The Centre for Professional Learning Podcast
The CPL Podcasts are professional learning conversations around practical and important aspects of teaching and public education. New episodes are easily accessible to members through our website and podcast streaming services.
Episodes
Aug 19, 2026
Aug 19, 2026
34 min
In this podcast episode, CPL’s Margaret Vos interviews Judy King as they delve into women in history and will learn why it is so important to restore women to their rightful place in the world’s history.She discusses the importance of this restoration, ensuring that the achievements of women are included in the History curriculum cannot be left to a happy accident. It requires systematic planning and programming. It does not require extensive lists of content, but it does require some fresh approaches to programming and the framing of challenging enquiry questions which will engage students K-12.
Judy King OAM MA Dip Ed
Judy King is a former high school principal and a Life Member of the NSW Teachers Federation, the Australian Education Union and Secondary Principals’ Council. She retired from Riverside Girls High School in 2010 after 19 years as a secondary principal.
Since retirement, Judy has worked part-time at Chifley College Mt Druitt campus, Northmead High and Georges River College in an executive support role with a strong focus on teaching and learning, assessment and reporting, especially in the areas of reading for meaning and writing for purpose.
She currently teaches History and Politics at WEA, the oldest adult education foundation in the CBD of Sydney.
Mar 10, 2023
Mar 10, 2023
56 sec
In this wide-ranging interview, Kate Ambrose, Director of the Centre for Professional Learning and Maurie Mulheron, past NSW Teachers Federation President, go deep into the history of Local Schools, Local Decisions. This policy has defined the past decade of the NSW public school system, devolving the structure of the state-wide system with detrimental effects on every school and classroom in the state. Kate and Maurie discuss the policy decisions that led to the implementation of Local Schools, Local Decisions and the ongoing ramifications on the public school system in NSW.
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
46 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. How can teachers maximize the effectiveness of the time allocated in each day’s timetable for English? TRIO discusses some options in this podcast.
Mary-Ellen Betts and Jenny Williams
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
56 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Five key points from this podcast will support teacher reflection on teaching practices that improve student writing.
Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
41 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. TRIO love poetry and this podcast offers all teachers some encouragement to include poetry in their teaching of English.
Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
42 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. The five components of working mathematically are at the heart of the NSW maths syllabus. This discussion addresses what that means for classroom teachers.
Sandra Rowan and Jenny Williams
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
47 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Every teacher wants a calm and well managed classroom. This podcast explores five principles that underpin effective behaviour management.
Sandra Rowan and Jenny Williams
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
44 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. There are much better ways to address the teaching of spelling than a weekly list. This podcast explores the effective teaching of spelling.
Mary-Ellen Betts and Sandra Rowan
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
40 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. Let’s get practical with spelling and sort out errors as the pen hits the page! Spelling conferences may be a real ah-ha moment for you and your class.
Mary-Ellen Betts and Jenny Williams
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
48 min
Take 5 podcasts aim to provide listeners with five points to consider for their classroom practice. TRIO thinks you will agree that guided reading is a good idea but sometimes the management, timing and grouping of students can seem difficult. This is a discussion around these ideas.
Jenny Williams and Mary-Ellen Betts
The NSW Teachers Federation’s (Federation) Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) provides high quality, research-based professional learning and support for Federation members in a range of pedagogical and school based curriculum areas.
The courses and conferences provide practical, tested and well researched approaches to issues that teachers face every day at the school level. The CPL aims to offer programs that are useful across the spectrum of a teacher’s career from the early years of teaching to the experienced and leadership levels. Courses and conferences are conducted in-person, as well as online. The CPL adds an important extra dimension to the union’s standing both with its members and in the public domain. It makes a positive contribution to the Federation’s ongoing efforts to raise the status of the teaching profession and promote the public education system in the wider NSW community.