What makes learning work? Catherine Saldutti from EduChange joins us to discuss STEM, learning competencies and much more as we consider the learners' pathways into their future.

Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education

About Catherine Saldutti

Catherine has over 32 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as
a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, evaluator, and edupreneur. She
founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally redesign the systems and structures that deliver
formal education. Using the Sciences of Learning and Development (SoLD), first principles,
bottom-up designs, and biomimicry, Catherine pioneered Open Learning Architecture with her
team of researchers, master educators, designers, and STEM professionals. This “system of
systems” includes: Sustainable Open Educational Resources (SOER) for regenerative
educational publishing; multi-year competency-based assessment; content that is "born
accessible", disciplinary literacy practices; data science and computational thinking, intentional
technology use for learning and instruction; and on-the-job teacher training programs. Catherine
speaks regularly to international audiences of educational thought leaders, the EdTech
community, administrators, teachers, and parents across the globe.

EduChange offerings
EduChange collaborates with schools to customize, deploy and gather implementation data.
The team deploys two proof-of-concepts globally:
the EduChange STEM+ Pathways program, a multi-year interdisciplinary science
program serving educators and learners aged 13-20
Concept Construxions®, a patented transdisciplinary pattern-recognition system that
helps learners construct multiple representations of concepts socially and collaboratively

Get in touch with Catherine

Open Learning Architecture Video

Open Learning Architecture: 10 Design Shifts (spread)

STEM+ Pathways for Ages 13-20: overview and website

Learn about Concept Construxions

Educator teams: discussion protocols

Catherine’s educational design blog

Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education

With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world!

https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/

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What makes learning work? Catherine Saldutti from EduChange joins us to discuss STEM, learning competencies and much more as we consider the learners' pathways into their future. Hosted by <a href="https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/team/ben-newsome/">Ben Newsome</a> from <a href="https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/">Fizzics Education</a>
About Catherine Saldutti
Catherine has over 32 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, evaluator, and edupreneur. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally redesign the systems and structures that deliver formal education. Using the Sciences of Learning and Development (SoLD), first principles, bottom-up designs, and biomimicry, Catherine pioneered Open Learning Architecture with her team of researchers, master educators, designers, and STEM professionals. This &ldquo;system of systems&rdquo; includes: Sustainable Open Educational Resources (SOER) for regenerative educational publishing; multi-year competency-based assessment; content that is "born accessible", disciplinary literacy practices; data science and computational thinking, intentional technology use for learning and instruction; and on-the-job teacher training programs. Catherine speaks regularly to international audiences of educational thought leaders, the EdTech community, administrators, teachers, and parents across the globe.
EduChange offerings EduChange collaborates with schools to customize, deploy and gather implementation data. The team deploys two proof-of-concepts globally:
<ul>
<li>the EduChange STEM+ Pathways program, a multi-year interdisciplinary science program serving educators and learners aged 13-20</li>
<li>Concept Construxions&reg;, a patented transdisciplinary pattern-recognition system that helps learners construct multiple representations of concepts socially and collaboratively</li>
</ul>
<a href="mailto:catherine@educhange.com">Get in touch with Catherine</a>
<a href="https://videos.educhange.com/ABOUT+-+Open+Learning+Architecture.mp4">Open Learning Architecture Video</a>
<a href="https://educhange.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Open-Learning-Architecture-spr-EduChange.pdf">Open Learning Architecture: 10 Design Shifts (spread</a>)
<a href="https://educhange.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/EduChange-STEM-Overview-4pi.pdf">STEM+ Pathways for Ages 13-20: overview</a> and <a href="https://educhange.com/intsciwhat">website</a>
<a href="https://educhange.com/ccxwhat/">Learn about Concept Construxions</a>
<a href="https://educhange.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/EduChange-Open-Learning-Architecture-Discuss-Protocols.pdf">Educator teams: discussion protocols</a>
<a href="https://educhange.com/blog/">Catherine&rsquo;s educational design blog</a>
Hosted by <a href="https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/team/ben-newsome/">Ben Newsome</a> from <a href="https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/">Fizzics Education</a>
With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice &amp; pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas &amp; challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world!
<a href="https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/">https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/</a>
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For educators and teachers working to make STEM amazing... no matter whether you're teaching science in grade 1, running a high school lab or delivering science shows in a museum, this education show helps you teach science & technology the way kids want to learn. The FizzicsEd Podcast brings in educators from across Australia and around the world to talk about tips, tricks, lessons and learnings they've had whilst working with students in the classroom and beyond. Hosted by Ben Newsome, a science teacher, author and founder of the multi-award winning science outreach team at Fizzics Education.

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For educators wanting to make STEM awesome! No matter whether you're teaching science in grade 1, running a high school lab or delivering  science shows in a museum, this show helps you teach science & technology the way kids want to learn.

The FizzicsEd Podcast brings in educators from across Australia and around the world to talk about tips, tricks, lessons and learnings they've had whilst working with students in the classroom and beyond. Hosted by Ben Newsome, a science teacher, author and founder of the multi-award winning science outreach team at Fizzics Education.