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Barker College - Australia
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EDUCATION BEYOND BORDERS // A great event on Monday night where Rohingya refugee and genocide survivor turned educator and advocate Noor Azizah shared her moving and powerful story. A perfect setting for an update on @BarkerCollege's work in refugee education.
Delighted to launch the 2023 volume of our journal, Learning in Practice, earlier this morning at the Friday morning staff briefing. Great to do so in front of so many of our awesome colleagues!
For more, head to: lnkd.in/eSkEdrNm.
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Great to see the “New @BarkerCollege Staff Class of 2024” at Day 1 of their orientation today. Welcome!! We are delighted you are here!!
Our Executive team came together this week to finalise preparations for commencement and the year ahead.
Today we also extended a very warm welcome to all of our new staff joining the Barker team in 2024.
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As 2023 draws to a close, the Barker Institute wishes all our friends and colleagues at @BarkerCollege and further afield a Happy New Year! We've had a busy and fulfilling year this year and look forward to a great 2024 with you all!
A reminder about tomorrow evening's event, our last one for the school year. It would be great to see you there. Head to bit.ly/46J9eqB for details.
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We are excited to be hosting a @BarkerCollege Humanitarian Programs event about International Human Rights on Wednesday 8 November. Head to bit.ly/46J9eqB for details.
We are excited to be hosting a @BarkerCollege Humanitarian Programs event about International Human Rights on Wednesday 8 November. Head to bit.ly/46J9eqB for details.
Delighted to be presenting at @nbec_au conference today on our ongoing, 10-year longitudinal study: the @BarkerCollege Journey.
Great to be sharing about our longitudinal project, The Barker Journey, at the @SACSLearn Research Conversations conference in October.
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@barkerinstitute Dr Timothy Scott and Dr Matthew Hill will present their findings from student insights and observations about coeducational learning from an ongoing, longitudinal school-based educational research project, “The Barker Journey”. Register: buff.ly/42WZGFV
We are thrilled that former @BarkerCollege School Captain, Dr Nat Ware (’06) is back for a conversation about economic and entrepreneurial solutions to global problems. You are warmly invited to attend! Please head to bit.ly/BarkerNatWare to register.
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We are excited to announce that the Head of Barker College, @PJjHeath has been named School Principal of the Year (non government) and also achieved the much lauded award of Australian Principal of the Year at last night’s Australian Education Awards.
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Delighted to be supporting this @BarkerCollege event. You are warmly invited to come and hear Federal Member for Berowra, Julian Leeser MP speak on The Voice.
Head to bit.ly/BarkerInstituteTheVoi… for further details and to RSVP.
A new blog post, this one from our Dean of Character Education @PeterGGibson.
bit.ly/3qXCc69
Super to have Dr Matt Hill presenting on educator and student voice in research at the @AISNSWEvidence Research Showcase conference and about what happens at @BarkerCollege.
Great to have our Director, Dr Matt Hill, presenting at the @AISNSWEvidence Research in Schools Showcase on the place of close-to-practice research in the facilitation of learning at @BarkerCollege and further afield.
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Safe travels back, @timscott674!! Looking forward to you telling us about your time away.
And that’s a wrap!
Finished my Travelling Fellowship by presenting on the @BarkerInstitute longitudinal study I’m working on with Matt Hill to the @ECISchools Leadership Conference. It was great to share where we are up to with this project.
And now the trek back to Australia!
Great to hear it, @timscott674! Looking forward to hearing about this bit of your time away!
And made it! End of a four week Travelling Fellowship, thanks to @BarkerCollege. Presenting on the first four years of @BarkerInstitute’s ongoing, 10 year longitudinal study #ECISLeadership2023
This week's spotlighted article from our journal is on the Y6 @BarkerCollege Journey. "Community" and "Belonging" were the two themes that emerged. No surprises as the group were finishing up primary school and looking ahead to Y7 and secondary school. bit.ly/3Lpw8uN
Always happy to celebrate the achievements of @BarkerCollege teachers. Here, @AndyMifsud shared a summary of his doctoral project on blended learning models in secondary schools. Head to bit.ly/3UMo7Dd
While recent research suggests there is no clear consensus on how to teach academic writing, there is definitely a trend towards more explicit instruction on how to plan, structure and compose writing argues @BarkerCollege's Andrew Hood in his article bit.ly/3KNMsFA
Delighted to hear that our own @timscott674 has made it to @LeysinAmericanS in Switzerland to spend time as a Visiting Scholar at their school-based educational research centre.