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 ...

With the announcement that the NSW lockdown has been extended for four more weeks and continually rising COVID-19 cases in the greater Sydney area, this years' HSC has been thrown further into chaos. Alongside the lockdown announcement, Premier Gladys Berejiklian ...

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 more 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 ...

**Updated 29 July 2021** Some Sydney students in their last year of high school will be given priority for the Pfizer vaccine, after the government revealed doses would be directed from other parts of the state to allow a return to ...

School‐aged children are being exposed to an increasing number of vaping and e‐cigarette videos on TikTok, prompting calls for more regulation of the social media platform. University of Queensland researchers analysed more than 800 videos featuring the modern smoking practice. ...

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 ...

A study into the experiences of school leaders during the first round of COVID-19 related school shutdowns in 2020 has found that those who engaged in community, communication and compassion-based responses were most successful in leading their school community through ...

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 ...