i'm the principal of australia's only

high school with a registered nightclub

and i don't believe for one minute that

any of my teachers when i was at school

thought i'd be the principal of any

school

in fact judging by the report card

comments they thought i'd end up in a

different industry altogether

but here i am the principal of

australia's only high school with a

registered nightclub

a nightclub that our students operate

they do everything

including booking aria award-winning

artists and international touring acts

that's real world education and i almost

didn't make it through school

in my final year of school my dad

tragically passed away

and i dropped out you could say i ran

away to join the circus

my boss from work experience had offered

me a job in his lab developing prints

and negatives and i took that job

and i really enjoyed it but after eight

months he let me go

and i was at a loose end not knowing

what to do my eldest brother sat me down

and talked to me about going back to

school and said i should finish my final

year

now i know that not every kid in that

situation has that kind of support and

i'm lucky that i did but i followed his

advice

went back to school and while i was

there met an incredible mentor

my pe teacher not only was he a great

bloke but he had the best job in the

world

played sport all day and had 10 weeks of

holiday every year

how good is that so i was on my pathway

to becoming a teacher

i went to university for three years to

study the theory of how to become a

teacher

and putting that theory into practice

proves a lot more difficult than what i

could imagine

one of my first teaching gigs was an all

boys year 10 pe class

and boy did they make life tough for

this rookie but when i decided to

recruit some of them into my rugby

league team

and built meaningful relationships with

them they slowly came on board and

things became easier

i then continued to hone my skills as a

teacher across the following 16 years

in regional and tough cities and i loved

my time teaching in the classroom

but i started to get jaded and the gloss

had worn off because i'd seen so many

students

either drop out of school or been shown

the door and told to leave

kids like me good kids kids who were

struggling with something was far

greater than what they could grasp

and handle at the same time at school so

they dropped out

or they acted out and got asked to leave

i often hear a lot of people say that

school days are the best days of your

life

well if that's true why do the stats

paint a different story

one in four kids who enter school in

australia fail to graduate year twelve

forty percent of students are disengaged

on any given day in any school across

the nation

it's clear that we have a problem add to

these the mental health statistics for

our youth

where one in seven will experience a

mental health problem

one in ten will self-harm and 113 will

seriously consider

suicide and you can see that we have a

much larger problem

i found it unacceptable that so many

students were disconnecting from school

so i decided to do something about it in

1996 a group of mates and i

started a drop-in centre that quickly

morphed into a full-time youth centre

we developed job programs a live music

venue

a radio station a recording studio and

even our own record label

and these kids kids who couldn't or

wouldn't go to school

we found it difficult to get them to

leave the facility at the end of the day

because they're so engaged in what

they're doing after six years of running

these programs i got to thinking

we should be able to do more for these

kids we could legitimize their learning

and that's where the idea of music

industry college came from

a school that's dedicated to students

who want to pursue a music career

a school where graduation rates are

above 90

where bullying is almost non-existent

and where mental health problems ease

and disappear over time

and mark's improved but that's not

really our focus

and when we started mic we decided to

strip back everything that was

unnecessary

for example we have no uniform no

homework

we allow students to leave campus when

they need to go out for lunch

we even threw away the rule book we just

don't have any but we replace them with

four pillars

trust respect community and

participation

now just so you know that these aren't

just words on a page that we pay lip

service to

i want to give you an example of how

these play out in everyday life

let's start with trust at mic we expect

that every member of our community is

trustworthy it's just simply

non-negotiable

this allows us to give the students full

access to all facilities

all the equipment allows us to let them

leave the campus to go and get lunch

not be at school if they don't have a

class and yeah

you're right some of these kids will do

the wrong thing

and even some of the staff will and

we'll have an issue with trust

what we do then is we seek with that

individual and we work through ways that

we can restore that trust relationship

between them and the school community

because we want every member of our

school community to be a fully

functional member of that community

and trust is a key tenant of that this

philosophy and style applies to each of

the other three pillars

in a similar manner we deliberately kept

the size of the school small

we started with a cohort of 27 students

and we quickly grew to our current cap

of a 90.

this is based on dunbar's number robin

dunbar was a british anthropologist

and through his study he found that the

human brain can really only cope

with around 150 meaningful relationships

so given our 90 students our 10 or so

staff

their friends and family outside of

school they're at that capacity

and in order to have a really good

educational experience the research

tells us it's based on relationships

we also provide flexibility at music

industry college

because no two students are the same and

the music industry can be an

unpredictable beast

a student might be required to go on

tour or play a festival during school

time

one example of that is olivia mccarthy

also known as joy

when she was in her final term of year

12 getting her exams and her assessments

done so she graduated high school

she was called away to sydney to record

a cover of kylie minogue's can't get you

out of my head

for our national broadcaster's leica

version

the song was so successful when it was

released that kylie minogue herself

tweeted olivia while she was in a maths

class and as you can imagine her music

career gained momentum

overnight so there's this tension

between the industry requirements

and requirements to complete school and

her parents were very stressed about

this issue

so we sat down with her parents and

olivia and we discussed a way that we

could manage it so that she could still

do her school

and travel to and from sydney to pursue

a music career

well she graduated high school was

offered a position at a university in a

paramedic course

but she also went on to have a

successful music career

she's toured europe with demi lovato and

reduced a number of

chart-topping singles we progressively

released responsibility to our students

as well across their two years of year

11 and year 12.

one good example of that is when our

students run our annual festival

students allocated roles that they have

to fulfill prior to

and during the festival caleb one of our

year 12 students

was given the role of head of security

he had a budget

he had to book security and he had to

provide them with a roster

and on the day he had to take them

through an induction process

well about halfway through the event

caleb was wandering through the venue

just checking to see everything was

going well and he found two heavily

intoxicated patrons

who shouldn't have been in the venue he

took them outside safely

and after he'd done that he went

searching for the security guard whose

job it was to keep them out of the venue

in the first place

when he found the guard he was

fraternising with two young female

members of the public

caleb gave him a piece of his mind set

him straight

put him back on his post and the rest of

the event ran smoothly

since graduation caleb has gained

employment in the construction industry

as a workplace health and safety officer

a job where you have to have difficult

conversations on an almost daily basis

caleb's often told me that the skills he

learnt through that festival

have stood him in good stead with the

work he does from day to day

we focus on skills not scores

and through that process magically the

scores

improve and also it takes the pressure

off students

come exam time and assessment times

there is an appetite for data at the

moment in the education system within

australia

and mic has the data to back it up

through improvement in students grades

but that's not our main focus during

post-graduation

interviews some of our students have

disclosed to us that they were suffering

from severe mental health issues

and even suicidal thoughts prior to

enrolling in mic

one female student unsuccessfully

attempted to take her life three times

during year nine and year ten prior to

coming to nyc

upon graduation she's healthy she's

happy

she's full-time employed as a

photographer and pursuing her music

goals

as she goes along another example is a

young man who was suffering from such

debilitating bouts of anxiety and

depression

that he couldn't go to school at all in

fact he found it even difficult to get

out of bed

when he came to mic what he found was a

supportive and nurturing group of peers

and teachers

he was able to express himself musically

and as an individual

he's now a university graduate he's

worked for our national broadcaster

and now he is manager of one of

queensland's busiest retail

outlets not all of our students will go

on to have a sustainable music industry

career

but some of them will and many more are

pursuing that goal

ari award winner thelma plum recorded a

song called father said while she was at

music industry college

after graduation she uploaded that song

to triple j on earth

a national music competition they chose

her

to be their unearthed representative at

the national indigenous music awards

since then film has gone on to have

multiple chart successes with her debut

album better in black

another example is marco gikas marco

worked intensively with his music

teacher tom egert

over his last year at mic to produce

music

he released his first single running

while he was still at school

and it quickly amassed more than one

million streams on platforms across the

world

he gathered the interest of many people

in the industry and has signed a record

deal

with one of australia's major record

labels thomas also joined the same

company full-time

and although we're sad to see tom go we

believe that the school is there to

improve

the industry capacity of both students

and staff

see education is not just a

one-size-fits-all endeavor

and it's not something where success

should be measured by a cold score

that compares one human child with every

other human child

ignoring their skills their experiences

their knowledge their passions and their

pursuits

the music industry college experience

demonstrates that there is a purpose

and positive impact of allowing students

to pursue the things that they love

and that they're passionate about to

develop their own individual learning

pathway

supported by teachers as guides and

facilitators

and while we've chosen musical as a

vehicle there's no reason this model

can't be applied to dance or drama

computer gaming or coding in fact we're

currently developing

an innovation and entrepreneurial campus

education shouldn't come down to one

single school an education system should

be about providing students

with knowledge and skills that allows

them to lead a meaningful life

filled with passion and purpose and that

is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor

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我是澳大利亚唯一

一所拥有注册夜总会的高中的校长

，我一分钟都不相信

我在学校时的任何老师都

认为我会成为任何学校的校长，

事实上从成绩单来看

评论他们认为我最终会进入一个

完全不同的行业，

但在这里我是

澳大利亚唯一一所拥有注册夜总会的高中的校长 一个

我们的学生经营的夜总会

他们无所不包，

包括预订咏叹调获奖

艺术家和

真实的国际巡回演出 世界教育，

我在学校的最后一年

差点没能完成

学业 冲洗照片

和底片，我接受了那份工作

，我真的很喜欢，但

八个月后他让我走了

，我不知所措，不知道

该怎么办，我的大哥让我坐下来，

然后 跟我谈起要回

学校，说我应该完成我的最后

一年，

现在我知道不是每个处于这种

情况的孩子都有这种支持，

我很幸运，但我听从了他的

建议

回到了学校，而 我在

那里遇到了一位令人难以置信的导师

我的体育老师不仅是个很棒的人

而且他拥有世界上最好的工作

整天从事体育运动并且每年有 10 周的

假期

多好所以我

正在成为 一位老师

我在大学里

学习了三年如何成为一名

教师的

理论，并将该理论付诸实践

证明比我想象的要困难得多

我的第一次教学演出是一个全

男生的 10 年级体育课

和 男孩，他们是否让这个新秀的生活变得艰难，

但是当我决定将

他们中的一些人招募到我的橄榄球

联盟球队

并与他们建立有意义的关系时，

他们慢慢加入进来，

事情变得容易了，

然后我继续磨练我的技能作为

茶 在接下来的 16 年

里，我在偏远地区和艰难的城市

度过了美好

的时光 并被告知要离开

像我这样的孩子 好孩子 那些

在某事上挣扎的孩子远远

超过他们

在学校同时能够掌握和处理的东西 所以

他们辍学

或者他们表现出来并被要求离开

我经常听到很多 人们说

学生时代是你

一生中

最美好的

日子 全国各地的学校

很明显，我们有问题添加到

这些青少年的心理健康统计数据中

，七分之一的人会遇到

心理健康问题

，十分之一的人会自残，113人会

自残 非常考虑

自杀，你可以看到我们有一个

更大的问题

我发现这么多

学生与学校断开连接是不可接受的，

所以我决定在

1996 年做点什么

变成了一个全日制的青年中心

我们开发了工作计划 现场音乐

表演

场所 广播电台 录音室

甚至我们自己的唱片公司

以及这些不能

或不愿上学的孩子

我们发现很难找到他们

在一天结束时离开设施，

因为他们在

运行这些项目六年后非常专注于他们正在做的事情，

我开始认为

我们应该能够为这些孩子做更多事情，

我们可以使他们的

学习合法化 音乐

产业学院的想法来自

一所专门为

想要从事音乐事业

的学生提供服务的学校，一所毕业率高于 90 的学校，

几乎不存在欺凌

，心理健康的学校

随着时间的推移，问题会逐渐缓解和消失

，马克也有所改善，但这

并不是我们真正关注的重点

，当我们开始使用麦克风时，我们决定

去掉所有

不必要

的东西，例如我们没有制服没有

家庭作业

我们允许学生在需要外出时离开校园

午餐

我们甚至扔掉了我们没有的规则书，

但我们用四大支柱代替它们，

现在信任尊重社区和参与，这样你就知道这些

不仅仅是我们口头上的文字

，

我想要 举个例子说明

这些在日常生活中如何发挥作用

让我们从对 mic 的信任开始 我们

希望我们社区的每个成员都是

值得信赖的 这只是

不可协商的

这使我们能够让学生完全

使用所有设施

所有设备 允许我们让他们

离开校园去吃午饭

，如果他们没有课，就不用在学校

了 他的工作人员会，

我们也会遇到信任问题，

然后我们要做的就是与那个人一起寻求

，我们通过各种方式

来恢复

他们与学校社区之间的信任关系，

因为我们希望学校社区的每个成员都

成为该社区的全功能成员

，信任是这一

理念和风格适用

于其他三个支柱

的关键

租户 我们很快就达到了目前的

上限 90。

这是基于邓巴的数字 罗宾·

邓巴是一位英国人类学家

，通过他的研究，他发现

人类的大脑实际上只能

处理大约 150 种有意义的关系，

所以考虑到我们的 90 名学生，我们的 10 或 因此

，在校外为他们的朋友和家人

配备员工，他们具备这种能力，为了获得真正良好的

教育体验，研究

告诉我们，这是基于人际关系 hips

我们还在音乐产业学院提供灵活性，

因为没有两个学生是相同的，

而且音乐产业可能是一个

不可预测的

野兽，学生可能需要

在上学时间去巡回演出或参加音乐节，

其中一个例子是 olivia mccarthy，

也被称为

当她在 12 年级的最后一个学期

完成考试和评估以

完成高中毕业时，

她很高兴她被叫到悉尼为我们的国家广播公司录制

kylie minogue 的封面不能让你忘记

我

徕卡

版

这首歌在发行时非常成功，

以至于凯莉·米洛自己

在上数学课时发了推特奥利维亚

，你可以想象她的音乐

事业在一夜之间获得了动力

，所以

行业

要求和完成学业的要求之间存在这种紧张关系

父母对这个问题压力很大，

所以我们与她的父母和奥利维亚坐下来

讨论了一种我们

可以管理它的方法 在她仍然

可以上学

并往返于悉尼

从事音乐事业时，

她高中毕业后

在大学获得了护理人员课程的职位，

但她也继续拥有

成功的音乐事业

她与黛米一起巡回欧洲 lovato 并

减少了一些

排名靠前的单曲，我们在 11 年级和 12 年级的两年中逐步

释放了对学生的责任

。

一个很好的例子就是当我们的

学生运行我们的年度音乐节时，

学生分配了他们必须扮演的角色

在节日之前和期间完成 caleb 我们的一位

12 年级学生

被任命为安全负责人，

他有预算，

他必须预订安全，他必须

为他们提供一份名册，

并且在他必须带他们通过的那天

大约在活动进行到一半的过程中，

卡莱布在会场里闲逛，

只是检查一切是否

顺利，他发现了两个喝得

酩酊大醉的顾客

谁不应该在场馆他

安全地把他们带到外面

，做完之后他

去找保安，当他找到他的守卫时，他的

工作就是把他们挡在场外

。

与公共领域的两名年轻女性

成员

caleb 建立了友好关系，让他冷静下来，

让他重新回到原来的岗位上，其余

的活动进行得很顺利，

因为毕业后

caleb 在建筑行业

获得了工作场所的健康和安全工作 军官

几乎每天都必须进行艰难对话的工作

迦勒经常告诉我，他

通过那个节日学到的技能使

他在日常工作中处于有利地位

我们专注于技能而不是分数，

并且通过 这个过程神奇地提高了

分数

，也减轻了学生的压力。

考试时间和评估时间

目前在教育系统中对数据有兴趣

澳大利亚

和 MIC 有数据通过提高学生成绩来支持这一点，

但这不是我们在

毕业后

采访中的主要关注点，我们的一些学生

向我们透露，他们在入学前

患有严重的心理健康问题

，甚至有自杀念头

在麦克风中，

一名女学生在毕业后来

到纽约市之前，在九年级和十年级试图结束她的生命 3 次，但未成功

她很健康 她很

高兴

她全职担任

摄影师并追求她的音乐

目标

另一个例子是 一个

患有

焦虑和

抑郁症的年轻人

，他根本无法去上学，

事实上

，

当他来到麦克风时，他发现甚至难以起床。他发现这是一个

支持和培养的团体 在同龄

人和老师中，

他能够在音乐上表达自己

，作为个人，

他现在是一名大学毕业生，

他为我们的国家工作 广播员

，现在他是

昆士兰州最繁忙的

零售店之一的经理 并非我们所有的学生都将

继续拥有可持续的音乐行业

职业，

但他们中的一些人以及更多人正在

追求这个目标

ari 奖获得者 thelma plum 录制了一

首名为父亲的歌曲 她说，当她毕业后在

音乐工业学院时

，她将那首歌上传

到了地球上的三重 j

全国音乐比赛，他们选择

她作为他们在全国土著音乐奖上的出土代表，

从那时起，电影继续

与她一起在排行榜上取得了多项成功 首张

专辑 Better in black

另一个例子是 marco gikas marco

去年在 mic 与他的音乐老师 tom egert 密切合作制作

音乐，

他在上学时发布了他的第一首单曲

，

并迅速积累了超过 100

万个流媒体 世界各地的平台

他聚集了许多业内人士的兴趣

并签署了创纪录的

交易

与澳大利亚的主要

唱片公司之一的托马斯也全职加入了同

一家公司

，虽然我们很遗憾看到汤姆去，但我们

相信学校在那里可以

提高

学生和教职员工的行业能力，

看到教育不仅仅是

一个 - 千篇一律的努力

，而不是

用一个冷酷的分数来衡量成功的东西

，将一个人类孩子与其他每个人类孩子进行比较，

忽略他们的技能，他们的经验，

他们的知识，他们的热情和他们的

追求音乐产业大学的经历

表明，有

是让

学生追求他们喜欢和热衷的事物的目的和积极影响，

以

发展自己的个人学习

途径，

由教师作为指导和

促进者提供支持

，虽然我们选择音乐作为

载体，但没有理由 这个模型

不能应用于舞蹈或戏剧

电脑游戏或编码事实上我们

目前正在开发

一项创新 创业型校园

教育不应该归结为

一所学校，教育系统应该

是为学生

提供知识和技能，让

他们过上

充满激情和目标的有意义的生活，

而不是一刀切 努力

你