Circle time training course participants have often asked for a space to share ideas and experiences after training. This is now available at http://circletime.typepad.com/ideas/
The "Whole Child" primary program which addresses social and emotional learning, wellbeing, human rights and citizenship is now available. The program is published by RIgby/Pearson Whole Child and has three primary levels with five themes: Emotions, Getting Along, Family and Community, CItizenship and Human Rights, and Health and Wellbeing. Each theme for each level has two posters and a story to stimulate discussion and reflection. The stories are by authors such as Libby Gleeson and are a wonderful resource for schools.
Sessions in blue are open to allcomers, others have restricted access.
NB Circle Solutions Intro days are restricted to 25, Trainer programs to 10.
Diary 2010
January 20th Walloon Primary School, QLD The Optimistic School
January 22nd Introduction to CIrcle TIme Solutions Adelaiade (Pearson)
January 27th Rozelle Public School Circle TIme Solutions
January 28th and 29th Victoria Schools (Macmillan)
February 25th Circle Solutions intro Sydney
Feb 26th and 27th Circle Solutions Trainer program
March 9th CIrcle Solutions intro Adelaide
March 11th and 12th Trainer Program (Hansberry Educational Consulting)
March 15th Circle Solutions intro Melbourne (Pearson)
March 18th Introduction to Circle Time Solutions Cairns (Pearson)
March 19th and 20th CTS Trainer program, Cairns
April 19th Clovelly Primary School CTS and Building Relationships
April 23rd Circle Solutions Intro - Tasmania, Hobart (Pearson)
April 28th AIS Sydney Changing Behaviour
April 30th AIS Sydney The Intra and Interpersonal Competencies of Leaders
MAY 3rd to August 24th in Japan and then in the UK
September 1st Social and Emotional Learning in Secondary Schools CEOM
September 8th AIS Sydney Student and School Wellbeing
September 23rd to 26th Dubbo KiDSCAN project
Diary 2009
January 27th Putney and Meadowbank Schools, NSW
January 28th Glen Katherine Primary School, Victoria
January 29th Balcombe Grammar School, Victoria
January 30th Somerville Primary School Victoria
February 1st Guilford Young College, Tasmania
March 6th Circle Time Training Sydney - open to all, max 25
April 20th Beenleigh High School, Brisbane QLD
May 1st Lightning Ridge School, NSW
May 9th Positive Psychology Conference: workshop
May 12th Circle Time Training in Sydney - open to all, max 25
May 13th Northern Sydney High School Teachers: Keynote: Relationships, resilience and connection
May 17th Network Conference Manly: Workshop
May 25th South Australia Primary Conference: two workshops : Adelaide
May 27th Association of Independent Schools: Being Belonging and Behaviour
May 29th Association of Independent Schools : Enhancing Intra and Interpersonal Leadership Capabilities
June 3rd Northern Sydney Middle School Teachers: Keynote: Relationships, resilience and connection
June 11th Sydney: Beyond Behaviour Management: Pearson Professional Development
June 22nd Thriving not Surviving Pearson Professional Development Sydney
June 25th Introduction to Circle Time Solutions: Sydney open to all, max 25
June 26th and 27th: Train the Trainer - Circle Time Solutions (limited to 10 places - all participants must have had initial introduction) Sydney
July 3rd Ascham School Circle Time Solutions
July 7th Rouse Hill Anglican College: Primary School: Beyond Behaviour Management: High School: Wellbeing and Connectedness.
July 16th Introduction to Circle Time Solutions Adelaide Pearson Professional Development Open to all, max 25
July 17th and 18th Trainer program - limited to 12 places - all participants must have had intiat introduction.= Adelaide
July 22nd to September 28th in the UK
October 8th Introduction to Circle Time Solutions Adelaide
OCtober 9th and 10th CTS Trainer program Adelaide
October 15th Introduction to Circle Time Solutions Sydney
October 16th and 17th CTS Trainer Program Sydney
October 19th Mowbray Primary School
October 30th 9.30 - 1.00 pm CTS Seminar for Primary School Principals Penrith District Office
November 6th Northern Sydney Counsellor's conference
November 10th ICAN conferene Adelaide
November 15th - 18th APPCAN conference Perth
December 3rd Melbourne Introduction to Circle Time Solutions Melbourne - Pearson
December 4th and 5th Trainer program Melbourne - Inyahead Press
December 17th Wheelerheights Public School Authentic Wellbeing and Engagement
December 18th Menai Public School, CIrcle Time Solutions
Diary 2008:
January 25th, 29th, and 30th: Teachers's in-service days NSW
February 18th - 22nd Learning through Community Service UWS
March 3rd Sydney Circle Time Solutions training at the Commission for Children and Young People - open to all - max 25
March 14th Circle Time Solutions Training Melbourne: run by Hawker Brownlow
April 3rd Blue Mountains Circle Time Solutions training at Lawson School - open to all - max 25
April 5th and 6th Positive Psychology Conference Sydney
April 9th - 15th Melbourne Catholic Education Office Melbourne Wellbeing Coordinators: Agents of Change
April 23rd: Circle Time training Adelaide - run by Pearson Education
April 28th Nambucca Valley Learning Community: Good teaching: Real learning - Macksville
April 30th : Glen Katherine Primary School, Eltham North, Victoria
May 12th: The Whole Child primary program: Social and emotional wellbeing. Melbourne: Pearson
May 19th: Circle TIme: Lang Lang and Toorabin Schools, Victoria
May 23rd Resilience and wellbeing: Canberra ACT Deputy Principals Conference:
May 26th AISNSW Workshop at the Pastoral Care Conference , Sydney
May 27th: Resilience and Relationships: Parent and student Forum Putney Primary School, Sydney
May 28th: Whole Child primary program: Social and emotional wellbeing. St George's Sydney
May 30th: Relationships and School Connectedness: Stonnington Primary School, Victoria
June 6th: Circle Time Solutions training at the Commission for Children and Young People - open to all - max 25
June 11th and 12th: Whole Child Primary Program: Social and Emotional wellbeing: Brisbane, Pearson
June 18th: Resilience and Relationships: Parent and Student Forum to be held at Carlingford High School, Sydney
June 20th: Circle Time Solutions training at Hawker Brownlow, Melbourne
June 24th Parramatta Catholic Schools Counsellors conference: Positive psychology and Strategies for Wellbeing
June 26th - 28th: World Education Forum Being, Becoming and Belonging Conference, Adelaide. Workshops on Circle Time and Social and Emotional Learning
June 30th Circle Time training Adelaide
July 4th: Strategies for school and student wellbeing : Davidson Cluster of Schools, Sydney
July 21st: Circle Time staff training Banksia Road Public School Sydney
July 25th Community Circles KIDSCAN Blacktown Council
July 28th St. Raphael's school, Hurstville South, Resilience / Bounceback session for parents
July 30th: Beyond Behaviour Management: Adelaide Macmillan Professional Learning
July 31st: Beyond Behaviour Managment: Melbourne Macmillan Professional Learning
August 6th Southern Metropolitan Student Wellbeing Conference Melbourne
August 7th Community Circles KIDSCAN Port Stephens Council
August 14th: School connectedness and resilience: Hobart Macmillan Professional Learning
August 15th: Beyond Behaviour Management: Hobart, Australian Education Union:
August 18th Adelaide: Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom DECS
August 22nd and 28th Personal and Interpersonal Capacities of School Leaders AIS NSW Sydney
August 24th Outdoor Education Conference Sydney: Keynote presentation and workshops
August 27th Beyond Behaviour Management AIS Sydney Part 1 of course
September 1st - October 6th in the UK.
October 16th/17th Glen Katherine School, Melbourne
October 24th NSW Itinerant Behaviour Support Teacher conference - Connectedness.
October 27th Beyond Behavour Management AIS Sydney (Part 2 of course)
October 29th Circle Time Solutions training Sydney
October 31st and November 1st Turner School Canberra: Friendships (early years and primary)
Beyond Behaviour Management (older primary) Living with Teenagers (Parents)
Teacher Resilience and Wellbeing (staff)
November 17th CIrcle Time Solutions training Melbourne - Inyahead Press
November 24th Catherine McCauley School, Sydney
November 28th Circle Time Solutions Training for ORIC Sydney
November 7th, 14th, 21st and December 5th Denistone Public School: ' Children can be Challenging' course for parents
December 8th Pymble Ladies College Academic Care
2007
January BPS conference in Glasgow on Psychological Wellbeing and Resilience. Co-ordinated a symposium on in-school relationships and wellbeing. Other speakers were James Park, Robyn Hromek and Kairen Cullen. The paper on teacher-student relationships was the subject of an article in the Times Educational Supplement. The original paper is available from the publications page.
Co-editor of a special edition on Educational and Child Psychology on Psychological Wellbeing and Resilience to be published early in 2008.
January and February Canberra - Emotional Literacy and Values.
Circle Time training througout the year in various venues.
May Keynote presenter at the AIS School Counsellors' Conference in Newcastle.
August Harcourt Leading Edge after school seminars take place in Melbourne. Beyond Behaviour Management
The Association of Independent Schools NSW with Dr. Toni Noble on the Personal and Interpersonal Capacities of School Leaders This is on June 1st and August 6th
July Northallerton North Yorkshire Educational Psychology Service : Positive psychology and a framework for emotional literacy
Parent Values Forums throughout the year
August Adelaide, Port Pirie and Cowell for Professional Standards in Education - Relationships
Port PIrie: Teachers New to the District - Survival skills.
August Children, Young People and Behaviour UWS School Counsellor Re-training course ( 20th-24th)
September Australian Guidance and Counselling Association Conference in Fremantle, WA - two workshops, one on the development of caring communities and the other on school counsellors as change agents.
October: Paper presented at the Australian Council for Educational Leaders conference in Sydney on EL and leadership
November Paper at the National Coalition against Bullying in November in Melbourne on the development of caring communities.
December Haringey Educational Psychology Service, London. Positive and Critical Psychology: Strategies for Wellbeing.
Materials on Friendship for the Australian Values Education initiative using Circle Time as a pedagogical approach will be available in all Australian schools by the end of the year.
Circle Time for Emotional Literacy is available from Footprint Books in Australia and also from Hawker Brownlow.
Hear Sue discussing the book on Radio National's All in the Mind. This book is a fully comprehensive guide to social and emotional literacy in the primary and secondary classroom. It has everything a teacher will need to start with Circle Time, including addressing some of the problems that arise - and will also provide the experienced practitioner with many new ideas. James Park, DIrector of Antidote has written the foreword. He says " This is a wonderfully lucid account of what needs to happen if Circle Time sessions are to promote the emotional literacy of children and young people" See discount offer on Publications Page.
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