Kylie Kennedy-Cupples

• Teaching Roles: 7- 8 Visual Art, 7 - 8 Ceramics/Sculpture, 7- 10 Textiles, 11 Pastoral Teacher/Home Group, 11 - 12 VCE Unit 1 - 4 Product Design & Technologies (Textiles)
• Collaborations: School staff, principal and school leadership team to implement new curriculum. Experts to implement an indigenous incursion for learning. External organisations for excursions. External experts in the field of Product Design & Technology. Teachers to moderate, develop syllabus, learning materials and resources and improve pedagogies. Engaged with parents and guardians with respect, care and positivity to support students.
• Implementations: The new 2024 VCE PDT study design. Provided equal access to instruction and activities by enforcing fair and equitable classroom policies. Full participation strategies to improve student learning outcomes.
• Managed: The implementation of the Victorian curriculum to students from Year 7 to Year 10 to suit culture, context and demographic. The maintenance of a safe and environment for learning by implementing current research based behavioural management strategies.
• Provided: Explicit teaching of theory and practice to students on Product Design & Technologies, and Art. A safe, inclusive and well-organised classroom structure to ensure positive outcomes for student wellbeing.

• Teaching Roles: 7- 9 Visual Art, 7- 8 Visual Communication and Design, 9 Food Technology, 8 Home Group, 8 Respectful Relationships SEL program
• Collaborated with the school staff, and administrators to implement intellectually challenging visual arts and design programs to foster creativity.
• Implemented the Victorian curriculum to students from Year 7 to Year 9.
• Managed: the adapted curriculum to suit culture, context and demographic. Developed and planned lessons designed to promote skills in all students, best practices for arts integration, visual arts history, theory, and applied new techniques to lesson plan material.
• Maintained a safe environment for learning by implementing current research based behavioural management strategies including SWPBS (School wide positive behaviour strategies).
• Provided a well-organised classroom structure to help students succeed in the program.

• Teaching Roles: Foundation to 6 Visual Art, Pastoral homegroup, Various general teaching
• Collaborated with: the school principal and team to implement SWPBL. The student art leadership team to implement a student art club. School staff, principal and school leadership team performing arts shows, exhibitions and community projects. Staff from Department of Education. External professional providers including David Tournier, elder from the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative, Geelong. Professionals in the art field, including, designers, painters, ceramicists and sculptors to create community artworks.
• Implemented: equal access to instruction and activities with fair and equitable classroom policies with differentiated lessons, enabling students to explore learning from their preferred strengths and learning styles.
• Managed: The implementation of the Victorian curriculum to students from foundation to year six, the development and adapted curricula over an eight year period to suit culture, context and demographic. Maintained a safe environment for learning by implementing current research based behavioural management strategies.
• Provided: theoretical and practical visual arts programs related to historical and contemporary art styles

• Collaborated with the school principal and school leadership team, Catholic Education Western Region Student Wellbeing Network, staff from Department of Education.
• Implemented social and emotional learning programs for students, wellbeing initiatives, the DET Respectful Relationships as a social and emotional learning curriculum framework.
• Managed the Respectful Relationships student forum.
• Provided wellbeing related professional learning for teachers and staff, examples: Berry Street strategies for students and Respectful Relationships model for social and emotional learning.

• Designed and managed a 10th anniversary public sculpture project ‘Living Icon of Gods Creative Love’ and collaborated with artists and professionals (steel and ceramic)
• Jackson Pollock painting project with parent community
• South Sudanese and Australian women cultural sewing project
• Bishop Edwards Chasuble project, design, collaboration and construction

St Josephs and Our Lady of The Southern Cross – primary schools. Parent helper program. Visual art workshops for teachers and students. Parents and friends committee member and grants coordinator. Prop building for performing arts shows. Local junior AFL club grants coordinator. Managed ‘The Race for Alex’ fundraising charity event. Quilt project for Manorlakes pre-school.

• Provided professionally delivered learning material to students from prep to year twelve.

Worked with physically, culturally and linguistically diverse people of all ages in a variety of health care settings including acute hospitals, nursing homes and mental health facilities.