Parents and families continue to be hamstrung by inefficiencies and lack of accountability in Australian schools. Despite billions of dollars of annual spending, on everything from buildings, curriculum reviews and research to teacher wellbeing programs, additional tutors and computers, the…
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Are schools providing maximum value?
With just a few weeks before Victorian schools start their end of term holiday, or ‘vacation’, there’s a timely question we need to ask: Are schools providing maximum value? More than 2,260 schools, some of them with state-of-the-art facilities and…
Communicate and Innovate
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,…
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…
Responsibility: The Consequence of Freedom
Personal freedom! It’s one’s power, or right, to act, speak, or think as one wants. It’s a fundamental principle in many societies – past, present and, presumably, future. Or is it compromised to some extent by the personal freedom of…
I am, you are, we are…?
Like him or not, President Trump has not wavered from his commitment: America First. His determination to build a wall to keep illegal aliens out was scorned by many. Today, COVID-19 has people around the world living behind designated walls –…
The Corruption of Understanding: The Inequality of Meaning
Ideas and concepts are described in words, to create meaning. When the use of words or expressions is changed from the original, meaning changes. Unless there is shared agreement and acceptance, understanding can be corrupted. Take for example the word sick.…