Christian Schools Australia

About Christian Schools Australia

Our vision for this podcast series was a channel where we might share an engaging set of conversations with practitioners and thought-leaders, internationally, to broaden peoples’ understanding of the diverse elements which underpin Christian schooling: culture, community, formation, pedagogy, leadership and research. That listeners would start to see the blueprint lines for effective Christian schooling. That each podcast would challenge Christian educators and leaders to take the next step in forming a concrete conceptualisation of what a flourishing Christian School community is.

Publisher

Admin

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 May 2020

Latest episode

21 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 64 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Sept 2026

   S7 - Ep.3: Wisdom Conversations with David Yates and Michelle Gouge

   In this third episode, CSA Queensland Executive Officer David Yates continues the conversation with Michelle Gouge, Principal of Riverside Christian College they began in Episode 1 & 2. Wisdom Conversations creates space for Principals and senior leaders to learn from the practical wisdom of experienced Christian school leaders. Rather than offering a formula to copy, Wisdom Conversations explores the stories, decisions, tensions and lessons that can help principals and senior leaders reflect more deeply on their own leadership and school context.

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   26 Aug 2026

   S7 - Ep.2: Wisdom Conversations with David Yates and Michelle Gouge

   In this episode, CSA Queensland Executive Officer David Yates continues the conversation with Michelle Gouge, Principal of Riverside Christian College they began in Episode 1. Wisdom Conversations creates space for Principals and senior leaders to learn from the practical wisdom of experienced Christian school leaders. Rather than offering a formula to copy, Wisdom Conversations explores the stories, decisions, tensions and lessons that can help principals and senior leaders reflect more deeply on their own leadership and school context.

3. 

   13 Aug 2026

   S7 - Ep.1: Wisdom Conversations with David Yates and Michelle Gouge

   Wisdom Conversations creates space for Principals and senior leaders to learn from the practical wisdom of experienced Christian school leaders. In this first conversation, CSA Queensland Executive Officer David Yates speaks with Michelle Gouge, Principal of Riverside Christian College, about inheriting a school of around 800 students that was still operating with many of the structures, systems and ways of working of a much smaller school. Michelle reflects on the journey of transitioning Riverside towards a more mature organisational model, including clearer leadership and accountability, stronger systems, greater delegation and more strategic decision-making, while seeking to preserve relationships, culture and Christian mission. Rather than offering a formula to copy, Wisdom Conversations explores the stories, decisions, tensions and lessons that can help principals and senior leaders reflect more deeply on their own leadership and school context.

Inside a recent episode

S1 Episode Twenty-Four: Summer Series 20-21 | Throwback episode - Measuring What We Value

Published 11 Jan 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So if you say that in a Christian school context, the spiritual formation of the student matters, then the Cardiff Survey will tell you something about how school is impacting the religious and spiritual choices that graduates make. But I think the other thing that it does as well as challenge is confirm that not all school sectors are the same. They do different things. They build social capital. They make connections. They create community in different ways. And if you're invested in the Christian school sector, what the survey has shown in Canada and in the US and now in Australia is that Christian schools do form a distinctive profile in their graduates and it's important to know that and to be able to talk well about it. […]

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