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Craig Akehurst
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Nov 9, 2026
Public Education Awards 2026 – Excellence in Leadership
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2:33Craig AkehurstGUEST
We were really aware at Port Lincoln High School that creating change and cultural shift in a large school can be problematic.
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2:44Craig AkehurstGUEST
a range of learning areas, particularly in a secondary school, to accommodate those different schools of thinking.
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2:51Craig AkehurstGUEST
And certainly in the case of Port Lincoln High School, varying levels of experience.
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2:57Craig AkehurstGUEST
I had the opportunity in 2024 to hear Martin talk at a SASPA conference And he spoke about this idea that if we increased a student's sense of belonging, it would actually create an upward spiral that dragged in other indicators with it.
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3:14Craig AkehurstGUEST
And that notion around increasing belonging was something that I felt would be a good fit for Paul Lincoln High School.

Dale AtkinsonHOST
And have you seen that through line between focusing on belonging for young people and what it's meant for their learning outcomes? Has that been really apparent very early or did it take a bit of a lag time before that started to show?