Webinar 1: Setting Up Term 1 & Refreshing Your Units - with CoolPlus
Description
Join the CoolPlus team for two short, sharp and practical lesson planning sessions designed to get you feeling confident and ready for a smooth start to the new year and beyond!
CoolPlus encompasses thousands of curriculum aligned lesson plans, which are meaningfully curated and compelling to spark curiosity, creativity and inspired action, while weaving in real-world topics and inclusive and diverse perspectives.
The best part? You can now use our AI Lesson Builder and Lesson Lab to edit, tweak, tailor and personalise them - or simply create your own from scratch!
Our Back to School Webinar Series will walk you through our catalogue and illustrate exactly how you can use our super simple AI tool to refresh or build lessons - so you can lighten your load, streamline the planning and sail into 2026 spending more time immersed in the best parts of teaching.
Webinar 1 - Setting Up Term 1 & Refreshing Your Units - With CoolPlus CEO + teacher-turned-founder Thea Stinear and guest, award-winning educator Alex Wharton on 10th FEB 2026, 4pm - 4:35pm.
Webinar 2 - Weaving in Hope Pedagogy and Explicit Teaching - With CoolPlus Education Project Leads Amanda Tan and Mahnee Cooke on 17th FEB 2026, 4pm- 4:35pm. [Register Here]
Agenda
- 12:00 am - 12:05 am
Settle in & formalities: [Thea - 5 mins]
- 12:05 am - 12:10 am
Opening discussions: Lesson Planning with AI - Considerations: [Thea - 5 mins]
- 12:10 am - 12:20 am
CoolPlus walk-through: [Thea - 10 mins]
- 12:20 am - 12:30 am
LIVE demo: Creating and refreshing lessons [Alex & Thea - 10 mins]
- 12:30 am - 12:45 am
Stick around for support to get started, questions + promo offer [Thea - 5+ mins]
Hosted by
Thea Stinear - CoolPlus CEO & teacher-turned-founder
Thea Stinear began her career as a secondary teacher, where two curious students sparked her lifelong passion for climate change and sustainability. That moment in the classroom set her on a path from teaching to becoming CEO of Cool.org, one of Australia’s leading online education charities, and later founder and CEO of CoolPlus, a social enterprise now scaling internationally. Over the past 16 years, Thea has worked alongside teachers, philanthropists and changemakers to create thousands of high-quality, curriculum-aligned resources that connect learning to real-world impact. She is driven by a simple belief: education is one of the most powerful levers for change, especially when teachers are trusted, supported and empowered to lead it.
Alex Wharton - award-winning educator, researcher and literary advocate
Alex Wharton is an award-winning educator, researcher and literary advocate based in Gunnedah, regional New South Wales. He is a former Principal, has worked in all sectors of education from early childhood to tertiary, and in government and non-government contexts across his nearly two decades in education. He is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, researching media literacy education, and remains committed to secondary school education, currently at Gunnedah High School. Alex’s passion for teaching is unwavering; he is most at home in the English classroom, where curiosity sparks, stories unfold, and every conversation is a reminder of why teaching matters.
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