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Sydney high schools — which will help your child the most academically?

Part 2: Educational value add: making the most of the students you have

6 min readNov 5, 2020

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Sydney high schools — which will help your child the most academically?

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Jesse Whelan

Sydney high schools — which will help your child the most academically?

Part 1: The role of socio-education advantage and HSC performance

8 min readOct 30, 2020

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Sydney high schools — which will help your child the most academically?

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Jesse Whelan

Australia it is time we expected a little more from our students

There are good reasons why we have minimum standards in many endeavours. It is time schools followed suit.

6 min readMay 18, 2020

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Australia it is time we expected a little more from our students

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Not everything needs to be a learning moment; Sometimes engagement is enough.

The difference between presenting, engagement and learning.

6 min readApr 27, 2020

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Not everything needs to be a learning moment; Sometimes engagement is enough.

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Jesse Whelan

An extra $15b was spent on government schools in the last decade — where did the money go?

Funding for government schools has increased substantially over the last decade. School funding is a contentious issue that many people…

7 min readFeb 3, 2020

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An extra $15b was spent on government schools in the last decade — where did the money go?

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Jesse Whelan

4 mindsets to improve learning for your children

I gave a talk recently at Woollahra Library titled How to transition your child into high school. As part of that talk I spoke about 4…

8 min readSep 21, 2019

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4 mindsets to improve learning for your children

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Jesse Whelan

What we learned from the first group trial of adapptED

TL:DR →We’re all busy, I get it. Here’s the summary of what happened

7 min readAug 14, 2019

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Performance scores between pre-test and post-test. Students on average improved by 8%.

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Jesse Whelan

ATAR demystified

As Term 2 draws to a close many year 12 students are looking ahead to the Trial HSC exams. At Sandbox Learning Australia many of our…

10 min readJun 26, 2019

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ATAR demystified

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Jesse Whelan

adapptED feature spotlight: How to connect a new student to your account

Have you just picked up a new tutoring student or have a new student join your classroom? Before you can start working with them on…

2 min readMay 22, 2019

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adapptED feature spotlight: How to connect a new student to your account

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Jesse Whelan

adapptED: set up and manage a parent account

Do you have a child using adapptED and want to check how they are going? You could ask them to log in and take you through their work…

5 min readMay 8, 2019

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adapptED: set up and manage a parent account

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Jesse Whelan

Jesse Whelan

EdTech entrepreneur, passionate about improving education impact through tech and research-driving practice. Former consultant and engineer. Harvard MBA.

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