic; strengths and
weaknesses. How we can confidently predict if a child will
have difficulties in reading. Response to Intervention; what
is means and why it should be a model all schools are using
for all students. How it can prevent problems first and then
brings increasingly intense interventions to students who
don’t respond.
VCE level?
John Eason
2D Learning Settings (part a)
KEN WOODMAN
In this workshop attendees will undertake a hands-on
exercise to explore the relationship between learning and
space. Attendees will work in groups and will move from a
learning experience to design learning settings that will fully
support that experience. The exercise will explores a typical
learning activity, through the immediate physical setting,
to the wider interconnected surroundings to create built-
pedagogy. The collaborative sessions will bring space to the
fore and assist attendees in thinking about space as part of
their lesson plans…. and you get to use scissors!!
Participants will continue this workshop in 3D Learning
Settings (Part B)
www.no42architects.com.au
2E Developing growth mindsets
Cathryn Stephens
Founder Intuyu Consulting
What does lead to people being able to perform? In this
interactive session you will explore what teachers and
school leaders can create to structure not only the school
environment such that there is an empowering learning
centred environment but also the actions and practices
teachers can embed to develop a growth mindset to learning
twitter: @cathrynSTEPHENS

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2F game salad... programming for the
mac
Steve Iuilano
Forget complicated logarithms or coding, learn to create
a game from scratch using this free program on the Mac.
‘Game Salad’ allows you to learn the fundamental principles
of programming without having to know Objective C or other
programming languages. A fascinating workshop.
Participants will need to bring their laptop / iPad with the app
downloaded.
www.mac1.com.au
1G Case Study … Google Apps and SIMON
Paul McLoughlan and matthew Summers
Teacher & Senior School Coordinator, Marian College, Ararat
This session will demonstrate examples of how staff at
Marian College, Ararat use Google Apps for Education, as
well as practical tips and advice for each of the apps. The
school’s use of SIMON will also be outlined.
Participants will need to bring their laptop / iPad.
www.mcararat.catholic.edu.au
twitter: @PAULMCLOUGHLAN
2h towards open learning
Year 7 learning and teaching team
catholic college wodonga
A new learning space for the Year 7 community at Catholic
College Wodonga has brought about fresh challenges and
new experiences for our 2015 teaching staff. A pedagogical
shift to open learning has led to increased collaboration,
experimentation and a willingness to trial exciting new
approaches to teaching. The Year 7 Team continues to
explore effective strategies to teach content in a space
designed to encourage independent and resourceful
students. This workshop provides opportunities for teachers
to hear what has worked so far, what is planned for the
future and, just as importantly, what has been learnt from
our not so successful experiences! Ideal for teachers who
are interested in sharing ideas about utilising such a space
and hearing from those staff at Catholic College who are ‘on
the ground’ in 2015.
sam.benstead@ccw.vic.edu.au
2I Case Study … Our Journey Towards a
Contemporary Learning Community
Sacred Heart Yarrawonga PS Leadership Team
This workshop will give participants an understanding of
the practical, warts and all journey towards contemporary
learning at Sacred Heart Primary School, Yarrawonga. Staff
recently completed a three year transition that saw them
plan and build a completely new school. Throughout the
transition they also implemented many changes in curriculum
implementation to suit their ‘open plan’ environment.
www3.shyarrawonga.catholic.edu.au
2J Creating the Conditions for
Learning
Brendan Maher
Principal
This workshop is a conversation about how we best create
the conditions in our schools to maximise how engaging,
contemporary learning can flourish. Brendan will call on his
experience as the founding principal of the first new school in
the Ballarat Diocese in over 20 years to enlighten delegates
about how they might contend with change, a constant
reality of this profession.
www.coolah-c.schools.nsw.edu.au
12.30pm Lunch
Will be served in the Catherine McAuley Arts Centre.
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1.20 - 2.15pm workshop session three
3A Design Thinking
Steve Collis,
Director of Innovation, Sydney Centre for Innovation in
Learning
3B What’s the solution?
KAREN STARKISS
How to create an inclusive learning environment: strategies
and approaches to support students with Learning
Difficulties/Disabilities and raise the potential for all students.
Accommodations, tools and technologies to support
students; to allow them to learn and demonstrate what they
know and understand. Numerous resources to support
teachers and students.
Participants must have done 1B or 2B for Session Two (or
have completed the Dyslexia Workshop at Catholic College
in 2014), as this is a continuation of the areas covered.
VCE level?
John Eason
3D Learning Settings (part b)
KEN WOODMAN
Continuing on from Session Two, attendees will undertake
a hands-on exercise to explore the relationship between
learning and space. Attendees will work in groups and will
move from a learning experience to design learning settings
that will fully support that experience. The exercise will
explores a typical learning activity, through the immediate
physical setting, to the wider interconnected surroundings to
create built-pedagogy. The collaborative sessions will bring
space to the fore and assist attendees in thinking about
space as part of their lesson plans…. and you get to use
scissors!!
3E beyond the structure... activating
the learning space
Cathryn Stephens
Founder Intuyu Consulting
This workshop will draw on Cathryn’s experiences in a wide
range of settings to provide teachers with a checklist of
essential attributes for their Effective Learning Space (ELS).
It will include looking at creating purposeful spaces for
using feedback effectively, making the shift from ‘displays’
to annotated work samples and activating learning goals
and success criteria as permanent, but highly dynamic
cornerstones of the learning environment. In the resource-
rich twenty-first century, pedagogy and space cannot be
separated!

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3F prezi
Steve Iuilano
Delegates coming to this session will uncover the benefits of
using free animated online cloud-based presentations. Prezi
works on most platforms, looks great, is easy to learn and
typically makes presentations appear more interactive and
fantastic!
Participants will need to bring their laptop / iPad. Catholic
College will provide internet access for this workshop.
www.mac1.com.au
3G Case Study? …. Student
Collaboration with Google Apps
shane piper eLearning Coach, Catholic College Wodonga
Much as been written about the need for students to become
effective collaborators in order to be successful citizens in
the 21st century. In this workshop teachers will be presented
with some practical collaborative learning tasks that make
use of Google Apps, some of which are in use at Catholic
College Wodonga?. This workshop is genuinely targeted for
all secondary school teachers, including those who teach
Year 12!
Participants will need to bring their laptop / iPad.
shane.piper@ccw.vic.edu.au
3H Self Organised Learning
Environment (SOLE)
Kane Mayhew and Kiara McLean
st monica’s primary school
Child driven learning is curious, engaged, social,
collaborative, motivated by peer interest and fuelled by
encouragement and admiration. A SOLE lesson attempts to
put students in the driver’s seat as they try to find answers to
a range of big questions.
www3.smwodonga.catholic.edu.au
3I student directed learning
Year 8 team catholic college wodonga
This workshop will focus on the Year 8 Team’s journey
from individual classes to an integrated, student-directed
curriculum and the challenges and obstacles we have
faced. We will aim to give you some practical ideas to take
back to the classroom. With this in mind it would be much
appreciated if you could bring in a unit outline that you like to
develop into a Bloom’s Taxonomy Grid.
logan.hayward@ccw.vic.edu.au
3j ten technology tools for the
classroom
st augustine’s primary school
St Augustine’s teacher will present a variety of tools they
use to engage students in learning and teaching. The
use of technology from Foundation to Year 6 will enhance
your learning environment and assist students to become
independant self directed learners. Come along and let us
share with you these 10 handy tools.
www3.sawodonga.catholic.edu.au
2.25pm closing summary
2.45 Refreshments

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STEVE COLLIS
Director of Innovation
Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning
Edu-Innovator, Idea Merchant, Strategist,
Facilitator, Speaker, Writer, Mad Inventor, Tech-
Whisperer (Linked In page) (Aust, International)
Steve Collis is Director of Innovation at Sydney Centre for
Innovation in Learning (SCIL), an innovation unit embedded
in Northern Beaches Christian School in Sydney (NBCS).
With the SCIL team, Steve has travelled the world seeking
out examples of exemplary learning innovation. The best
ideas are tested, embedded, and scaled at NBCS and
then offered to educators worldwide through immersion
experiences and design programs. Steve facilitates
innovation at schools around Australia and beyond. He
helps colleagues re-envision virtual and physical spaces to
facilitate personalised, purposeful learning and increased
student engagement and agency. Steve also works with
leadership teams to create strategies that promote a culture
of innovation and perpetual transformation. He believes
relationship, collaboration, and relevance lie be at the heart
of great learning. Steve has been awarded ‘Excellence by a
Teacher’ (National Quality Schools Awards) and ‘Microsoft
Innovative Teacher of the Year’.
CATHRYN STEPHENS
Founder Intuyu Consulting (Aust, International)
Cathryn is the Lead Educational Designer
at Intuyu Consulting. She has taught in
secondary schools across all major sectors
and at both co-educational and girls’
schools. During her time in the classroom,
Cathryn worked on a broad range of both government and
independent initiatives focused on Inquiry Based Learning,
Thinking Curriculum, student leadership, and student
engagement. She has expertise in designing innovative,
in-depth inquiries that challenge students to develop the
key competencies set out by curriculum authorities and to
assess these competencies authentically and explicitly.
Cathryn has high-level coaching skills and is experienced
in supporting teaching teams – both in the classroom, and
in planning and preparing to teach the twenty-first century
learner. She is a highly creative personality who is able to
assist teams to find solutions that suit their school context –
and to reflect purposefully on teaching practice. Cathryn has
just completed her Masters of Instructional Leadership led
by Professor John Hattie at Melbourne University.
Brendan maher
Married to Jillian for 31 years, father to Gerard, 27, Damien,
24 and Madi, 22. Teacher and Principal, involved in Catholic
education for 36 years, 23 of which as a Principal.
Overseeing the development of Emmaus Catholic Primary
School, the first new school in the City of Ballarat of any
denomination for over twenty years, has undoubtably been
a career highpoint.
KAREN STARKISS
DIRECTOR, Dyslexia Assessment and Support Services
Karen Starkiss: brings over 30 years of
experience as a teacher of primary &
secondary students. In England, she was
Principal of one of the top performing
primary schools, despite the fact that she
had the highest number of students with
severe Learning Difficulties in the County. She has also
worked in “failing” schools to quickly improve standards of
teaching & learning. She is owner of Dyslexia Assessments
& Support Services & Director of Learning & Development
for Speld Victoria. Karen has wide experience in assessing
dyslexic children, teenagers & adults for learning difficulties
& provides in-service PD to schools. Karen has been
interviewed by the Age & on ABC radio about her expertise
in dyslexia & has advised A Government Task Force in
Canberra about children with LD. Karen has also worked
with the Education Departments in the ACT & Northern
Territories, to put together a program to help all schools
become inclusive & accessible to all students, providing
training for Expert & Lead teachers & professionals. She is
currently on the Focus Group for DET Victoria, advising on
their new strategy for students with LD including dyslexia.
Ken woodman
DIRECTOR, No. 42 Architects
(Australia, South Africa, USA, UK, Canada)
Dr Ken Woodman has practiced
architecture around the globe in UK, South
Africa, Canada, USA and Australia. For
the last two decades he has designed
educational buildings in Victoria and New South Wales and
is now the sole director of his practice No. 42 Architects in
Beechworth. In 2008 he gained a scholarship to complete
a PhD at the University of Melbourne with the Smart Green
Schools team. The thesis was titled Re-Placing Flexibility:
An investigation into flexibility in learning spaces and
learning. During this doctorial process Ken studied both
architectural and educational philosophers and believes that
learning occurs during a transaction between the learner
and their learning environment. Ken also lectures at the
University of Melbourne in the Masters subject for Educators
and Architects Innovative Spaces and Pedagogy. He has
presented at conferences, run professional development
workshops, and written academic papers and chapters on
various aspects of space and learning.
Paul McLoughlan
Teacher, Marian College, Ararat
Paul has 17 years experience teaching in
secondary schools and is currently teaching
at Marian College in Ararat, Victoria. His
main area of teaching is Physical Education,
he also teaches Maths, Science and RE.
Paul has had many years of experience
using Google Apps and enjoys exploring new opportunities
to integrate technology in the classroom.
Presenters

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Matthew Summers
Senior School Coordinator, Marian College, Ararat
Matthew has taught in Secondary schools
for 25 years. He has held many different
leadership positions, most recently the
Senior School Coordinator at Marian
College. His specialty areas include VCE
Legal Studies & Business Management and
he is an experienced user of GAFE & SIMON.
Steve Iuliano
iBooks Author and Education Consultant, Mac1
Steve Iuliano is responsible for MAC1‘s
Educational Professional Development
and Training and is based out of MAC1’s
Sydney location. With many years in the
music industry as a signed artist / audio
engineer and holding a formal qualification
in teaching, with both undergraduate and postgraduate
qualifications, Steve understands how technology can be
integrated into classrooms in order to achieve curriculum
based outcomes. He strives to deliver engaging lessons
for both teachers and students through relating the
material delivered to scenarios that might be encountered
in schools on an everyday basis. Running both staff and
student PD sessions all around Australia, ranging from small
personalised workshops to large seminar deliveries, Steve
develops PD sessions to cater for specific needs!
Michael Russell
English Learning Coach, Catholic College Wodonga
Mick Russell is the English Coach at
CCW and has taught in Victoria’s Western
District as well as the United Kingdom.
A self-confessed technological ‘battler’,
Mick is determined to break down the
apprehension many teachers feel about
the ever increasing use of technology in our schools. This
session is designed for teachers to share ideas and discuss
different ways of incorporating ICT into their own curriculum.
Teachers will be exposed to some ideas Mick uses in his
own senior English classrooms, and they will be encouraged
to think about how this could best be adapted to suit their
own classroom needs.
Shane Piper
Over the past 15 years Shane has taught
Mathematics, ICT, Science and PE across
Years 7 to 12. Throughout that time Shane
has successfully integrated technology into
the classroom; including online delivery.
He has also held various school leadership
positions; for many years now he has focused on eLearning.
Shane has nearly completed his Masters in Education.
Catholic College Year 7 team
From graduates with fresh ideas to staff with 30+ years of
experience; the 2015 year 7 team at Catholic College is a
combined group of passionate teaching individuals. Eager
to utilise a new Open Learning Centre, the 2015 team has
had to move swiftly to trial new teaching methods in a new
teaching environment. With expertise in Literacy, Numeracy,
Science, Humanities and Religious Education the 2015 year
7 team have been quick to explore the ‘brave new world’ of
Open Learning.
Catholic College Year 8 Team
The Year 8 Team at Catholic College has varied experience
across all levels of teaching and a broad range of subjects.
Our goal is to provide students with a flexible working
environment to become passionate, self-motivated learners.
We endeavour to try new methods of teaching and aim to
adapt our teaching and surroundings to the needs of our
students using a model that is based in evidence.
sacred heart leadership team
Members of this team have worked in partnership and
consultation with the entire staff and our school community
to create our vibrant learning environment. Our journey is
not over its very exciting to reflect on what we have achieved
in such a short timeline.
Kane Mayhew and Kiara Mc Lean
Kane and Kiara both teach at St Monica’s Primary School,
Wodonga. They both started using SOLE’s to engage their
students last year and have found it a great way for their
students to discover and inquire in their classrooms.
St Monica’s 5/6 Team
In 2012 the Senior Learning Team received the Educate
Award for innovation in teaching and they continue to re-
think and evolve their learning environment. The 5/6 Team is
currently working with a 1 to 1 laptop program and support a
self directed learning approach.
John Eason
John has held a variety of curriculum roles in schools over
30 years teaching. His experienced has centred on Years
10 – 12 continua in Science and Mathematics but his current
role as a Sandhurst Diocese Education Office has enabled
a broadening of these roles into other subject areas. John
has also been working with Primary Schools on F – 12
developmental sequences. John has a strong commitment
to evidence based student learning and has extensive
experience in the use of data to analyse specific student
areas of need. His recent extra studies have been prioritised
around curriculum structures for 21st Century learning and
applying these to current VCE Study Designs.

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PRE-CONFERENCE OPTION
Delegates arriving Thursday 28 May may a join tour of the
CEW Schools in Wodonga.
FREE bus tours
A bus will depart from Catholic College Wodonga at 9.45am.
The tour will display a variety of learning spaces, some
purpose built for open learning others reconfigured to create
contemporary learning spaces.
You will be able to see the use of old and new spaces in
St Augustine’s, St Monica’s and Catholic College. The tour
of Frayne College will show a 5 star sustainable school in
action.
St Augustine’s 10.00am – 11.00am
St Monica’s 11.30am – 12.30pm
Frayne College 12.50pm – 1.30pm
Catholic College 1.45pm
Lunch is included.
To join a tour, click here.
HOW TO BOOK FOR CREATING
CONTEMPORARY LEARNING
CONFERENCE
Visit www.stickytickets.com.au/24603
to register online. Your school will be invoiced for your
registration so no payment is required. You only need to
select your school category (eg. either CEW, North East
Provision or Other).
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ACCOMMODATION
Corporate discount rates have been arranged at Quest
Serviced Apartments, 46 Reid Street, Wodonga.
Click here to go directly to the Quest website. On the right
hand side you will find the client profile login (see below
circled in yellow).
Username: Catholic Education
Password: password
1. Select dates
2. Select room type
Telephone 02 6043 8300
EMAIL questwodonga@questapartments.com.au
TAXI
Albury Taxis 02 6025 2255
Amalgamated Taxis Wodonga 02 6024 3444
Contact us
For any dietary requirements, mobility access issues, hearing
or sight considerations, anything else we should know to
make your professional development day more effective?
EMAIL professional_learning@ccw.vic.edu.au
Catholic Education

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