John Baker is the founder, president and chief executive of D2L (née Desire2Learn), the Canadian learning management system (LMS) provider responsible for the Brightspace brand of educational tools. This week, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, D2L is hosting a regional ...

An injection of early-career staff has helped principal Suzanne Fern build a solid foundation at St Aloysius primary. ‘We wonder’ is a phrase heard often around St Aloysius Catholic Primary school, Chisholm, where Suzanne Fern is foundation principal. The school ...

Scares at schools around the world have all been hoaxes so far, but they still wreak havoc on everyone in the community. It's the kind of chilling phone call that school administrators dread, and one that leaves them with little ...

School leaders and academics descended upon the University of Canberra to explore how exactly principals use their time. Cross-national Exploration of Principals’ Time use: Patterns, causes, and effects was funded by the American Educational Research Association, a network of academics with 25,000 ...

School building and refurbishment is now a booming industry in New Zealand and Victoria. And one architect said educators from both sides of the Tasman Sea are trading ideas for their pet projects. New Zealand’s last federal Budget allocated NZ$882.5 ($825.7 million) ...

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 ...