Asia Pacific Summit on Girls’ Education 2023

Attend the Asia Pacific Summit on Girls’ Education 2023 opening reception to network with fellow girls’ educators, hear from Dame Jenny Shipley — New Zealand’s first female Prime Minister and Alliance Patron, and enjoy canapés and champagne in the historic surrounds of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Conference registration opens

Welcome

Melissa Kilby – Chief Executive Officer – Girl Up

Improving teaching and learning in uncertain times
Prof Pasi Sahlberg – Professor of educational leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

Unlocking your future anything with an enterprising mindset
Nicole Dyson – Founder and CEO of Future Anything

MORNING TEA

Breakout session A

Breakout session B

LUNCH

Breakout session C

Breakout session D

AFTERNOON TEA

Breakout session E

Colour outside the lines: The intersection of culturally diversity and progressing learning
Tasneem Chopra – Cultural Consultant 

Day 1 closes

PARALLEL MASTERCLASSES 

1.Unleashing enterprising ideas in every classroom
With Nicole Dyson 

We’ve all been in the classroom when brainstorming has been met with blank stairs and metaphorical tumbleweeds rolling through the aisles. Classroom creativity doesn’t happen by accident.

This practical and hands-on Masterclass explores the conditions and constraints to set every classroom up for creativity, before connecting this to Future Anything’s Entrepreneur’s Odyssey; a practical framework that supports the ‘how’ of delivering entrepreneurial education in every classroom.

2. Do the secondary gains of anxiety reduce student motivation to overcome it? With Dr Judith Locke and Dr Danielle Einstein

Anxiety is a debilitating disorder which impacts one’s enjoyment of life and reduces one’s potential. But amongst all the angst, there’s some secondary gains to having the condition, particularly for female students who might find age-appropriate challenges at school significantly reduced because of an anxiety diagnosis. Unless the sly benefits of anxiety are acknowledged and directly addressed, then a student may opt to continue to experience the disorder rather than do the hard work of overcoming it and living a full life.

In this masterclass, clinical psychologists, Dr Judith Locke and Dr Danielle Einstein, examine the secondary gains of anxiety for many school students (and, often, the people directly involved in their care). They will then suggest ways schools can deliberately move toward slowly removing those benefits and encourage and assist students to work at overcoming the disorder.

Three dining options 

Bar to Bar: The Storey Bar and Post Street Social 

Sit-down dining option 1: Rockwall Bar and Grill

Sit-down option 2: Ball and Chain Grill 

Booked as optional extras, please check your registration as to whether you have booked a dinner.

BREAKFAST MASTERCLASS

Inspiring staff loyalty in a challenging recruitment environment
Presented by Fisher Leadership

While attracting and retaining staff is part of the recruitment challenge, often how to generate inspiring, high-performance expectations amongst staff to generate loyalty and a shared aspiration for the school, can be understated. This Masterclass will focus on these key concepts and how to build active loyalty from new teachers through to executive teams. Join Dr Marcele de Sanctis, an organisational psychologist, and Dr Amanda Bell AM, Jenny Ethell. Liz Jones and Liam King, for creative insights on the topic.

This masterclass includes breakfast.

Welcome to Day 2

Getting the message right
Dr Judith Locke – Psychologist

The Body Image movement – helping girls love and celebrate their bodies
Taryn Brumfitt – 2023 Australian of the Year
Dr Zali Yager – Author, researcher and speaker

MORNING TEA

Respectful relationships
Dannielle Miller OAM – Founder of Enlighten Education 

Breakout session F

LUNCH

Breakout session G

Breakout session H

AFTERNOON TEA

Breakout session I

Return to main plenary room

Raising the bar on girls’ wellbeing to improve all educational outcomes: The other side of the report card
Dr Donna Cross – Behavioural Scientist and Senior Researcher

Day 2 closes.

School visits Option 1

School visits Option 2