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Sep 2014
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004 - Lea Waters on Positive Education -...

KRISTEN TRUEMPY
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Lea Waters, a positive education expert from the University of Melbourne will talk about why positive education is important, how wellbeing and performance are linked and what teachers interested in positive education can do to get started.

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