It would be of no surprise that finding and maintaining meaningful employment or study for young people with a disability has not always been a priority in the past.  But with the increased awareness of human rights in the modern ...

(Click here to read Pt 1) Total behaviour Total Behaviour is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling and physiology. Glasser maintains that individuals have considerable control and choice over the acting and thinking components of their total behaviour; ...

The impact of COVID-19 on students In 2020, COVID-19 caught students, teachers, schools and education systems off guard with the global pandemic, disrupting the education of 1.5 billion students across 188 countries. The effect of the pandemic on the wellbeing ...

Teaching young people how to have respectful relationships is one of the most important things we can do as educators. But without a comprehensive understanding and nuanced approach to the issue, conversations around consent, respect, and relationships can become fraught ...

We are all continually making choices. All choices have consequences. Children and students and their developing brain and mind need to be educated about choices and consequences. In the attempt to understand the world, the brain and mind of children ...

Brendan James Murray is haunted. Well, to be grammatically correct, his school is haunted, but Brendan is tormented by the ghosts that wander the halls. The ghosts of children with unfulfilled potential, ghosts of others who couldn't be reached and ...

Over half of children with mental health disorders have trouble accessing the medical help they need, according to new research. Canadian researchers have found that one in eight children suffer from a mental health disorder and only 44.2 per cent ...

With Sydney schools moving to home learning once again, and COVID-19’s highly contagious Delta strain making the possibility of other states following in the coming weeks, jaded teachers must adapt their lessons for online delivery. For many teachers, this means ...

The downward trend in Australian school student scores in tests such as NAPLAN, PISA and TIMSS has understandably caused concern among Australian educators, policymakers and the media. The push to remedy this trend is driving interest in pedagogies differing from ...

When the Australian Curriculum was introduced in 2008, it was lauded as a world-class curriculum that would not only ensure consistency among the states and territories, but be inclusive enough for every child – including those with disabilities.  Over a ...