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 CHISHOLM
CATHOLIC COLLEGE
Chisholm Catholic College is a co-educational secondary
college, located in Logan City, which is located 30 minutes
south of Brisbane and 30 minutes north of the Gold Coast. It
has an enrolment of 600 students and is operating in its
16th year.
The Responsible Thinking Process was first introduced at
Chisholm Catholic College in Semester 2, 2002. The
Responsible Thinking Classroom opened with Mrs Sue Martin,
the RTC Teacher Aide and a variety of Pastoral Coordinators
to work with the students. Subsequently, the RTC has been
staffed with one predominant teacher and one or two others
to help out during periods of teacher release. The current
RTC teachers are Ms Miranda Pugsley and Mr Markus Ebeling.
Mrs Catherine Thompson is the RTP Administrator and has been
since its inception.
A Core Team of staff meet every three weeks and this group
consists of the RTP Administrator, the RTC teachers, RTC
teacher aide, two pastoral coordinators and the college
counsellor. The College Counsellor, Mrs Michelle Rowbotham,
is our intervention specialist who takes responsibility for
tracking students who require extra support.
Contact can be made with Mr Markus Ebeling: mebeling@bne.catholic.edu.au
or Ms Miranda Pugsley: mpugsley@bne.catholic.edu.au for
information about our RTC or to arrange a visit.
EMMAUS COLLEGE
Emmaus College is a co-educational Catholic college located
in North Rockhampton that has been using RTP for four and a
half years. Emmaus College believes there are three
important facets to educating a child. There is an academic
or curriculum focus, there is a pastoral focus and there is
a spiritual focus. All of which are equally important to the
individual.
We see RTP as a vital tool in helping promote respect among
our students and staff.
We see RTP as a vital tool in helping promote internally
motivated behaviour within our students and staff. We have
found it has enabled classroom disruptions to be dealt with
quickly and quietly while maintaining the dignity of the
individual and the integrity of the learning environment. It
enables students and teachers time to reflect on their
actions and look within themselves to decide if what they
are doing is getting them what they want. Over the 4 years
our data suggests about 65% of the school population never
use the planning room and a further 25% will use it between
1 and 10 times before they work out how to work within the
parameters of the school. A further 5% seem to take between
10 and 30 times and the remaining 5% tend to require more
intensive work such as interventions, counseling sessions
and sometimes home referrals.
The school has a population of approximately 1200 students
split between a senior campus and a junior campus. Although
we are a two campus school, because of the close proximity
of the two campuses we run only one Planning Room (PR) which
is based on the junior campus. We do not call the room the
RTC. The Planning room is run by an RTP coordinator and a PR
administration assistant. The Planning Room is also
supervised by the administration team and year level
coordinators when the RTP coordinator is unavailable. This
was a deliberate decision made to ensure the process did not
become reliant on one or two staff to ensure its longevity.
The Deputy Principal of the senior campus is the RTP
administrator and together with the RTP coordinator they
ensure the process is running as close to the ideals of Ed
Ford and George Venetis as possible and ongoing staff
training and induction is completed in a timely manner. The
RTP coordinator chairs a core team that meets weekly and is
made up of the deputy principals, school counselors and the
PR teachers. This meeting is used to discuss ongoing issues
and concerns that may arise throughout the term. Once a
month an extended core team meets, which includes teaching
representatives and non teaching representatives, to discuss
the future plans and goals of RTP in the school.
Please contact Andrew Nielsen:
Andrew_Nielsen@emmaus.qld.edu.au
MERCY COLLEGE, MACKAY
We are currently in the "preparation stage" for RTP. The
staff has had in-services both with, Ed Ford and George
Venetis, and with those on staff who have done the intensive
training namely Jim Ford and John Evans.
We are currently preparing the documentation to support the
Process. Fortunately, Jim has been able to acquire copies of
the "Whole Kit and Caboodle" from his previous school. We
now have to "Mercify" them all. We have 15 people on staff
who have volunteered to be part of the working committee.
These have all started on the process of changing these
documents.
Our plan is to introduce RTP from the start of next year. At
this stage, it is intended that we use a classroom closest
to the House Coordinators office as the RTC. An RTC teacher
position will be filled. This person will be in the RTC for
3 lines and the House Coordinators and Deputy Principal will
fill in the other 4 lines. There will be a full time teacher
aide.
All staff seem to be keen about the introduction of the
process.
Please contact Jim Ford: fordji@mercymackay.qld.edu.au or
John Evans: evansjo@ mercymackay.qld,edu.au
NORTH ROCKHAMPTON STATE HIGH SCHOOL
Berserker Street, Rockhampton
RTP Administrator: Cynthia O'Sullivan
RTP Co-ordinator: Leanne Adams
North Rockhampton High have been implementing RTP for 1 ½
years now. The results have been very successful and the
vast majority of students and staff are pleased with the
process. For information or visits please contact Leanne
Adams (ladam35@eq.edu.au
or 07 4924 7857).
REDLANDS COLLEGE
Redlands College is an independent, co-educational, Prep-12,
Christian college located on an 8 ha site in Wellington
Point and caters for a student population of approximately
1,110 students.
Redlands College welcomes families who seek support in
raising their children by providing a high standard of
education within a Christian environment. All teaching staff
are practising Christians who support the College mission
and ethos and contribute to a caring "family" atmosphere.
The staff at Redlands College recognise the importance of
educating the whole child. Our school badge represents the
development of spiritual, academic, physical and social
attributes and values centred in Christ.
The College motto 'Christ-Centred Excellence' emphasises
Redlands goal to achieve excellence in all areas through a
Christ-centred focus in which the dedicated staff play a
major role. The College prides itself in providing a broad
spectrum of offerings to its students whether it be in the
traditional Academic Overall Position (OP) or Vocational
Education and Training path.
In 2002 Responsible Thinking Process was introduced as the
College's discipline programme. Initially Years 4 - 12 were
involved, then in 2007 the programme was expanded to include
Prep - Year 3. Due to the growth of the programme a second
RTC was introduced this year.
Both RTC rooms are operated by teachers who have completed
the five-day intensive in service with Ed Ford and George
Venetis.
The RTC teachers are Lynda Barnes (responsible for Years 10
- 12) and Steven Lowther (responsible for Years Prep - Year
8).
Phone - (07) 3286 0501
Fax - (07) 3207 3799
Website - www.redlands.qld.edu.au
Email -
mail@redlands.qld.edu.au
SCHOOL INFORMATION
 Walkervale
State School was officially opened in 1955 and services the
suburbs of Walkervale, Avenell Heights and Kepnock. These
catchment areas constitute 59% of total school enrolments.
ENROLMENTS
The 2007 School Year commenced with 22 Primary Class Groups,
548 primary students enrolled and 2 Prep Class Groups
totalling 52 students.
THE RESPONSIBLE THINKING PROCESS
Walkervale has been involved in the RTP since 1998. Mark
Craswell, Deputy Principal, is the RTP administrator and
Donna Watton (teacher) is the RTC teacher.
The RTC is staffed from 8am to 3.30pm. To achieve this,
teachers at Walkervale agreed to use
 their
Curriculum Coordination Time funding and to take care of
curriculum co-ordination out of school hours. Using this
time, the school has employed a teacher (Donna Watton) to
staff the room four days a week and the Deputy Principal
(Mark Craswell) works in the RTC in the remaining time.
Walkervale is moving towards accreditation. To aid in the
achievement of this, we have an RTP committee (teachers
representing each year level), which meets to resolve raised
intra-school issues and work through the accreditation
booklet.
Please contact Mark Craswell: mcras2@eq.edu.au or Donna
Watton: dwatt31@eq.edu.au
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