The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) together with Teach for Australia invite you to a Blue Sky Session with Melodie Potts-Rosevear, CEO of Teach for Australia. 

Teach For Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to confronting educational disadvantage in Australia, and sharing a vision of an Australia where all children have excellent educational opportunities. Teach For Australia seeks to attract outstanding individuals and transform them into exceptional teachers and inspirational leaders, placing them in disadvantaged schools where their leadership, passion and ability will in turn help transform the lives of their students.

Over time, Teach For Australia is developing a movement of future leaders who will make a lasting impact both inside and outside of the classroom – competent, passionate and socially aware individuals who share a powerful common experience and a single ambitious goal.

Melodie's talk will focus on the social innovations which power Teach for Australia, both as a new way of recruiting and training secondary teachers, and as a leadership program for its participants.The Teach for Australia program is already running in schools in Victoria and the ACT, and as a special guest, we'll have one of their young Associates also speaking on the night about their experiences 'in the field'!

Join us for a discussion about social innovations in teaching and what we can learn from the Teach for Australia experience.

Refreshments will be provided.

Location:

The Amoury Gallery is located behind the South Australian Museum. Please enter via the main Museum entrance on North Terrace. Latecomers arriving after the Museum closes at 5pm will need to enter via one of the laneways on either side of the Museum.

Please note this event is wheelchair accessible.

About Melodie Potts-Rosevear

Prior to her role with Teach For Australia, Melodie was a founding staff member of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership in Queensland. CYI’s mission is to champion reform and innovation in Indigenous and social policy. In her time as Think Tank Co-ordinator, Melodie performed a range of responsibilities including launching an education initiative helping remote indigenous students access top boarding schools for secondary studies

Prior to joining the Cape York Institute, Melodie was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, GA. There she worked on a variety of corporate and social sector projects, including an achievement gap reduction and school reconfiguration project for an urban school district.

Melodie holds a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

About Blue Sky Sessions

The Blue Sky Sessions provide a forum for people to come together in a spirit of collaborative inquiry to discuss some of the pressing challenges of our day and how we might go about tackling them.

The format is informal and interactive. Speakers provide some introductory remarks around a given question before some Q&A, followed by general discussion and networking. This will not be a case of talking heads. We encourage people to participate, to be creative and to think big.

About TACSI

The Australian Centre for Social Innovation exists to identify and support the innovative ideas, methods and people that will contribute to and accelerate positive social change.