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HASS Week 2018 in Review

How amazing are HASS students and teachers? The Steering Committee for HASS Week 2019 will continue to
be HASS representatives from the Education sectors:
Thank you to everyone for a most inspiring,
Association of Independent Schools WA (AISWA), Catholic
Inaugural #HASSweek and to everyone who supported the
Education WA (CEWA), the Department of Education (D0E)
idea of HASS Week by attending events and/or creating your
and the University of WA (UWA), in partnership with the
own HASS Week events for your school community. We had
Education Staff from the State Library of WA (SLWA) and
more than 500 registrations for the metro-based PL events,
Seven West Media Education. Teachers Mutual Bank have
so it looks like we're doing it all again next year. There were
once again agreed to sponsor our major Professional Learning
several school-based events at various schools and we are
event in 2019.
hoping the ideas shared this year will inspire more primary
schools and HASS Departments to create a real buzz around We are also hoping to expand our current, small group of
their schools and local communities for HASS Week 2019, school-based teachers (Primary and Secondary) from each
similar to our colleagues celebrating Book Week and Science sector, who wish to be involved in a HASS Week Teachers
Week each year. group, especially in regional areas to assist with our state-
wide planning and promotion. The Facebook group seems to
Our two red hot hashtags during #HASSweek has shown us
be the most widely used form of communication, so please
the power of social media and cross-sector PL events to
join the group and conversations.
connect and collaborate - WA Humanities educators are
certainly global trendsetters and shown the Thank you and let’s keep the Science of being Social
world #whyHASSmatters. The HASS Week WA Facebook (Humanities) in the hearts and minds of all.
group was a particular favourite sharing place for many HASS
Educators, with nearly 400 members sharing ideas and
resources. The HASS Week website had over 6500 views,
2100 visitors from 21 countries and the @HASSweek Twitter
account has nearly 200 followers.
We heard your feedback about launching the week with the
Conference-style PL, then focusing on school-based events
during the week. So to assist with our planning for HASS
Week 2019 (Term 3 Week 3) please head to the HASS Week
WA Facebook group and add your feedback to our poll
question:

When would you most likely attend a full day/s of HASS
Professional Learning?

 (2 DAYS) Fri 2 Aug (Teacher PL - content & skills)
and Sat 3 Aug (Keynote speakers & excursion
workshops)

 Fri 2 Aug only (Teacher PL)

 Sat 3 Aug only (Teacher PL)

 (2 DAYS) Thurs 1 Aug (student presentations &

excursion workshops) and Fri 2 Aug (Teacher

PL - content & skills)

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