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Conference Program CONFERENCE PROGRAM Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. 5—8 May 2018 2.05—2.35pm 4.30pm Breakout Series D: 3 parallel sessions Concluding remarks Ros Curtis / Alliance of Girls’ Schools Challenge, choice & knowledge of self Australasia in Year 9 Grace Kinch / Korowa AGS, VIC 6.00—7.30pm > Riverbank Room 6 Alumnae Reunion The power of student voice For interstate and overseas members Michelle Dean and students / St Aloysius College The Mac. Robertson Girls High School, VIC > Riverbank Room 7 TUESDAY 8 MAY Building a successful graduate Judy Maw and Jackie Barron / 8.45am—12.30pm St Hilda’s Collegiate, NZ Post conference school visits: > Riverbank Room 8 Two options — 1. St Aloysius College 2.35pm / Afternoon tea St Mary’s College 2. St Peters Girls’ 3.00pm Loreto College Single-sex schooling, STEM, and career Mary Mackillop College paths: Contemporary issues Profs Helen Forgasz & Gilah Leder / Monash University For further information contact Loren Bridge, Alliance Executive Officer: Single-sex schooling and girls’ Phone +61 408 842 445 achievement in Australia Email [email protected] Dr Katherine Dix / ACER
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The Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia is a not for profit organisation which advocates for and supports the distinctive work of girls’ schools www.agsa.org.au 4. in their provision of unparalleled opportunities for girls. Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. 5—8 May 2018
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2.25—2.55pm MONDAY 7 MAY Breakout Series B: 4 parallel sessions Riverbank Rooms What kinds of geeks are girls? Rebecca Ratcliffe and Yallana Brockwell / Wilderness School, SA 8.00am CONFERENCE PROGRAM > Riverbank Room 6 REGISTRATION Piercing perfectionism: Emotional agility, bravery and the role of 8.30am It’s time we talked: Pornography, young SATURDAY 5 MAY First Day. First class. individualised wellbeing Prof Erica McWilliam / Queensland University Rose Jost / Melbourne Girls Grammar, VIC people and sexuality today > Riverbank Room 8 Maree Crabbe / Risk and Reality 5.30—7.00pm of Technology Open Event Smashing maths anxiety in our girls What the data tells us: Gender lessons Mortlock Chamber, State Library South 12.45pm / Lunch Geneva Clayton / MLC School, NSW from Gallup Polls Australia with guest speaker > Riverbank Room 7 Anne Lingafelter / Gallup The Hon Penny Wong 1.45—2.15 pm Philanthropy in girls’ schools Sponsored by The School Photographer Breakout Series A: 4 parallel sessions AskRIGHT 10.30am / Morning tea > Riverbank Room 5 SUNDAY 6 MAY Fearless creators (STEM and problem- 11.00am based learning) 2.55pm / Afternoon tea Pornography in schools: Let’s get practical Riverbank Rooms, Glenn Carmichael / A panel discussion facilitated by Madonna Adelaide Convention Centre St Michael’s Collegiate School, TAS King with Maree Crabbe / Risk & Reality, > Riverbank Room 5 3.20pm Jackie Barron / St Hilda’s Collegiate School, How can we help our girls: 8.00am The developing resilient women project Kate Major / Firbank Girls’ Grammar School, Kristina Morgan and Nicole Caulfield / Letting them tell us Georgina Banks / ChangeABLE REGISTRATION Lourdes Hill College, QLD Madonna King / Author and Journalist > Riverbank Room 6 Holding patterns: How overbearing 8.30am The capacity of language to empower 4.20pm parenting affects girls’ schooling Welcome girls to become life-long and DAY 1 CLOSE Dr Rebecca English / Queensland University Julia Shea / Conference Committee Chair of Technology self-directed learners Girls & Sex: How young women navigate Heather Davis and Jill Bradford / 7.00pm desire, danger, performance & pleasure Wilderness School, SA Dining Out 12.45pm / Lunch Peggy Orenstein / Author and Journalist > Riverbank Room 7 BAR2BAR 1.30—2.00pm Driving gender equality in Australia & Fearless Bites: 4 six–minute Tapas and drinks at two of Adelaide’s most New Zealand: It’s time! speed presentations popular bars, Udaberri and La Rumba Breakout Series C: 3 parallel sessions Dr Terry Fitzsimmons / Centre for Research Entrepreneurship: Futures and fortunes into Gender Equality in the Workplace, UQ Creating strong female leaders LITTLE NNQ Rebecca Watts / St Mary’s AGS, WA Vietnamese in a laid-back venue for senior students Fearless custodians of wellbeing Ruth Massie / Seymour College, SA 10.40am / Morning Tea SEAN’S KITCHEN > Riverbank Room 6 Nicole Tuck / Collegiate, TAS World-renowned chef Sean Connolly serves Strengthening wellbeing Mirror, mirror on the wall 11.10am mouth-watering dishes and showcases the Kim Watkins & Cheryl Penberthy / PLC VIC best of South Australia Jody Forbes / Brisbane Girls Grammar, QLD Girls to women: The cycle of leadership > Riverbank Room 7 Dr Nicole Archard / Loreto College Social & emotional learning Marryatville & Prof Manjula Waniganayake / Rachel McKee / Seymour College, SA Fearlessness & empowerment Macquarie University > Riverbank Room 8 Rebecca Ewing / Santa Maria College, WA > Riverbank Room 8 2. 3.