Leading Learning: Minds on Fire

This masterclass is for senior leaders who seek to embed critical and creative practices in their school.

Date: Monday, 4th November 2019

Location: AISNSW Conference Centre, Level 12, 99 York Street SYDNEY NSW 2000

Participants from: 
AIS Member Schools: $425
Any other school or organisation: $850

Standard Descriptors: 6 hours of NESA registered professional learning addressing 6.3.4 from the APST

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Presenter:

Michael Parker,
Headmaster, Newington College

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What's Involved?

Topics:

  • Critical and speculative thinking; what it looks like and how to nurture it
  • Communities of inquiry; asking the right questions, getting fascinating answers
  • Embedded and detached whole school approaches
  • Implications and application of theory and techniques in your context.

Presenter:

Michael Parker is currently the Headmaster of Newington College, following five years as the Headmaster of Oxley College. He received Arts and Law degrees from Sydney University, has a Masters Degree in teaching Philosophy to children and has written six textbooks in the areas of Legal Studies, Philosophy in Schools, and English.

Michael published Ethics 101: Conversations to have with your kids with Jane Curry Publishing in 2012, which has since been published in the USA. The second book in this series, Talk With Your Kids: Big Ideas, was published in May 2014, along with a second edition of Ethics 101, aptly renamed Talk With Your Kids: Ethics. Michael has had two novels published, including a Young Adult Novel Doppelganger, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award in 2007.