a history gv brooks community school 1948 challenging / innovative student workshop sub-schools...
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A History
• GV Brooks Community School 1948
• Challenging / Innovative
• Student Workshop
• Sub-Schools
• “No Dole” beginnings
• Middle Schooling 7 & 8
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Enabling Structures 2004
• Staff work in teams
• Staff versatility
• Middle Schooling 7 - 10
• 3 Block Day timetable
• Farm, Birribi & Spanners
• “No Dole” embedded
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School Culture
• Inclusive
• Informal
• Supportive
• Permissive
• Flexible
• A Learning Community
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Essential Learnings Curriculum
• Thinking
• Communicating
• Personal Futures
• Social Responsibility
• World Futures
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Curriculum – Brooks 2004
• ELS-based model• 3 Parts
– Personal Interests– Toolbox– Celebration
• “We can make this work”
• Backmapping• Ready, Fire, Aim
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What next?
• Structure, Curriculum & Teaching
• Engaging the community
• Expansion?
• Adult Literacy
• Education and Training links
• Tasmania - A State of Learning
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Building a Community
• In the post-industrial world into which we are entering, schools will be located at the center of the community. Professionals who create new knowledge and meaning will be the leading class. Peter Drucker, 1995
PHOTOS OF SCHOOL