Most parents and school leaders have the same desire: to ensure children’s needs are matched with the best possible teaching. Victorians are in yet another lockdown. School education has been disrupted once again for more than 1 million children. Stress,…
Month: May 2021
The Green Thing
Source Unknown Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment. The woman apologized to the young girl…
EVENTS
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Every school year, you put in place your well thought out plans and strategies, aiming for the best possible outcomes for the staff, students and families in your school community. And every year, the realities of an overcrowded…
The First Schools
It has been said that the very first public school began in 459BC. It was the ‘house of the book’ or the ‘house of the teacher’, and it was established in Jerusalem by a Jewish scribe and priest, known as…
You’re paid to teach. Aren’t you?
A teacher can always spend another year refining practice. A student doesn’t have the same luxury of learning time. Some of you are spending way too much time on things that don’t really matter. In all seriousness, when unions continue…