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Khya Brooks
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Khya has over 9 years’ experience teaching Geography in NSW public schools as a classroom teacher and as the head of a Social Science faculty. Through her teaching career, she has led the development and refinement of Geography programs that have resulted in a high value of Geography within the schools she teaches; evidenced by an ever increasing number of Senior Geography classes that produce excellent results.

Khya’s immense passion for the discipline of Geography has resulted in her contributing to the professional learning of others across the network in various ways. She was an author of the Powerful Geography books 1 and 2 for the NSW Stage 6 Geography course. She has also worked in resource development for NESA and the Department of Education for Geography in both 7-10 and Stage 6. Khya has presented lectures and workshops annually at the NSW Geography Teachers Association of NSW and ACT conference; providing professional learning on creative approaches to Geography unit development and learning activities, the use of AI in the Geography classroom, explicit teaching strategies for effective student evaluation and ways of formatively assessing student skill and knowledge acquisition within Geography. Khya has also written for the NSW Teachers Federation Centre for professional learning and has publications in the NSWACT Geography Teachers Association bulletin.

As a result of these contributions to the Geography teaching network, Khya received the prestigious NSW Geography Teachers Association of NSW and ACT Brock Rowe teaching award in 2024. She believes that Geography is a fundamental subject for students to learn about the complexities, challenges and opportunities for the future of our ever-increasing globalised world.