E3 Connect April: Autistic Students & The Power of Entrepreneurial Education
Event description
What is happening in entrepreneurial education nationally and globally?
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APRIL THEME: Autistic Students & The Power of Entrepreneurial Education
Offering entrepreneurial education in a tailored way for students with seen and unseen disabilities to realise their own ambitions and goals using the vehicle of social entrepreneurship is critical to supporting students to thrive at school and beyond. It represents a different way to engage them in their passions, learning, mindset, skillset, and toolset development to leverage into employment or create their own!
Facilitators:
Dr Renae Jones (Young Change Agents) + Tom Griffith (Head of Teaching and Learning, Seaton High School, SA)
Guest Thought Leader:
Niki Welz from Autism South Australia, the oldest organisation in Australia specifically dedicated to autism. As the SA autism peak body and a service provider, Autism SA offers a strong representative voice, aiming to influence at local, state, and national levels and provide services across all ages in various environments. Niki is a qualified Special Education Teacher with a dual degree in Philosophy, passionate about supporting young people living with autism to thrive in their education and beyond.
Guest Educator:
Marianna Mastrapasqua from Cardijn College, South Australia, is a lead teacher and passionate about educating and supporting students with disabilities. Marianna teachers within The Marist Centre on the Cardijn Campus, a nurturing environment for students with disabilities. As part of their approach, they offer programs and encourage their students to pursue their passions through social entrepreneurship.
Agenda:
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Thought leadership: Niki Welz discusses Autism (autistic identity, educational context, and learning experiences), Educational Challenges for Autistic students and families and Strategic Priorities such as the Draft National Autism Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
3. Unconference: Mariana Mastrapasqua shares the Marist Centre journey, wins, current challenges, and/or future vision for social entrepreneurship for students with disabilities
4. Networking with educators across the country with provocations linked to the thought leadership on our April Theme
5. Event announcements and save the dates
Purpose: knowledge sharing, problem-solving, celebrating, thought leadership, professional development, and community creation
Who should attend: all levels of entrepreneurial education (EE) talent!
Exploratory Entrepreneurial Educator - curious, dipping your toes in, keen to learn more
Discovery Entrepreneurial Educator - discovering the opportunities, challenges, and achievements of EE
Resilient Entrepreneurial Educator - monitoring progress and accomplishments of your EE programs which grow yearly.
Celebratory Entrepreneurial Educator - collaborating and celebrating the achievements of your EE pathway approach
Lifelong Entrepreneurial Educator - actively engaged, supporting, and championing EE in your community
After each session, attendees will receive a professional development certificate from Young Change Agents recognising your attendance and professional development time and topics to contribute towards your mandatory professional learning hours.
Whether you are an E3 unconference alumni or keen to know more about introducing entrepreneurial education into your school and teaching practice, this session is for you!
We are excited to see you there.
Questions: contact Renae at renae@youngchangeagents.com
What is E3?
Based on the success of our 2022 Entrepreneurial Educators Exchange (E3) and 2023 Leadership in-person events, we are excited to introduce regular events to facilitate networking and learning from educators and leaders across Australia. The Entrepreneurial Education Exchange (E3) is a community of practice for schools and the wider eco-system involved in introducing and embedding entrepreneurial education into Australian schools. As an emerging discipline, schools can share successes, challenges, and opportunities whilst advocating for wider support and recognition of the value of this type of education as one part of a wider approach.
About Young Change Agents
Young Change Agents is a not-for-profit social enterprise that specialises in helping youth develop their enterprising skills, such as innovative, critical and creative thinking, using initiative, being adaptable, problem solving and decision making skills, as well as communication and collaboration. Our mission is to reach every young Australian to help them see problems as opportunities through the vehicle of social enterprise. We do this through school workshops and entrepreneurial education development in the form of professional development workshops, national un-conferences and technology which enables access to all.