Scott Dirix

Scott Dirix

Head of School at Indie School Elizabeth, South Australia

Scott Dirix is the multi-award winning Head of School at Indie School Elizabeth, an innovative alternative learning program in Adelaide’s northern suburbs catering for disengaged and at-risk young people. Scott leads an innovative multidisciplinary team to enact an educational vision underpinned by principles of collaboration, wellbeing, staff and student agency, curriculum innovation, inclusion, and community partnerships.

Scott has won awards at both state and national level, winning both the Commonwealth Bank Teaching Award and the Excellence Award: Department Head of the Year in the Australian Education Awards 2020. He was the winner of the 2017 Department of Education Innovation in Practice Award in South Australia, and the Adolescent Success Middle Years Leader of the Year in 2019. Scott was an ACEL New Voice Scholarship recipient in 2019.

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Q&A: Developing an evidence-based staff wellbeing program
Q&A: Developing an evidence-based staff wellbeing program
Mar 01,2021

What would happen if you listened to your staff and students about what their reality is like, and then wrote a school-wide wellbeing framework and curriculum that responded specifically to their needs? At Indie School Elizabeth in South Australia, a targeted approach to addressing the complex wellbeing needs of students led to a brave reimagining of staff wellbeing strategies and processes.
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