Learning Conversations Inaburra School

Would you consider yourself an achievement junkie? Many high school students fear that their ATAR result will be a summary of not just their schooling career, but also their individual worth. How do we view success? Is it something we earn through our efforts and striving or as a matter of grace, or luck even? In this episode, Lyndal speaks with author and recovering achievement addict, Dr Justine Toh as well as Jess Meaco, who is a teacher of Ancient History and Inaburra’s Learning Leader of Biblical Studies, about meritocracy. The conversation explores connections between a constant striving for significance and the experience of shame, the impact of meritocracy in our educational system, and finding an antidote to achievement addiction.Achievement AddictionJustine Tohhttps://www.koorong.com/product/achievement-addiction-re-considering-series-justine-toh_9780647531327The Prophetic ImaginationWalter Brueggemannhttps://www.koorong.com/product/the-prophetic-imagination-2nd-edition-walter-brueggemann_0800632877
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We hear the word ‘community’ thrown around all the time, but what actually is it and why does it matter? In this conversation, show host Lyndal Tait speaks with Dr Jen George, an expert in community and governance, about what community means and how it makes us who we are. They discuss some key principles of community and how we can build it today.

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In this episode, host Lyndal Tait speaks with Inaburra’s PDHPE teachers Simon Wadds, Matthew Tolhurst and Ashleigh O’Keefe as they reflect on the lifelong value of lessons learnt on the sporting field.
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In this episode, host Lyndal Tait speaks with Leisa Aitken and Inaburra Principal Dr James Pietsch about hope – what we understand it to be and how we can build greater hope in our own lives and in the lives of young people. The conversation explores the ways hope is seen in our coping and waiting, in our capacity to see meaningful possibilities, and in the ‘glimpses’ which speak to realities that transcend the limitations of self and current circumstances.Leisa is a Clinical Psychologist with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and Masters in Psychology (Clinical) from UNSW. She has done further training in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a type of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) which she has found extremely useful, both personally and professionally. Her post graduate training has also been in Bowen Family Systems Theory which explores couple relationships, parent child interactions, and most importantly, looking at how all of these individual relationships are part of a much bigger whole. Leisa finds this to be a wonderful framework for looking at the complexity of how relationships impact us.
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In this episode, host Lyndal Tait speaks with Inaburra’s new leader of Learning Support, Vanessa Culbert about neurodiversity. Vanessa shares from her unique perspective as both as psychologist and teacher about how neurodiversity can be defined, the challenges it often raises for us in learning settings, and the potential superpowers of individual learners that we can tend to miss when we view neurodiversity through a deficit lens.
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In this episode, host Lyndal Tait speaks with Professor Michael Anderson and Inaburra's Learning Leader of Stage and Screen Glenn Snowball, about creativity in learning. Creativity is something which is inherent in each of us, and yet certain activities we engage in can strengthen that capacity. Michael shares a global perspective on where creativity education is up to, and Glenn speaks from the viewpoint of a teacher seeking to build students’ creative capacity for design thinking.
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