Public schools are valuable assets. Most occupy prime real estate in central locations – ensuring ready access to students who live within reasonable proximity. Public schools are often seen as the heartbeat of their community. The local Church and the…
Schools face problems. The view that money – or more of it – is the universal solution creates a lot of confusion. The Gonski school funding model hasn’t disappointed in that regard. It has become less about an appreciation of…
Among the successful educational leaders with whom I work, there is one core group driven by compassion. They see their calling – to ensure all students are given every possible opportunity during their school life – as having few boundaries.…
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, when Edmund realises his villainous acts have returned to haunt him, he says, ‘The wheel is come full circle, I am here.’ (5, iii, 171) As an extremely motivated mature aged graduate, I had quite a bit…
Having spent 30 years passionately working in education and publishing, I am appalled at my capacity to succumb to the seduction of technology, and the self-inflicted embarrassment I suffer as a result. My personal library is home to hundreds of articles…
Has the National Safe Schools Framework been sabotaged? Schools are places of learning for students and also the workplace of teachers. Parents place their trust in schools, expecting a duty of care will be provided and their children educated to the highest…
‘Everyone is a friend’. This was one of two rules displayed in my classroom during my first year as a primary school teacher. I firmly believed that all of my students were capable of having a friendship with one another…
Do motivational quotes interest you? I have to admit, I’m a bit taken by them. Having read hundreds, there is one in particular that I am fond of: ‘Come to the edge,’ he said. They said, ‘We are afraid’. ‘Come to…