Aware that he heads up “one of the golden nuggets of education”, Bialik College principal Jeremy Stowe-Lindner must thank the career gods that his charge to become a RAF pilot fell through.
But that doesn’t mean he still can’t reach for the stars.Reflecting on what it’s like to pilot Victoria’s highest achieving school (Bialik has been in the top five VCE performers in the state for 19 of the last 20 years, pipping a host of select-entry counterparts to claim first place), Stowe-Lindner speaks about his workplace much like an adoring parent might wax lyrical about their child.
“When you walk around the college, you experience something quite unique,” he begins.
“When you walk around the college, you experience something quite unique,” he begins.
“There is a level of informality and strength of relationships that is difficult to find elsewhere and difficult to bottle, and you realise that there’s a little bit of magic.
“And I think that, coupled with a very strong pedagogy, the relationship with [Harvard University] that developed the Culture of Thinking in the college and the Reggio Emilia-inspired early learning and early primary, create something for a community school that’s very special – it is a very unique recipe.”
Read the full article by Sarah Duggan at Education HQ Australia.