The scourge of coronavirus has placed an enormous strain on our educators and our education system. As a nation, we should have celebrated harder that teachers in all sectors were able to entirely re-imagine the learning experience for every single ...

The final part in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Ineffective teaching practices that increase cognitive load This method contrasts with ineffective teaching practices, which tend to increase ...

I looked through the window of one of my Year 3 classrooms at my school to see Brayden. He was crying, frozen in a combination of anxiety and pure fear. It’s not what any principal wishes to see in their learning ...

Even the most resilient adults at the moment are operating from a lowered window of tolerance and lowered threshold to cope and manage. This might manifest in anger that quickly arises, extreme emotions washing over you, or the inability to ...

Part 2 in this series on advancing handwriting, narrative writing and critical thinking with chalk will now introduce the reader to: Orthographic-integration In terms of developing skilled and efficient handwriting automaticity, and correlated creative narrative content, research undertaken by Suzanne ...

It’s hard not to be alarmed by the state of reading in Australia. Since 2000, our students have dropped from 4th to 17th place in the PISA survey of global reading results, and foreboding reports on the national state of ...

Write, erase; write, erase; write, erase. Practise, practise, practise, achieve. Repeat. Here we have the universal imperative actions of gross and fine motor skills and the power of sequence learning, which leads to robust handwriting skill efficiencies developing, with associated ...

Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our ...

Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear ...

With educational institutions now heavily reliant on information technology to deliver services for students, keeping core systems and data stores secure has never been more important. The challenge has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic as delivery of many education ...