We’re excited to present the eighth in our 'Deep Dives' series, showcasing real schools across Australia that have been leveraging Life Skills GO for the past seven years.

Join Stephanie Giles, Deputy Principal of Guildford West Public, Nikki Bonus, CEO and Founder of Life Skills Group for an interactive and insightful exploration into the innovative strategies employed by Guildford West Public School, as they harness Life Skills GO’s comprehensive wellbeing data to drive and inform whole school wellbeing and student support, fostering a sense of belonging and supportive learning environment.

Led by Stephanie Giles, Deputy Principal this webinar will delve into the practical application of a data-driven whole-school wellbeing framework using Life Skills GO at Guildford West Public. She will share how they’ve successfully embedded Life Skills GO across their entire school over the past seven years. Discover the lessons they’ve learned along the way and their best practice suggestions that have ensured all staff and students understand the value of Life Skills GO.

Stephanie will provide insights into how they’ve integrated and customised Life Skills GO in their learning support classes, and how their executive team leverages the platform’s data, right through to their SAM and school counsellor. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from real-world experiences and gain actionable strategies to enhance your own school’s whole-school wellbeing strategy.

We all know there’s more to wellbeing than just monitoring attendance, behaviour, and conducting periodic surveys. Wellbeing is becoming increasingly critical, and it’s a focus for education systems globally. So, how do we track and monitor the impact of our wellbeing programs without sacrificing teaching and learning time? How do we empower teachers with the real-time information they need to support students? And how do we engage in an authentic, continuous improvement cycle to ensure our students are known, valued, and cared for? Stephanie Giles will share how Life Skills GO has provided the answers to these questions over the past seven years.

Topics discussed will include:

  1. Whole-School Approach to Wellbeing Data: Discover how Guildford West Public School seamlessly integrated real-time wellbeing data collection into their daily operations, fostering a culture where student voice is valued, and staff engagement is paramount. Learn how they action this data daily.
  2. Holistic Insights: Gain valuable insights into student wellbeing today by exploring the data collected, examining contextual factors that influence student emotions and readiness to learn and how this can be effectively triangulated with traditional wellbeing data such as attendance and behaviour for a whole student understanding.
  3. Data-Driven Understanding: Understanding the factors impacting readiness to learn and the response that can be proactively provided, as revealed by the wealth of real-time and longitudinal data collected through student check-ins.
  4. Evaluating Wellbeing Programs: Recognise the importance of measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of wellbeing programs to optimize support, improve learning outcomes, and address specific student needs.
  5. Taking Immediate Action: Comprehend the far-reaching effects of previous years on students and school communities. Take actionable steps based on data and insights shared during the webinar to support student wellbeing and create a healthier learning environment.
  6. Implementation of Life Skills GO Platform: Hear how they started and then implemented the Life Skills GO platform within existing processes, ensuring minimal disruption for staff while empowering students to take ownership of their wellbeing journey.
  7. Supporting Diverse Learners: Gain insights into Guildford West Public School's inclusive approach, catering to both mainstream and support classes, and the strategies employed to ensure equitable support for all students.
  8. Lessons Learned: Benefit from the school's experiences and reflections, offering valuable insights for educators embarking on similar journeys.

This webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear practical strategies and firsthand experiences from Stephanie Giles successful implementation of whole school wellbeing initiatives. Whether you're an educator, administrator, or stakeholder in student wellbeing, join us to explore ways to enhance student support and cultivate a nurturing learning environment.

Register now to secure your spot and gain actionable insights from Stephanie Giles transformative approach to measuring and implementing whole-school student wellbeing. And don’t forget to bring your questions along.

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00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – The beginning of Life Skills GO
04:00 – Intro to Stephanie from Guildford West – What is your why?
05:20 – What were you doing before Life Skills GO? How were you measuring wellbeing and identifying student needs?
08:11 – How did you get staff buy-in for implementing something new?
09:30 – The key to successful implementation
10:30 – Giving teachers and educators a tool to engage and communicate with parents/carers.
12:30 – Using Life Skills GO in support classes and the benefits
14:00 – Identifying and regulating emotions: explicit teaching of emotions and a young person’s example.
17:50 – We have a common language for emotional awareness and regulation
19:34 – What are current challenges schools face in supporting whole school wellbeing?
20:40 – About Guildford West PS community and context
21:15 – Sustaining and maintaining the check in consistency over time: new staff, current staff, casuals.
24:30 – Daily routine: How are you using the wellbeing data daily?
26:40 – Using the wellbeing data to support students and staff
30:10 – Has any wellbeing data surprised you?
31:36 – Utilising and empowering student voice to show them that we care
38:00 – How has the readiness to learn data helped your teachers?
39:50 – Embedding readiness to learn and wellbeing as a school culture.
42:20 – Key lessons for embedding a whole school framework and approach
44:30 – Any mistakes in the early days of implementing Life Skills GO
46:30 – Stephanie’s Top Tips for new schools starting with Life Skills GO.

 

ABOUT OUR EXPERTS

Stephanie Giles has been working in the area of Special Education and Learning Support for 15 years and holds a Bachelor of Education and Masters of Special Education. She is currently the Deputy Principal at Guildford West Public School, with her role focused primarily on wellbeing as well as on overseeing the school's Learning Support Team. This involves supporting students with social and emotional difficulties, mental health disorders, complex learning needs, diagnosed disabilities, learning difficulties and trauma. She has worked across special education and mainstream settings and is passionate about supporting student wellbeing and enhancing learning opportunities for all students in the areas of social and emotional learning.

Nikki Bonus is an experienced ed-tech founder and CEO of Life Skills Group, harnessing more than 20 years of deeply personal and professional experience in the development and delivery of social-emotional literacy programs for individuals, organizations, and most importantly, teachers and students. Nikki’s work has helped give voice to more than 850 schools, connecting with 20,000 teachers and 500,000 primary school children to build a continuing evidence base of what works to measure, report and implement real improvements in Social Emotional and Physical Literacy for school communities.

 
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