Some positive happenings

Some educators in parts of our continent are doing great things. We, unfortunately, don't always get to hear about these positive happenings, so when we do it's important to spread their existence - just in case people out there get too bogged down with the density of educational change.

In Western Australia there is a secondary school that has taken a new approach to its curriculum to address, what they refer to as the haemorrohaging of Indigenous students from the system. A radical change was deemed acceptable to all involved as the problem was so great. What was interesting (but not surprising) was that the first step towards fixing the problem was that dialogue between the stakeholders - the students, parents, teachers and school administrators - revealed how a lack of communication, and therefore ill informed perspective, had elevated the alienation of Indigenous students from education in the first place. Relationships were at the heart of the problem, and at the heart of the solution.

Read on... Swan View Senior High