Join us at the 2025 Australian School Improvement Summit at the Wesley Conference Centre in Sydney, New South Wales on Wednesday 29 October.
registrations open soon
Knowledge Matters: why ambitious, quality
curriculum benefits all students
Knowledge is what we think with*. The most powerful fuel for our young people’s creativity and imagination is how much they know and retain. Knowledge-rich curriculum expands students’ capacity to understand, to contemplate, to think critically and to solve problems.
Our young people will face unprecedented challenges. They must be prepared for a world of unimaginable technological developments. Knowledge is what humans think with and what AI uses to simulate thinking. Humans, afterall, are the original large language models.
Knowledge will be more, not less, important in the future. Are we ready?
* With thanks to Dr Greg Ashman, who originally coined this term in his 2017 blog post.
Speakers and Program
American education advocate and author of The Knowledge Gap, Beyond the Science of Reading and co-author of The Writing Revolution, Natalie Wexler, will be a keynote speaker at the event. She will head a line-up that includes:
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The Hon. Prue Car, Deputy Premier, Minister for Education and Early Learning and Minister for Western Sydney, NSW
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Dr Jenny Donovan, CEO, Australian Education Research Organisation
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Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Executive Director, Policy and Evidence, NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation
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Dr Ben Jensen, CEO, Learning First
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Caroline Reed, Co-CEO, Ochre Education Australia
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Elena Douglas, CEO, Knowledge Society and the 500 Schools Project
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Manisha Gazula, Principal, Marsden Road Public School
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Dr Greg Ashman, Deputy Principal, Ballarat Clarendon College
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Jordana Hunter, Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Stacey Rowe, Program Lead, Fogarty EDvance and The 500 Schools Project
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Your Registration includes:
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Attendance at the Welcome and Networking Drinks, Tuesday 28 October, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
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Attendance at the full-day, Australian School Improvement Summit, including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
You can also purchase a ticket to attend the End of Summit Dinner. Last year’s dinner included a fascinating and wide-ranging 'in conversation' session featuring the Hon. Ben Carroll, Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Education in a dialogue with the Rt Hon. Nick Gibb. moderated by Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian. This year's dinner promises to be just as unforgettable!
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