St Leo’s humbly blazing trail of success in innovation practice

Alan Jones

By Alan Jones
Community contribution / November 21, 2014

St Leo’s Catholic College in Sydney is a systemic secondary school in the Broken Bay Diocese that sits on the Upper North Shore ensconced by several of Australia’s most exclusive and high profile private schools.

Although on the opposite ends of the pecuniary spectrum, St Leo’s has humbly enjoyed success in innovation practice for some ...

This story appeared in the Term 4, 2014 edition of TechnologyEd.

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