The PDHPE & CAFS Podcast

Are you sitting there staring at your computer and the syllabus trying to work WHAT & HOW to assess your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class?

Look no further, in today's Podcast episode we unpack what you can do to create purposeful and meaningful assessment tasks for your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class (year after year without tearing your hair out!)

We unpack what you need to assess knowledge, understanding and skills to set your Year 11 Community & Family Studies class for success (so they are ready and prepped for the HSC). 

I share what you can do to assess your students with big picture concepts in the course to test knowledge, through application of understanding via case studies, situations & scenarios as well as assessing their skills in the course.  

If you are looking for some ideas, you will find countless assessment ideas and questions inside my Year 11 Community & Family Studies Course. 

My Year 11 Community & Family Studies Course supports Community and Family Studies teachers with strategic and purposeful ways to teach the Year 11 course so students are set up for success.

Join over 160 teachers across NSW who have are working with their Year 11 CAFS Crew in a more engaging, more purposeful & meaningful way!

To check it out and register, head to:

Look, no one has probably told you these things...it is not in the syllabus, I completely get it!

Have you been teaching Community and Family Studies for a while?

Are you a Newbie to Community and Family Studies?

In today's Podcast episode we unpack the 3 Biggest Mistakes Teachers are Still Making in Community and Family Studies in 2023. 

If you want to improve student writing to increase HSC results in Community and Family Studies this Podcast episode is going to be highly valuable to set your students up for success. 

The strategies, ideas, resources and templates I share during this Podcast episode are available in my signature program Strive. 

Strive supports Community and Family Studies teachers with a skills based approach to improve student writing to increase HSC results. 

Were you disappointed with your students' HSC results? 

Are you being asked to analyse your Community and Family Studies HSC data?

It is that time of year when your principal is knocking at your classroom door to get you to analyse results from the 2022 HSC. 

Community and Family Studies HSC RAP Data is an essential element of your data analysis where you can work out what was done well, improvements need to be made and necessary actions to improve. 

In this episode, we unpack the importance of analysing your Community and Family Studies HSC Results and practical steps you can use to review data from the 2022 HSC. 

RAP Data has had the biggest impact on my journey as a HSC Community and Family Studies teacher and I will share with you what I have done to use it to make strategic and purposeful decisions in my CAFS classroom. 

The data tells you so much to inform your practice as a teacher and it has certainly had a huge impact on my journey as a Community and Family Studies teacher. So much so, that my signature course Strive has been developed based on the learnings I made in my 16 years in the classroom as a Community and Family Studies teacher. 

Doors Open next week for the first time in 2023 and if you would like to grab early access, head to thelearnnet.com/strive

Check out the show notes at:

thelearnnet.com/46

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, a podcast for educators, teachers, entrepreneurs and Community and Family Studies students, I am joined by a very special guest, Megan Durham, who shares with us what we can do to protect our time, our energy and our wellbeing.

If you've followed me for a while you would know that time, energy and wellbeing is the core of The Learning Network, so when Megan I connected, I knew instantly that I wanted her on the podcast.

This episode is really awesome if you're feeling the pinch of this time of the year or you're nervous about the year to come, which I know is the case for many of my Community and Family Studies teachers. If you listen along, you are going to come away from today's episode with so many strategies, tips, hints and wellbeing related things that you can action straight away and I know you're going to really enjoy Meg's analogies!

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/44 to take the first steps towards unlocking your business potential!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I will be chatting to you about 5 lessons I have learnt throughout 2022! 

This year has been a bit of a different one for me and I just wanted to share some things I have learnt in my personal life and work life as I moved into my 3rd year of my business!

Join me as I chat about wellbeing, surrounding yourself with the right people, gratitude, making your dream happen, positivity and more!

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/44.

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, we're talking about how you can have the freedom and flexibility, both in the life that you create for yourself and inside your own business!

No matter where you're at in life, what your life looks like or where it's going, you have to create that magic by working out what's going to work for you, your family, your happiness and your wellbeing!

Throughout the episode I share my journey into entrepreneurship as an educator. I chat about how I started and the challenges that I face, but also the freedom and flexibility that I now have inside my business.

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/43 to take the first steps towards unlocking your business potential!

Ready to dive right in to your business? Visit thelearnnet.com/membership to learn more about my Educator to Entrepreneur Membership and how I can use my expertise to help guide and support you!

In today's podcast episode, I chat to you about a few little things I did when I first started my Educator to Entrepreneur journey.

I will chat about how I started, how I dove straight in head first and what I did to make the most of what I had to offer and the skills in my back pocket!

After leaving the classroom, I went from three weeks of sitting on the lounge feeling very down to saying "You know what, I'm not going to be impacted by this, this is going to add fuel to my fire to actually make a bigger impact on education." And now, 2.5 years later, I have made a successful business out of doing just that.

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/42 to take the first steps towards unlocking your business potential!

Ready to dive right in to your business? Visit thelearnnet.com/membership to learn more about my Educator to Entrepreneur Membership and how I can use my expertise to help guide and support you!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I'm sharing a little bit about my educator to entrepreneur journey!

Although lifting the lid off my business is something I'm a bit nervous about, I can't wait to show you the potential inside my business as well as what I've been able to do to support my community of beautiful CAFS teachers!

This episode will dive into my journey from leaving the classroom to jumping head first into creating a business of my own by unlocking the full potential of the skills I had sitting in my back pocket.

I will also be helping you think about what YOU have in your back pocket! What is your area of expertise that can be used to deliver massive value to your community? Where are the gaps in the market?

So listen along and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/41 to take the first steps towards unlocking your business potential!

Ready to dive right in to your business? Visit thelearnnet.com/membership to learn more about my Educator to Entrepreneur Membership and how I can use my expertise to help guide and support you!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I am chatting to you about focusing on what really matters and this time of year!

As we head into the busy end of Term 4 it's important for us to focus on the things that really matter, both as an educator, as a parent, but also as a person. Many of us may be feeling the pinch of this time of year so taking steps to minimise stress, anxiety and burnout will enable you to enjoy the holiday season!

So, I hope today's episode brings you some sort of clarity on what you should be focusing on right now, ticking off what you need to do without adding a thousand things to your list!

Visit thelearnnet.com/40 to grab the show notes!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I am joined by Kell Quarell to talk about creating energy and flow into the end of the year.

This conversation is all about what you can do to move into the busy end of the year with a strong mindset and positive energy!

Kell is a rule follower gone rogue, a lifelong learner, adventurer and spiritual enthusiast with a passion for all things mindset. With over 16 years experience of being her own boss and running multiple companies, Kell has learned what it takes to be successful, not just in business but in life.  Kell has worked with women for the last 25 years as a creator and facilitator women's empowerment retreats and workshops and knows firsthand the importance of creating and maintaining positive practices to ensure a strong mindset.

You can find Kell at @kellquarrell on Instagram or at www.kellquarrell.com.au

So listen along as we discuss how you can bring the enthusiasm and magic back into this time of the year!

Listen and grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/39!

This episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast is going to be all about why we never stopped learning as CAFS teachers.

Even after 18 years of CAFS experience, co-authoring 2 textbooks, marking exams and presenting professional learning for the best part of 12 years, there's always something new to learn, always room to grow.

In this episode I'm joined by two of my beautiful CAFS Collective members, Kate Hampstead and Courtney Pershouse, who I interviewed throughout the year.

Both of these amazing teachers has taken a number of different courses inside the Learning Network but are here to chat today about why they continue to back themselves, why they continue to do professional learning, and why it is so important to be surrounded by like minded teachers.

As Courtney and Kate talk about their experience in The CAFS Collective, they reveal the power of having people around you get it, who are there for support and are so generous with sharing resources and ideas. 

If you're ready to join The CAFS Collective, check it out at thelearnnet.com/collective!

You can find this episode's show notes at thelearnnet.com/38.

In this week's jam packed episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast we're going to unpack some of the common mistakes that still being made in CAFS, in particular the Research Methodology module.

These common mistakes are part of the reason our kids really struggle in the Research Methodology section of the HSC and why I continue to see the same misunderstandings and incorrect answers year after year after year. 

If you're interested in continuing to learn and grow to help your student succeed, check out The CAFS Collective Membership at thelearnnet.com/collective.

Check out this episode's show notes at thelearnnet.com/37.

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I unpack how you can get out of your CAFS bubble & go big with your CAFS crew with the support of like-minded CAFS teachers!

This episode was inspired by the 2022 CAFS conference, which I can only describe as magic! The power of connection was so rich there and, although I absolutely love being able to work from home, I absolutely love connecting with people face to face. Nothing beats it.

One of the biggest things that I got out of the CAFS conference, which is one of the many strategies I discuss in this episode, is the importance of surrounding yourself by like minded teachers! 

If you are listening to this live, the CAFS collective doors are wide open for 2023 memberships! This is the perfect opportunity to connect & strategise with me & fellow CAFS teachers across the state in a supportive environment tailor-made for & by you!!

Visit thelearnnet.com/collective to learn more!

In this week's episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I am joined by courage creator & resilience revolutionary, the appropriately named, Nadine Champion! Nadine is an international speaker, mindset coach, champion kickboxer & martial artist whose mission is to help women get back up, leave life’s dressing room and courageously create a life they love.

In this episode, Nadine is going to unpack a few things around courage and resilience and how we can be the best versions of ourselves. Nadine explains how she uses mindset training to overcome that wild voice in our heads that doesn't always say the nicest things by using our emotions, feelings and thoughts as fuel for positivity rather than letting them get in our way.

Grab the show notes at thelearnnet.com/35!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast, I unpack the power of community!

I have connected with so many amazing educators over the last 18 and a half years, both while I taught CAFS & since I began supporting CAFS teachers. I've been around for a while and many of the teachers I have met, learnt from, supported or developed friendships with have made a bigger impact on me than they will ever realise! This episode is dedicated to them!

This episode will empower you and remind you about the importance of connection, the importance of us working together rather than in silo and the importance of us connecting, learning and growing together.

If you are listening to this live, the CAFS conference is coming up on the 14th and 15th October, 2022, and will be held in the most amazing magical place, Killcare on the Central Coast. I am so excited to be able to host this conference in person, connecting CAFS teachers from across NSW and enabling that sense of community and connection that has been missed over the last couple of years! This conference is designed to help you build confidence and really understand the content you’re teaching with strategic sessions and guest speakers! 

Visit thelearnnet.com/conference to learn more about the 2022 CAFS Conference!

Grab the episode show notes at thelearnnet.com/34!

In this week's episode, I am joined by a very special guest, Sharna Dawson. Sharna has a very extensive 20-year career in education, working as a PDHPE teacher for 8 years before retraining. Sharna found her passion in working with students to discover their careers, so she completed a graduate certificate in career development.

Today, Sharna will unpack what you can do to get the right kids into the CAFS course and keep them there. She's also going to dive into some common myths around CAFS and what you can do to capture the students you want and build that sense of community & passion in your course!

We also chat about the IRP, a very small part of our CAFS course which often adds a lot of unnecessary stress & creates so much extra marking. It doesn't have to be like that & I can show you how in my Strategic Approaches to the IRP course, which has helped over 250 CAFS teachers across NSW facilitate the IRP successfully without sacrificing their time and wellbeing in the process.

Visit thelearnnet.com/33 to grab the episode show notes and visit thelearnnet.com/irp to learn more about the Strategic Approaches to the IRP course!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast I dive into the reasons why students shouldn't be writing notes!!

Re-writing notes on the course content is a waste of valuable revision time & energy. Revision is a time to apply knowledge & skills by completing past exam questions & other strategic revision activities!

Listen along as I share with you some strategies that you can use to help your students succeed in both Community and Family Studies and PDHPE!

In the episode, I also chat about my Year 12 MasterClass Sessions, which allow me to work with you & your kids in a session tailored to their specific needs. These sessions enable me to give your kids direct feedback, personalised strategies & a fresh perspective from a CAFS coach who has had years of experience teaching & marking the course. You will also get access to a booklet for the students to use throughout the session & beyond, with templates, scaffolds, brand new HSC style questions, tips & tricks & more!

Visit thelearnnet.com/masterclass to check out my MasterClasses!

Visit thelearnnet.com/32 for the episode show notes!

In this episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast I am joined by Jess George-Loulach to chat about some of the misconceptions surrounding CAFS, especially the idea that it is a subject just for girls!

Community and Family Studies has so many real world lessons embedded within the course & can set students up for personal & professional success, no matter their gender.

Listen along & grab the shownotes at thelearnnet.com/31

In this week's episode of The Learning Network's Community & Family Studies Podcast I share some resources to help you share your love of CAFS!

I have updated the free "Tools to Promote CAFS" resource on The Learning Network homepage so you have all you need to let the students at your school know just how great CAFS is! 

With information on the course modules, content, learning opportunities & career options, this is the perfect resource to give students as they decide on their subject choices for stage 6! Hang the pages up as posters or use it as a hand out & share your love of CAFS! 

Check out the show notes & download the free "Tools to Promote CAFS" resource at thelearnnet.com/30!