“Body Awareness and Emotions” is the first talk in a series hosted by the Brisbane Independent School Leadership Team for Term 1, 2021.

Join us in exploring how Emotional Intelligence (EI) changes and develops alongside how a child understands their role in the collective. This online session involves a presentation of the model as well as some pull out small group sessions to explore how EI has emerged in our own development. This is a useful session for everyone, whether they have a child in their lives or not as it explores some edges of recent research around how emotions are formed and how we make meaning in a collective.

This is an online session so please RSVP with the best email for you to receive the Zoom link. We ask that everyone brings along some headphones to the online session so we can restrict background noise.

Cost: $20 for general public and free for BIS Community Members and Future Families.

“Why do kids say no?” is the second in a series of talks hosted by the Brisbane Independent School Leadership Team for Term 1, 2021.

Deep dive into staged moral development to get an understanding of developmental theory, a core principle in our philosophy. This talk explores children’s ideas of right and wrong through the prism of Kohlberg’s Theory and how it impacts on school design and behaviour management. It is an interesting talk that may challenge how you understand the way children and adults interact as it provides insights into all our behaviours. 

Cost: $20 for general public and free for BIS Community Members and Future Families.

“BIS Curriculum and Philosophy” is one in a series of talks hosted by the Brisbane Independent School Leadership Team for Term 1, 2021.

Gain a solid understanding of the BIS curriculum in both theory and practice with this online lecture. This is a really important opportunity for every prospective parent as it will provide you with a broad understanding of what makes a BIS education unique. It is also valuable for any educators looking for a new way to explore curriculum. We cover an overview of the Expedition Learning Framework as well as touching on some key unique features that you will have not come across before:

• Transitions between groups based on Ego Development and Social and Emotional Development
• Multi-Perspective Pedagogy
• A Study Of Self (SOS) Program
• An Entrepreneurship Strand
• and much more!

This is an online session so please RSVP with the best email for you to receive the Zoom link.

Cost: $15 for general public and free for BIS Community Members and Future Families.

“The changing face of friendships in primary school” is the first in a series of talks hosted by the Brisbane Independent School Leadership Team for Term 1, 2021.

Sometimes it can seem like our children, partners and often ourselves, are barely able to organise  follow through with tasks without some external pressure driving us to get them down.  We know that internal drivers are what we are aiming for but sometimes it seems so elusive. Self Direction is a very complex interaction of thoughts and feelings that can either freeze us into inaction or drive us into creativity. This session explores the interaction of social and emotional learning on our ability to be as self motivated and self directed as we wish! Come along ready to explore yourself and set some goals.

This is an online session so please RSVP with the best email for you to receive the Zoom link.

Cost: $20 for general public and free for BIS Community Members and Future Families