One of the many strengths of effective school leaders is their ability to calmly navigate uncertain and unstable times. The pandemic is a disruption that has tested us all with different challenges every day. It has forced our education system ...

Across the country, states and schools are in varying degrees of lockdown learning and as we are well into this second wave, what are the lessons we have learnt from Home-learning 2.0? For starters, many parents still feel underprepared and ...

A Victorian principal who allegedly encouraged students to attend school despite lockdown restrictions has been slammed as “irresponsible”. Visibly angry Education Minister James Merlino tore into Fitzroy Community School principal Timothy Berryman on Tuesday after an outbreak at the independent ...

Laureate professor at the University of Melbourne John Hattie presented a paper last month to the Victoria Education State Principals Conference, highlighting the effect of remote learning on school communities. Hattie's presentation focused on a number of topics, including the ...

In multiple meta-analysis and research studies, highly respected education researcher John Hattie (2009, 2018), ranked a range of influences and their effect size on student achievement.  At the top of this list was the student-teacher relationship and the effect of ...

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 ...

A team of international education researchers has released a study that details the challenges performing arts teachers and their students face during periods of lockdown and remote learning. The study, led by Associate Professor Susan Davis of CQUniversity Australia and ...

People living in Greater Sydney will be in lockdown until at least July 30 as the NSW government battles to contain the city’s outbreak of Covid-19. As 97 new cases of community transmission were announced on Wednesday, NSW Premier Gladys ...

NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos warned these are “trying times for teachers” as Sydney’s lockdown continues and term three kicks off in remote learning mode.  Speaking to the ABC on Monday night, Gavrielatos welcomed the news that 10,000 teachers ...