When I signed my first contract with the board of Moreton Bay College at the age of 37, I had no idea how much of my time as a principal would be devoted to my own leadership. I knew that ...

 EducationReview · Finnish education is coming to Australia | Michael Lawrence The last time I interviewed Michael Lawrence the experienced music and English teacher had just published his book Testing 3, 2, 1: What Australian Education Can Learn from ...

Working with remote and rural leaders has become an absolute joy for the Eduinfluencers team. The beauty and sometimes harshness of the locations is definitely part of it, but even more so we are spurred on by what we hear ...

Just as the concept of flexible learning spaces revolutionised how we think about our classrooms, the concept of collective teacher efficacy, or CTE, is changing the way we approach professional development. For anyone who is missing this particular acronym from ...

Australian teachers aren’t getting access to the professional development they need to tackle advanced ICT, teaching in multicultural settings and educating students with special needs. That was one of the takeaways of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) ...

Parents routinely roll their eyes any time a school announces a student-free professional learning day for its teachers. Many parents consider these days an inconvenience and struggle to see their purpose. High quality, continuous professional learning (as opposed to one-off, snapshot professional ...

In recent years, there has been ongoing discussion about whether mainstream primary and high school teachers are sufficiently prepared to fully implement the language components of the Australian Curriculum. Over the past decades, educators have successfully delivered the functional genre ...

The most passionate teachers are also enthusiastic learners; not content to let their practice become stale and always looking for ways to improve the outcomes of their students. Professional development is so important for these teachers who actively look forward ...

Teachers concerned about the mental health of students now have a new place to turn. Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard today launched Be You, a free resource that aims to better equip teachers and principals to nurture the mental health ...

Teamwork comes naturally to a school leader like Michael Battenally. The principal of Canberra’s Melba Copland Secondary School for the past decade, and an educator in the ACT system for the past 33 years, Battenally can also list on his ...