9 August 2022
How can you best support your wellbeing programs while reducing teacher workload, improving learning and measuring all of your wellbeing activity with actionable, real-time reporting to create positive outcomes?
Watch this panel of leading educators as they discussed how they have addressed these needs by implementing an end-to-end technology platform into their wellbeing plans and how they are preparing for the year ahead.
In this one hour webinar, our experts discussed:
ABOUT OUR EXPERTS
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.
Marc Pedersen is a K-12 qualified educator and has been teaching since 2008 within Primary education. He has been the assistant principal off-class head of Wellbeing at Blaxcell Street Public School since 2019, which involved leading professional learning and initiating wellbeing programs and strategies to support 930 students and a staff of 96. The relentless mindset and focus on safety Marc obtained as an engineer with Qantas he has brought to education, in the form of wellbeing. Marc instils a focus on wellbeing via peer reviewed evidenced-based research and through explicitly taught strategies to support the social and emotional learning of all students. He knows that wellbeing is what underpins the success of the whole child and he looks forward to continuing this mindset as he starts in his new role as an assistant principal at Wollongong Public School in 2022.
Candice Taylor teaches at Killarney Vale Public School on the Central Coast. She wears many teaching hats; Teacher Librarian, Wellbeing Coordinator and Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction. Candice holds both a Masters of Education and a Master of Education in Teacher Librarianship.
Candice has been a critical contributor to the success of her school’s blended approach to wellbeing, which incorporates elements of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL), Zones of Regulation, and Life Skills GO. Within her District, Candice has led professional learning to the broader school community, speaking of Killarney Vale’s wellbeing programs, initiatives, and strategies, which have been recognised as "best practice”. Recently, Candice gave an informative and insightful presentation to her school’s Parent &Community (P&C) about KVPS’s implementation of Life Skills GO. This discussion gave the school’s P&C members a firsthand demonstration of the Life Skills GO platform and a greater understanding into the school’s proactive approach to supporting students’ wellbeing daily.
Candice has a profound commitment to wellbeing, whereby whole-school wellbeing decisions are underpinned by evidence-based research, explicit teachings, and data-driven practices. This ensures that every student’s social and emotional learning at KVPS is holistically supported so that students feel empowered to continuously move “Forward to a Better World”.
