Adam Voigt

Adam Voigt is the Founder & Director of Real Schools. Built upon years of experience as a successful Principal, Real Schools helps schools to build and sustain strong, relational School Cultures. A speaker of local and international renown, Adam has delivered a TED Talk and is the schools/education expert for The Project”.

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Adam VoigtTuesday, July 27, 2021
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Adam Voigt: Decision making made easier

One of the things that makes leading in schools difficult is a sense that you’re required to be all things…
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Adam VoigtWednesday, November 18, 2020
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EXCLUSIVE: The problem with cultures of privilege when you’re building a kid

Adam Voigt: "I’m so proud that we avoided the boastful, arrogant gimmickry that our highest fee-sucking private schools plaster across…
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Education

Adam VoigtTuesday, June 2, 2020
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PLD: “But it only works when there’s a relationship”

Adam Voigt on the benefits of "curly questions" from skeptical teachers...
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Education

Adam VoigtThursday, April 23, 2020
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Self-care with Adam Voigt: Is your glass half full or half empty?

We all face tough days or times. It’s a part of life, especially in schools, and especially for leaders. But…
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Administration

Adam VoigtWednesday, March 11, 2020
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Adam Voigt: R-E-S-P-E-C-T….find out what it means to me!

The likelihood of the brain responding with positive affect to respectful interactions is extremely high and can be very rewarding…
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Adam VoigtWednesday, January 29, 2020
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Advice for when your lesson goes wrong…

We have all had that day or that particular lesson that we just want to forget!
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Administration

Adam VoigtTuesday, January 21, 2020
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Being compassionate to students who reject it is hard, says Adam Voigt

There are students about to arrive into your care in 2020 who are going to test you.
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Education

Adam VoigtWednesday, November 27, 2019
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Adam Voigt’s flashback to being principal

Whether you’re a principal or a classroom teacher, it’s a timely reminder that our focus needs to be on how…
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Adam VoigtMonday, November 18, 2019
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Adam Voigt dissects ‘the new teacher’s job description’

Even if you’re new to this education caper, you can probably hark back to your own days as a student…
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Adam VoigtWednesday, October 16, 2019
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Adam Voigt: Let’s play chess, not poker

It wasn’t uncommon for my staff to attempt to fit another day's work during the evening. And I was guilty…
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Maintaining positive health and mental wellbeing in students is one of the key areas of concerns in schools. Research shows that children are bearing the brunt of mental health concerns triggered or exacerbated by the pandemic and the number presenting with mental health or emotional problems. Schools must find ways to stimulate positive environments for students across mental well-being, health, and safety.
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How students are helping to breathe new life into their schools

School transformations are incredibly exciting for teachers, parents and of course students, especially when the whole school community has spent months and often years planning, petitioning, and fundraising for the developments.
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How do you make a best-practice literacy intervention program even better?

In 2011, MultiLit launched MiniLit, an effective, evidence-based, small group intervention program, designed to support struggling readers in the initial stages of literacy up to Year 2.
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Achieving great professional learning in the age of COVID-19

As a high school teacher in an independent Sydney school, I experienced a great many professional learning sessions. Of all these sessions, it was after only a handful I left feeling legitimately energized, inspired, and empowered with skills or knowledge that would make a difference to my everyday teaching practice.
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Promethean solutions promote flexibility for schools

The Promethean State of Technology in Education Report 2021 recently revealed that interactive panels and interactive whiteboards are now Australia’s most commonly used classroom technology, with 99% of educators using them at least occasionally.
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The P.A. People celebrates fifty years!

It all started in the early 1960’s in a garage in suburban Enfield, NSW. What started back then as Christian Sound (incorporated as CS Services) has grown to be one of the most well respected and diverse Professional Audio and AV solution providers around…
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