National Education Summit Melbourne Resources

Thursday 29 - Friday 30 August 2025

We thank our presenters for sharing their expertise with us all and for providing resources to reflect and share. Below are resources from various sessions across the event.

Wellbeing for Future Focused Schools:

• Andrew Oberthur - Strategies for educator well-being in the real world

• Andrew Murray - Who Cares for the Carers?

Diverse Learners Symposium

• Kerryn Burgoyne - Autism in schools & mental health in children/teens

• Jade Wong - Navigating Education with Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Dual Lens of Parent and Educator

AI in the Classroom

• Ben Lawless - Think Like a Machine, Teach Like A Dream: Using computational thinking to supercharge your teacher productivity with AI

• Sharaf Goussous - Integration AI Technologies into Classroom Practice

• Michelle Ware - Learning design in the age of Gen AI

• Clarence Goh - Delivering effective classroom by Harnessing the power of AI - Innovative Ideas for Projects across all subjects

Capacity Building School Libraries

• Trish Trchala, Caterina Chng & Jemma Trchala - Your Voice Library Program

• Mali Jorm - Inspiring Interventions

• Raffaela Grasso - Embedding digital and global citizenship skills in a library program

Knowledge Centre

• Peter Buckingham - Strategic Planning for Schools - Hope is not a Strategy!

• Kim Nuske - Australian Teaching Assistant Professional Standards – A performance and professional growth framework for schools

• Michelle Ware - Powerful PD: Focusing on the teaching rather than the teacher

• Jaclyn Lees - Turning Waste into Wonder: Sustainability and the Food Waste Hierarchy in Schools

• Jarrod Pye - Top Super Tips for Teachers

Classroom of the Future

• Meeti Shah - Mindflight7 Workshop - Virtual Reality it's not all about the tech!!