Winter has started. Cold, short days add to the challenge of a long second term for teachers, students and families in Victoria. First term is now a distant memory but anyone associated with schools in Victoria would be saying to ...

Picture a typical teen. Did you imagine them hunched over, with their head buried in a smartphone? Or perhaps you pictured them seated, with their eyes fixated on a laptop screen? If so, roughly 50 per cent of the time, you'd ...

What will today’s kindergarteners need to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century? This was the question the NSW Department of Education challenged a consortium of University of Sydney experts to unpack. In particular, the Department wanted the ...

It's a clash of two titans: Dr Robert Slavin versus Laureate Professor John Hattie. The former is an influential American education policy academic, the latter hardly needs an introduction in international education circles. In a blog post entitled 'John Hattie is wrong', ...

"...Both students and parents have high expectations for achievement, but exposure to persistent and repeated negative representations of indigeneity or Indigenous academic ability from teachers and the media leads to disengagement, de-identification and reduced wellness." This statement, by a group ...

Schools and districts around the world strive for a common goal: ensuring every child receives the quality education he or she deserves. Solution Tree Australia shares this goal and wants to help you make it a reality. Professional Learning that ...

The rapid and exponential growth of the internet over the past 40 years has changed the nature of society. Indeed, at the end of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the internet is our defining medium. This has ...

They may constitute only approximately 1.2 per cent of the population, but until recently, transgender individuals have been excluded from society. In a 2015 speech, former Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson said that of LGBTQI people, "the lingering and most extensive discrimination ...

American developmental psychologist Emmy Werner was one of the first people to ever use the term 'resilience'.  It came out of her landmark study of children from Kauai, Hawaii, from their birth in 1955 to their late teens, in the 1970s. At the ...

Much has been made of the inadequacy of careers advice in schools. Regardless, some young people simply know what they want to do for a living earlier than others. Erin, from Bondi in Sydney’s east, knew she wanted to be a ...