The phone on my Principal’s desk rang and I didn’t even get the opportunity to say “Hello”. “Get down here now!” shrieked my panicked Year 5 teacher, an educator usually calm and highly competent. In the background I could hear ...

I’m often asked why I advocate so fiercely for restorative practices. After all, its detractors are many and they certainly seem a fervent lot too.   So, before I answer that question of why, I actually think it’s important to address ...

 EducationReview · 2020: Looking back and moving forward in education - Adam Voigt - Episode 1 Education, like many sectors in 2020, was severely disrupted in several states and territories, with lockdowns, border closures and remote learning models all ...

I looked through the window of one of my Year 3 classrooms at my school to see Brayden. He was crying, frozen in a combination of anxiety and pure fear. It’s not what any principal wishes to see in their learning ...

Practice makes perfect, or so they tell us. And so, it astounds and troubles me to my core that we continue to raise kids in homes and schools where the art of lying is something that’s practiced so heavily that our ...

“Look, why don’t you ask your teacher?” It was the exasperated lament of generations of parents frustrated by the endless and incessant questioning of their own children as they navigated homework, or even as they just wondered something banal out ...

If you’ve ever been part of education circles in the Northern Territory, the name Adam Voigt is widely recognisable. Having spent a lot of his professional life teaching there, he worked at a range of schools and became a well-respected ...