Prof. Chris Sarra: Stronger, Smarter, Healthier - How high-expectation relationships create healthier communities

Prof. Chris Sarra: Stronger, Smarter, Healthier - How high-expectation relationships create healthier communities

Author: Our Community May 29, 2017 Duration: 45:12
Once you get a notion in your mind, it can be remarkably hard to shift it. Chris Sarra has spent his career fighting the strongly held assumptions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people hold about themselves, and those foisted upon them by others, in a bid to nullify their life, educational and health-limiting effects. His Stronger Smarter Institute puts into practice his belief that higher expectation relationships will create stronger, smarter classrooms – and healthier communities.

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 50

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Duration: 14:59
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Duration: 14:59
Here's a special compilation of highlights from the 2019 Communities in Control conference, recorded by conference convenors Our Community and produced for radio, and reproduced here with permission, by Community Radio N…
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Duration: 15:00
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