Sunshine Coast Grammar School’s head of primary puts a premium on developing the ability to think effectively in all situations – for teachers and students. Paul Clegg trained as a primary teacher and spent 10 years as a classroom teacher ...

University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing, such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli found that principals who set clear strategic objectives ...

You could be forgiven for never having stopped and considered the prefixes ‘trans-‘ and, especially, ‘cis-‘, until fairly recently. Much of the developed world has been tumbling along without bothering too much about the complexities and fluidity of the gender ...

A leading business coach is urging principals to develop and flex their emotional intelligence muscles so they can alternate between being a leader and being a manager. Jeremy Carter, managing director of the Australian branch of multinational leadership coaching firm ...

Timetabling methods have shifted from blackboards that endlessly change, to pieces of cardboard with lots of coloured pins, to hundreds of post-it notes on a whiteboard, and now timetabling software. But one thing remains the same: school timetables can be ...

Inclusiveness should be integrated subtly into a school’s design, an architect has argued. Wayne Stephens, a partner at Melbourne architects ClarkeHopkinsClarke, said the best inclusive environments are those designed to be so “without it being very evident”. There is also no one-size-fits-all approach ...

The most important schooling need for gender-diverse children is an accepting culture – and that is created through basic awareness, an expert argued. Dr Elizabeth Riley, Sydney-based gender counsellor, said awareness should begin with educating staff. This should then trickle-down ...

Children need to spend two hours a day outdoors to combat the increasing risk of short-sightedness, new research has found. Short-sightedness – otherwise known as myopia or nearsightedness – is caused when light received by the eye doesn’t focus directly on the retina, but ...

Schools could soon become a prominent feature in Sydney’s skyline, the architects of the city’s newest high-rise school have argued. Parramatta’s upcoming 14-storey Arthur Phillip High School, with its adjoining Parramatta Public School, is the figurehead of the NSW Education ...

Education policy rhetoric pigeonholes private schools as wealthy and the public system as strapped for cash. But a new report from the Centre for Independent Studies has aimed to bust these stereotypes as far from reality. One School does not ...