FutureSchool

What will the schools of the future look like?

During 2022 ACEL was delighted to partner with the Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) to engage, share, and learn from schools that are making significant changes in schooling to meet the needs of the future.

ALL is a ten-year initiative by Koshland Education Innovation (KEI) designed to bring big ideas and new approaches in education to national attention. Each lecture around a big idea is delivered by an international thought leader and then supported by a two-year impact program.

In late 2020, the Australian Learning Lecture delivered its third lecture presented virtually by Valerie Hannon: Seeing is Believing: The Future School is here and a number of international case studies were published. ALL also supported Valerie Hannon and Julie Temperley to write a book based on their research called, FutureSchool published by Routledge in May 2022 (available from the ACEL bookshop) and Valerie featured in a podcast hosted by ACEL.

Three Australian schools were identified through an expression of interest process, with each of the schools presenting at the 2022 ACEL National Conference in Sydney as part of a focus on the future led by Louka Parry from The Learning Future. An overview of the project was published in The Australian Educational Leader Vol. 45, Term 2 2023. 

Emmanuel Catholic College, WA
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Katherine High School, NT
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Warakirri College, NSW
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Want to hear more?

The full podcast is available with sincere thanks to Cameron Malcher at the Teacher Education Review.

Or listen to excerpts from:

Ellen Koshland, Australian Learning Lecture

Louka Parry, The Learning Future

Sue Buckley, ACEL Project Manager