The latest news, tips and ideas to help leaders in primary school, secondary school, and teachers who work with student leaders. A bunch of short sharp segments that get straight to the point!
What does it mean to be an inclusive leader in school? In this episode, Nade, Levi, and Andy, creatively discuss this choosing their favourite Disney Pixar Cars characters in a fun ‘Would You Rather’. The team break inclusive leadership down into 3 practical and straight-to-the-point tips to help you lead your school better. Students and teachers, don’t miss this great episode to help you lead your school in a more inclusive and impactful way!
This lighthearted and introspective podcast tackles the issue that so many student leaders have: balancing all of your school commitments as a leader. Jared, Nade, and Andy, start off the podcast with a hilarious game called ‘Split or Steal’, with the team’s favourite snacks up for grabs. Next up, the team hold an insightful discussion about the importance of selfless leadership, and how to effectively set goals. Don’t miss the great personal stories shared by the team about their leadership journey.
Jared, Nade, and Levi host this episode of SLN practically discussing how to develop courage in school leadership. This pod includes the incredible story of three year 6 girls, and their school-based podcast, the ‘Top 5 Most Embarrassing Moments’ game, and insightful discussions about courage in student leadership. This podcast is jam-packed with practical and easy-to-listen to advice to help all student leaders. Timestamps: 01:18 – The Story of an Incredible Student-Led Podcast 04:18 – Top 5 Embarrassing Moments 12:39 – An Important Observation 13:59 – Discussion 19:54 – Three Practical Takeaways to Grow in Courage
With the coming of 2025, many student leaders are experiencing change. Changing schools, graduating into university, moving into high school, or changing subjects and routine. With this comes a concoction of unfamiliar social environments, and a fresh set of challenges. Student leadership can feel a whole lot more difficult during times of change. From personal experience moving cities, schools, and grades from when they were student leaders, Jared and Levi share practical tools on how to confidently integrate into a new environment and welcome those coming in.
In this episode of Student Leadership News, Nade, Andy, and Jared discuss the importance of personal moments of kindness and consideration in daily life for leaders! Kicking it off with a unique and funny game of “Guess the Animal Noises”, Andy and Nade battle it off to notice the small details in each sound. You don’t want to miss the discussions and stories that follow talking all about this powerful topic! Tune in to another great episode of Student Leadership News!
Are you feeling exhausted as a student leader? Losing motivation to keep going? Andy, Jared, and Nade tackle this timely topic in a comedic, insightful, and personal episode of Student Leadership News. After touring the country together providing student leadership conferences, these three have some funny stories to tell. The episode kicks off with a tour tale about Jared’s “camel-style” running. For student leadership news, the team chat about what a particular student did to motivate her school. And finally, the team walk through 3 practical and fundamental steps to implement that sustain motivation. You don’t want to miss this funny and informative episode of Student Leadership News!
Meet Jared and Levi, our fresh team members that are passionate to share their personal leadership stories and discuss what schools are doing everywhere. Listing their top 3 favourite fruits, you'll get to know their abnormal selections and a bit about them personally! You'll then hear about two successful in-school fundraisers from this past month for our Student Leadership News. Levi and Jared test how well they really know each other with a game called: HOT or COLD. Finishing it off, you'll hear their Best Leadership Tips from previous personal leadership experience. This podcast is jam-packed with laughs and insightful stories that all students should hear! Music Credits: Sport Racing Car | DRIVE by Alex-Productions | https://onsound.eu/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
In this episode, Levi and Nadé welcome a new member to the podcasting team! An intense introduction game that had to go into overtime leads us into a huge part of leadership. Being a role model. Discussions relating to personal experience highlights the impact you have as a leader to those around you. This episode will provide you with helpful tips and reminders regarding students looking up to you.
In this episode, our scrabble game makes a come back with Levi and Andy going head to head. The team start discussion rejection but more specifically to do with pitching or presenting a new idea. This can be challenging for a lot of us, especially when we ourselves are already hesitant with the idea. Everyone shares an instance of rejection they faced at school and what was done after in order shed some light on this subject.
Levi, Andy and Nadé team up with a couple of old time favourite podcast hosts to celebrate our 100th episode! After Levi's beautiful serenading, a segment that has been M.I.A. for a while makes a comeback- Tour Tales. An oldie but a goodie, various stories are shared ranging from near death experiences to $50 fruit boxes. guests as well as their BLT (Best Leadership Tip) that they carry with them throughout any leadership role.
During this episode, Levi and Nadé battle it off in a scrabble based game consisting of fast thinking and creativity. After some debating of their questionable answers, the team share a number of different fundraisers that took place at their school. A range of different ideas and categories are explored, leaving you with loads of inspiration for your next school fundraiser!
During this episode, Andy, Levi and Nadé introduce a possible new intro beat for the podcast created by the team themselves! Random acts of kindness encounters are shared and followed by how this flows on at school. Connecting with different year levels can often be frowned upon but the team share their experiences on how it not only benefited themselves but others as well.
To kick off 2023 Andy, Levi and Nadé share a bit about their recent Christmas break and a first encounter with Maggots. The team discuss what they personally found the most difficult about student leadership while reflecting on what was learnt from the experience.
In this episode we start by looking at a few great examples of what student leaders are doing during Mental Health Awareness Month. Then our 'Best Leadership Tip' segment is focused on practical ideas for making games successful if you are hoping to use them during your school assemblies. More success stories and tips at www.studentleadership.news
On this episode of the podcast, Jack welcomes a new member of the team to the podcast - Levi! Jack challenges Levi to a round of Leadership Quality Scrabble to see if he can beat Jack's score, and the two share some of the fantastic ideas they have heard around the country since the last episode of the podcast. If you want to hear you story shared on the podcast or see it on studentleadership.news, submit your story at www.studentleadership.news
On this episode of the podcast, Andy challenges Jack to the final round of 'Leadership Quality Scrabble' for the year as the two head into the final episode before the Christmas break. The boys go into their Top 3 stories from the week, and discuss the fun students have had at their schools while also making an impact in their respective areas! If you want to hear your story shared on the podcast, or to see it on studentleadership.news with other amazing ideas from school, submit your story at www.studentleadership.news
On this episode of the podcast, Jack challenges Nadé to beat his last score on a game of 'Leadership Quality Scrabble' followed by a round of another podcast favourite from a couple weeks ago 'Would you Rather'. The two discuss their Top 3 stories they've heard and seen from schools that range from showing support for students, teachers and creative murals! If you want to hear your story shared on the podcast, or to see it on studentleadershipnews with other amazing ideas, be sure to submit your story at www.studentleadership.news
Nadé challenges Jack to another podcast favourite, 'Leadership Quality Scrabble', and the two discuss some great ideas where schools have impacted their wider community that they've heard right across the country over the last couple of weeks. If you want your story to be shared on the podcast, or to hear some other great ideas across the country, head to www.studentleadership.news
Nadé brings back an old podcast favourite 'Guess That Leader' which brings out Jack's competitive side. The two share unique stories where student leaders tackle serious issues and give back to their local community. If you want the chance to hear your story on the podcast, head to www.studentleadership.news and submit your story to be shared on the website!
This episode, Nadé challenges Jack in a game of 'Would you Rather'. The two of them discuss and share their Top 3 stories they've heard recently, which include Mullets for Mental Health, how a school showed its appreciation for the community after a cyclone as well as a school celebrating Australia's culture and history in the wider community! If you want to the chance to hear your student leadership story on the podcast, or just hear some other great stories from across the country, head to www.studentleadership.news
Jack challenges Nadé to another game of 'Would you Rather' where they discuss the possibility of talking to animals. The team take a look at the top 3 stories that we've heard recently across the country, from fundraisers to fun interschool sport competitions! If you want your story to be included on Student Leadership News and the podcast, be sure to submit your stories at www.studentleadership.news
Andy introduces Jack and Nadé to the podcast by playing a game of 'Would You Rather' as they channel their inner superhero. We take a look at our top 3 ideas that we've heard recently from student leaders, focusing on R U OK?, Buddy programs and the creativity of a student in grade 2! Don't forget to submit your own stories to be included at www.studentleadership.news
In a quick game of 'Would You Rather' we find out Andy's Olympic dream. We look at our top 3 ideas from the many amazing things student leaders have been doing recently. There is a fair bit of excitement about the 'Trick Shot Challenge' idea! You can always submit your own school success stories to us at www.studentleadership.news
Ronan introduces a new leadership game to the podcast, which backfires when Andy throws it back on him. We also
This is the final episode in the series focusing on fundraising ideas for student leaders. Throughout part 1-9 Andy and
The latest episode sees Andy and Caleb check out some of the final exploits of student leaders as we approach
Throughout the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan have grouped together categories of ideas for each episode. Some fundraising ideas
Andy and Caleb get into the age-old debate on the correct time of year to bring out your favourite carols
In part 8 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan look at one of the most simple ways of
Andy and Caleb celebrate a (kind of) Birthday for the Student Leadership News Podcast in the 80th episode. The best
In part 7 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan focus on successful ways to partner with local businesses
Caleb challenges Andy to a game of Guess the Leader (shoutout to Kiwi listeners for this one!) and the pair
In part 6 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan give a bunch of ideas for fundraising small amounts
Andy and Caleb bring the best of student leadership news stories from the last fortnight as well as an “easy”
In part 5 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan suggest ideas that will suit students who are creative,
Andy jumps ship this week to join Caleb on the news podcast and they review all of the latest and
In part 4 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan suggest heaps of ways that you can raise money
Caleb and Cam dive deep into what students did to support the R U OK? Day around their schools, and
In part 3 of the fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan provide heaps of ways to raise money that involve
Caleb and Cam discuss some of the best leadership stories they have heard over the last two weeks and make
In part 2 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan look at ideas for transforming typical ‘dress-up’ or ‘non-uniform’
Caleb and Cam break their record on the Leadership Quality Scrabble game whilst also bringing their favourite stories from the
In part 1 of the Fundraising Ideas Series Andy and Ronan give heaps of ideas for things that student leaders
Caleb gets stumped on the Leadership Quality Scrabble this week, while Cam shares his Best Leadership Tip at the moment!
Cam and Caleb bring stories of student leaders who have been having amazing impacts in their schools and communities and
In episode 64 of the podcast Cam and Caleb test out a fun new game, discuss the top leadership stories
Decision making is particularly hard as a leader and sometimes it is especially hard to keep others in mind. In
Caleb and Cam discuss their top three ideas for showing school pride whilst some students are at school and others
There are many parts to leadership and this week Caleb and Cam discuss ways that student leaders can make mundane
Caleb and Cam are back to bring ideas about ways that students and teachers can be involved with significant dates
In the final episode of the Public Speaking Series Andy and Ronan discuss strategies for nervous speakers. Nearly every speaker
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