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Proud, Skilled and Deadly Leaders
The Stronger Smarter Leadership Program aims to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students by enhancing leadership capacities and challenging school culture assumptions. Since 2006, the program has affected over 38,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through more than 90 leadership programs across Australia, resulting in better education and health outcomes. Participants with higher educational attainment are significantly more likely to be employed and have decreased rates of smoking.
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- 5. The Stronger SmarterLeadership Program aims to challenge and support participants to improve outcomes for Indigenous students by facilitating learning opportunities to challenge their assumptions about school culture and practices, enhance their leadership capacity to achieve school transformation and join the Stronger Smarter network of leaders creating positive changes in Indigenous education.
- 6. The Stronger SmarterLeadership Program has impacted on: • 2,000+ Stronger Smarter alumni ie: teachers, principals, community leaders • 540+ schools • Over 38, 000 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students • Delivered more than 90 leadership programs across Australia since 2006
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- 8. Outcomes associated with HigherEducational Attainment Increased workforce participation Improved health outcomes • “better education leads to better health outcomes” (Australian Department of Health 2011). • Likelihood of smoking decreased with higher levels of schooling – 15% of Indigenous people aged 15-34 years who have completed year 12 are daily smokers, compared with 68% who left school early (ABS 2010). • “Those with more education have better health for all levels of income…” (Australian Department of Health 2011). No educational attainment Year 8 or below Year 9 or equivalent Year 10 or equivalent Year 11 or equivalent Year 12 or equivalent 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 %ofIndigenousPeople(over15years) Highest Level of Educational Attainment Employed Unemployed Not in the labour force Year 12 graduates are 5x more likely to be employed than those with no educational attainment
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Acknowledge country, the people, the spirits & elders Hope that I behave in a way that honours them & honours my people Introduction Self – Kullilli Stronger Smarter – belief that we all have a story, today I’d like to share our story with you
- #3 Our work is born from our founder Chris Sarra & the work he was able to do at Cherbourg SS Chris was able to achieve some great outcomes Today we continue this work through the SSI where we deliver the SSLP This quote speaks to the core of our work & the SS approach…no matter where you go or where you look there is always strength. And that’s where we will always start the conversation
- #4 We’ve been able to articulate the SS philosophy to this…
- #5 And broken down to 5 meta-strategies What’s important to know here is that this is not a secret recipe for success however in schools across the country that are achieving significant outcomes you will generally find these things happening
- #6 We’ve done this through the SSLP We focus on transformational change, not incremental change, there’s a place for this but we focus on the latter We do this by looking in and looking out Creating change in ourselves as humans, as professionals, etc Creating change in our classrooms, schools, communities & homes
- #7 Through our leadership program we have worked with school & community leaders over the past 10 years
- #8 What does that look like? We’re fortunate enough & proud to have worked right across the country, in urban, regional, rural & some of the most remote communities in Australia
- #9 I know I’m preaching to the converted when I talk about this, but this shows why we do what we do Go through diagram This leads us to 2 core beliefs that we carry at SSI 1 is that every student, every ATSI student should receive quality teaching & learning and a quality education – whatever that is 2 that everything we need is in our communities, we don’t need to look elsewhere for the answers when is comes to ed programs & teachers
- #10 Proud to partner with MATSITI 2 key projects The delivery of a SSLP with Indigenous educators from across NSW 5 scholarships for Indigenous educators from throughout Australia to participate in our national SSLP held in Cherbourg