Imagine The Possibilities

Students thrive when they and their teachers

imagine the limitless possibilities for their learning.

At Warringa Park School in Melbourne’s western suburbs, involvement in a

filmmaking program provided an opportunity to deepen learning, unleash student “...the students exceeded
potential and foster student agency. everyone’s expectations!
Their commitment to the
Teachers recognised an opportunity for the Adobe Youth Voices program to project was unwavering and
support the school’s focus on enhancing student voice and agency and developing the stories they told were
collaboration and creative thinking skills. Seeing the rich opportunities for student inspirational.” Teacher
engagement, teachers agreed to modify their scheduled units of work to focus on
Adobe Youth Voices.

Teachers attended capacity-building workshops hosted by Adobe to learn about “This was a career changing
the art of filmmaking. They returned to the school and worked closely with a experience for the teachers
school mentor to develop visuals, video planners and graphic organisers that and transformational for how
would provide teaching and learning tools and resources and assist in scaffolding the students began to view
the learning. themselves as learners and
creators.” Teacher
Through the project, students were explicitly taught collaboration skills, as well
as filmmaking skills. They were encouraged to create a film around a topic of
personal interest, such as resilience, bullying and being a friend. Students drove
“We got to choose who we
the learning and collaborated in teams to produce their film.
worked with, dress up, act,
sing, and dance. We also held
This approach to teaching and learning was not without its challenges. Careful
a Red Carpet party at school
planning needed to occur to support everyone through the transition. Teachers
to play our films.” Student
and students worked on collaborating and supporting one another to try new ways
of doing, and adjusted the content or activity to suit differentiated learning needs.

The project that surfaced as a novel idea soon influenced planning in other areas
of the curriculum; impacting on a larger scale across the school. The Adobe Youth
Voices program was the catalyst to change the way to plan and work.