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 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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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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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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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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Education

Adam VoigtTuesday, August 6, 2019
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Adam Voigt: How we signal negative feelings in students

We do our students an awful disservice when our responses to wrong doing or even to negative feelings being experienced…
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After losing a Year 9 student to suicide, educator, Rachel Downie decided that she needed to find a way to support our young people to say something when things ‘aren’t right’. She discovered that in emergent situations, students often felt too frightened to come forward with possible life-saving information, due to their social expectations and Australia’s cultural acceptance of bullying. This led Rachel to developing Stymie – harm reporting without fear. Rachel was recognised for her work with young people at risk of harm, receiving the Queensland Australian of the Year Award in 2020 and she has an important message for educators… How can we challenge a conversation if we lack courage? It’s a powerful message given the revelations facing some schools about sexual assault and issues of consent. So how can education leaders address these issues? What role do you see schools playing in addressing concerning societal issues that play out in schools? It is extremely difficult at the moment to stand in front of students (thousands of them every week) and ask them to Say Something if they are seeing or experiencing harm, when in every corner of our society and at our highest levels of leadership, confidentiality, …
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State of Technology in Education Report 2021 reveals key edtech trends

Building on the insights of national edtech surveys conducted in 2019 and 2020, Promethean has launched the new State of Technology in Education Report 2021!
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International Conference on Thinking Returns to Melbourne for 2021 Headlined by Dr. Edward de Bono

The International Conference on Thinking (ICOT) is an internationally renowned cross-disciplinary event that connects a diverse group of trailblazers and disruptors from a range of industries and disciplines. The conference aims to help educators, academics, professors, and business professionals provoke, challenge, learn, and discuss the many forms of thinking and its application in creating new ideas and problem solving. ICOT is the world’s largest conference on the practice of thinking and is returning to Melbourne for the first time since 2005. The five-day programme runs from 4 – 8 July 2021 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, and for the first time in the conference’s history, ICOT 2021’s new hybrid model combines virtual and live elements to ensure participants can still meet, exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences and have greater connectivity across the globe. Headlined by renowned lateral thinking pioneer, Dr. Edward de Bono, ICOT 2021 participants will have the opportunity to hear from over 30 world class speakers across various disciplines in an inspiring five-day programme that includes keynotes and feature presentations, interactive workshops, challenge groups and offsite learning journeys. From machine learning to a travelling high school, to education and technology; the ICOT 2021 conference speakers span …
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National Education Summit Brisbane

The National Education Summit Brisbane is professional learning designed by Australian educators, for Australian educators. Hear from educational experts and connect with the Australian community via a series of 4 conferences and a free seminar program. All events are mapped to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers providing you with self-identified continuing PD.
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Bring the science of reading into your classroom with literacy programs and resources from MultiLit

Many teachers are now looking to incorporate the latest scientific research on how to most effectively teach reading into their professional practice, to get students off to a great start on their literacy journey. Leading Australasian literacy provider, MultiLit, publishes a range of evidence-based literacy support and intervention programs for use by primary and secondary schools. As a research initiative of Macquarie University, MultiLit’s publications and associated professional development are continually informed by an ongoing program of research, led by Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM. Established 25 years ago, MultiLit’s mission is to bring about major educational change so that far fewer children are left to struggle in school with inadequate reading and related skills, the skills essential for academic success in all areas. The most recent addition to MultiLit’s suite of programs is InitiaLit, a three-year whole-class initial instruction program, for students from Foundation to Year 2. In the context of a Response to Intervention framework, InitiaLit is a Tier 1 program, and provides the essential core knowledge and strong foundations for students to become successful readers and writers. Since its release in 2017, InitiaLit has been implemented by more than 500 schools throughout Australia. In 2020, InitiaLit–Foundation, InitiaLit–1 …
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ELTHAM College leverages the powerful integration capabilities of SALTO smart access control

ELTHAM College is an independent, non-denominational, coeducational day school that caters for around 700 students from kindergarten to year 12. Its main campus is in the outer Melbourne suburb of Research (so named during the 19th century gold rush, when a ‘re-search’ of the area found rich deposits) with Year 9 taught from its site in Melbourne’s CBD.
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