Big Picture News

Big Picture in Australia - A warrior (and worrier) in action

by Michael Traill AM, CEO, Social Ventures Australia

Some of the SVA team recently had the opportunity to be part of the first major Big Picture forum in Hobart. It connected and collected teachers and students from 17 schools around the country who have embraced the Big Picture approach.

The Age recently reported on Big Picture Education's work with Croydon community college.

Read the article here.

Australian educators are invited to register now for the 2010 Big Picture Study Tour

BIG PICTURE USA STUDY TOUR 2010: August 4th - 20th

See how the USA schools work, hear how they sustain

Big Picture Education Australia announces a US Study tour for August 2010

Join us on a visit to the Big Picture US schools and conferences.

You can meet one of the most daring educators in the world at the Big Picture National Conference in May.

Elliot Washor has recently been selected as one of the “Daring Dozen” - the Twelve Most Daring Educators in the World by the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Elliot is the co-founder and co-director of Big Picture Learning in the US, and the co-founder of the Met Center in Providence.

The Start of Something Big

Here it is: The first Big Picture Education Australia conference - ‘the start of something big’.

The conference will give you the chance to meet the leading Big Picture thinkers – National and International.

You’ll have a chance to encounter first hand the concepts and processes of one the great innovations in education – Big Picture, One Student At A Time.