Executive Summary:
With Vivi’s wireless screen mirroring, De La Salle Catholic College Caringbah has been able to deploy a combination of digital and online learning to help achieve their academic goals.
Background
De La Salle Catholic College Caringbah is a Catholic secondary systemic boys’ school in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Founded by the De La Salle Brothers in 1958, the school is in the process of expanding from a Year 7-10 School to a Year 7-12 School (ages 12-18), enrolling approximately 550 students. The small school size allows for experimentation and innovation in terms of teaching and learning strategies, and they deploy a combination of digital and online learning to support their Explicit Teaching model.
Challenge
When deciding on the right technology to support its educational goals, De La Salle faced several challenges. At the school, no two classrooms were the same. This meant any solution would need to adapt to a variety of classroom setups and teaching styles. Teachers wanted flexibility for how they delivered lessons, whether through front-facing instruction or more interactive, multi-focal layouts.
Supporting the school’s Explicit Teaching model was also critical, blending digital and online learning strategies with a strong emphasis on writing, literacy, and numeracy development. Additionally, the integration of Vivi with ClickView offered new opportunities for dynamic, content-rich lessons. The school had to balance emerging tech trends with best practices in pedagogy, ensuring that both teachers and students could navigate the digital world effectively while maintaining high teaching standards.
Vivi emerged as a key solution, bridging technology and pedagogy with seamless functionality and versatile applications.
Solution
De La Salle opted to deploy Vivi to support the flexible, personalized classroom setups desired by its teachers. Instead of mandating a uniform classroom layout, the leadership team invited teachers to select the furniture and configurations that best fit their teaching styles, resulting in diverse classroom designs throughout the school.
For instance, some teachers prefer a traditional setup with desks arranged in pairs or rows facing a single focal point, such as a smartboard or whiteboard at the front. Others favor more dynamic layouts with multiple focal points and clustered tables to encourage group collaboration.
With Vivi installed in every classroom, teachers can seamlessly project and connect to various display options, including interactive whiteboards, smartboards, interactive desks, and TVs, supporting different instructional approaches within the Explicit Teaching model.
Outcome
Support De La Salle’s Explicit Teaching Model
De La Salle’s pedagogy is built on the explicit teaching model, with Vivi playing a crucial role in its implementation. Vivi enables teachers to project instructional content directly to students, whether it’s a documentary, educational video, interactive whiteboard session, or a project worksheet, ensuring clear and effective lesson delivery.
Kate Hellyer, the Leader of Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment, notes the importance of Vivi in supporting their learning model, “We use a lot of online platforms. Our textbooks are via an online platform. Our delivery of Explicit Teaching in the classroom relies heavily on Vivi and being able to project out to the students. I think it’s about appreciating that you can have a whole toolbox, and the teacher can pick what’s most important at any given moment in time for engaged learning in the classroom.”
Flexible Use Across Different Classroom Set-ups and For Different Teaching Styles
At De La Salle, classrooms are designed for flexibility, with no fixed teacher desks anchored at the front. Teachers can choose to position a stand-up desk at the front or back of the room and, thanks to Vivi’s wireless connectivity, are free to move around as needed. This adaptability supports a wide range of teaching styles and personalized classroom layouts.
For instance, some teachers use two projectors simultaneously, displaying different content on the front whiteboard and the back wall. Others make use of strategically placed TVs, enabling dynamic and agile content delivery based on classroom activities and learning goals.
In addition to its versatility in the classroom, Vivi supports De La Salle’s broader educational focus. The school places a strong emphasis on writing, which is woven into daily learning routines. Apart from her Leadership role, Kate Hellyer also teaches English and highlights how Vivi enhances her lessons: “As an English teacher, I find Vivi to be an excellent platform for content sharing. It allows me to project model and student responses, fostering class collaboration through annotation and feedback. The built-in timer helps students manage their time effectively, while Vivi polls are a great tool for engaging review activities at the start and end of lessons.”
Beyond classroom learning, De La Salle uses Vivi for digital displays in high-traffic areas like the library, sharing announcements, sports updates, and event notices. School assemblies, parent forums, and staff meetings rely on Vivi, making it an indispensable part of the school’s daily operations.
Integration with ClickView
The integration of ClickView and Vivi has significantly enhanced classroom technology use by enabling teachers to cast any ClickView video to a Vivi-enabled display with a single click. This seamless functionality simplifies lesson delivery and supports smooth classroom management.
At De La Salle, teachers integrate the tools in various ways—some engage students directly on their laptops, while others facilitate whole-class learning through classroom displays. With ClickView’s added feature of embedding multiple-choice and short-answer questions into videos, educators can now create interactive, engaging lessons more efficiently by leveraging these platforms together.
