What happens to our education system after COVID-19? Who knows. Teachers, for one, certainly don’t. Perhaps, that’s the problem with our system.  What we do know is that teachers won’t be left to their own devices – even though we are ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Think you’ve got it tough sitting at home watching the news, rationing toilet paper and worrying about the future? Try being a current Queensland year 12 student.  If you are one of the state’s 50,000+ year 12 students, you must ...

Many Australian schools are now experiencing the reality of school closures and remote learning measures for many weeks or even months to come. They will need to assess whether their current infrastructure can support scalable remote earning.                                                                                                           With students ...

When the coronavirus first emerged in China's Wuhan province, local authorities were slow to react and suggestions of a lack of transparency and cover-up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were widespread. Here, too, in South Australia the Education Minister, ...

Community angst, concern and stockpiling in the wake of COVID-19 hasn’t been pleasant. One positive, however, is a renewed emphasis on good hygiene and how washing your hands can help prevent germs from spreading. We all need to learn and ...

We all have to eat. This fact of life is non-negotiable and it applies to every living creature on earth. Just like every animal and plant, humans require certain survival skills, just like mammals who teach their babies which plants ...

When English and Music teacher Michael Lawrence visited Finnish schools in 2017, many teachers asked him why Australia used a test like NAPLAN to assess students, particularly young ones. For them, education is all about learning, not testing. The ultimate ...

The year in review is available on the podcast above or you can read the summary below.  Education is not just important to us for what is does – educating our youth for their future – it’s also important, almost ...

Just as the concept of flexible learning spaces revolutionised how we think about our classrooms, the concept of collective teacher efficacy, or CTE, is changing the way we approach professional development. For anyone who is missing this particular acronym from ...