Stories of Sustainability, Term 4

Thursday 5 November, Thursday 12 November and Thursday 26 November 4.00-5.00pm

Stories of sustainability is a series of online professional learning webinars showcasing sustainability across the state. You’ll get to hear from a range of teachers who each have a have different perspective, different projects and different student communities.

These stories are shared to inspire, to reassure and to help you work on sustainability too!

Embedding sustainability in our schools will remain critical over the next decade. It will mean that our communities will have the skills, understanding and opportunities to thrive within the boundaries of the interdependent and dynamic systems that support all life on Earth.

Thursday 12 November 4.00pm-5.00pm

Venkata Kalva and students, Brentwood College

Be the Change

‘Be the Change that you wish to see around you’. This famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi inspires Brentwood to improve its sustainability practices. Brentwood Secondary College is a 7-12 school in located in Glen Waverley and has 1650 students enrolled this year.

Venkat Kalva, the sustainability coordinator at Brentwood will be joined by the Green Team captains, Henry and Aanya, to present various milestones along Brentwood’s journey to become a four-star ResourceSmart school.

Thursday 26 November 4.00-5.00pm

TBC

Past Stories

Thursday 5 November 4.00pm-5.00pm

Amy Prendegast, and the Synergy Team, The Academy of Mary Immaculate

Collaboration, creativity and student directed learning in the CBD

The Academy of Mary Immaculate is located in the heart Melbourne and has created an innovative Year 9 program called the Synergy Program which makes use of our proximity to the CBD and empahises collaboration, creativity and student directed learning.

Join the Synergy Team from The Academy of Mary Immaculate and visual ecologist Aviva Reed as we outline our sustainability unit. Through exploration of the First Peoples’ stories, data collection, ecological thinking and artist-led hands-on experiences, the program seeks to engender a lifelong love for and care of the Yarra River.

Stories of Sustainability is part of the Education for Sustainability Starts with Teachers project.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government.