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​​​LEARNER AGENCY
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Collaboratively, our Learner Agency Mentors cultivate a vibrant community atmosphere while guiding students through distinct learning phases. These dedicated mentors engage with students to cultivate lifelong habits aimed at their success. By fostering a strong sense of community, we create a harmonious and sustainable learning environment, empowering every student. Through this supportive network, Learner Agency Mentors inspire students to surpass their potential, nurturing them as critical and creative global citizens.

If you have any ideas, thoughts, or questions please email me: learneragency@yerongashs.eq.edu.au

 



Student recommendations from recent Summit and Congress (with a picture from the summit/congress):

  1. Use assembly to address current affair issues from around the world: 'World Wide News'
  2. Use assembly to address a broad range of student interests – cultural spotlight, critical thinking etc: 'Catch up on Culture'
  3. Across a week or a day use curriculum and lunch time for student to have positive cultural experiences – food, music, dance etc: 'Yeronga World Tour' could be part of Multicultural day/week

 

What action is being taken:

  • World Wide News and Catch up on Culture at assemblies
  • For World Wide News the Amnesty group are presenting on the issue of Women's rights and the current movement in Iran. This will coincide with International Women's Day.
  • ​​Planning for Multicultural Day will happen soon and the Yeronga World Tour will be a part of that, updates coming soon.

 



Student Summit

​Students met and collaborated at the Student Summit on Care Class. Students were asked to reflect on the care class program and to offer recommendations on improving our care program. These are their three recommendations:

  1. Care Class Collabs – care class teachers create extra-curricular and co-curricular classes that interest them. Students then choose the activity they want to do. This means the care classes would be mixed groups of varying sizes and possibly across year levels.
  2. The plan – give care class teachers time to plan.
  3. The restructure – house points for turning up on time to care class and the roll to be marked as a pass out of care class. The main idea being that the roll is marked last instead of first and there is a reward for showing up on time.

 

What action is being taken:

  • The leadership team is reviewing care class and will consider the recommendation around 'Care Class Collabs' and 'The Plan'.
  • Ms Haswell-Smith will work with a couple of teachers to try out 'The restructure' to see if it has a positive impact on the use of time in care class then feedback to staff and students.​



YCONNECT


 

The Y Connect Project was a partnership between Yeronga State High School and researchers from Griffith University. The Y Connect Project brought students, teachers, school leaders, artists, arts organisations, and researchers together in an attempt to enhance young people's sense of belonging and connectedness, and to generate improvements in several aspects of learning. To address these goals, arts-based pedagogies were employed across the curriculum, teachers partnered with artists and arts organisations, and focused arts projects became part of the natural landscape of the school.


The image above provides a representation of the Project's key findings in relation to research question one – impact on students. It reveals that six critical connections were enhanced for the young people who participated in the Y Connect Project: connection to self; connection to each other; connection to learning; connection to and belonging within the school community (abbreviated to connection to the school community); connection to the Arts, artists and arts organisations (abbreviated at times to connection to the Arts); and connection to the future through the creation of alternate possible selves (abbreviated to connection to possible selves).

​Y Connect way is capable of adding real value for learners and learning by employing the expertise of artists in partnership with teachers and the curriculum and making use of the power of arts-based pedagogies.


YConnect Full Report

​YConnect Key Findings Report


The Educator Innovative Schools Award​ - WINNER​



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Last reviewed 12 June 2024
Last updated 12 June 2024