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Report cards’ report card: showing potential, but with room for improvement

Teachers and parents are dissatisfied with aspects of the way report cards communicate student achievement

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

Schools adapt in the face of adversity

Catastrophic bushfire conditions have disrupted so many lives with damage to property and loss of life. Major school events and…

4 years ago

Bushfires can make kids scared and anxious: here are 5 steps to help them cope

Research shows somewhere between 7% and 45% of children suffer depression after experiencing a natural disaster.

4 years ago

Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That’s why we use the whole language approach to teaching it

Good readers use a full repertoire of skills, each dependent on the other. And a whole language approach to teaching…

4 years ago

PRINCIPAL SPEAKS: Lead School Improvement by building the capacity of all staff

Principal McDermott describes how, since the implementation of this model, his school has seen a significant increase in interest from…

4 years ago

Public schools excluded from $10m drought relief

“Under the Morrison Government 99 percent of public schools won’t reach the minimum funding benchmark..."

4 years ago

Bushfires prompt mental health resource for schools

As of Wednesday, approximately 154 schools remain non-operational in fire-affected areas. 

4 years ago

Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for ‘difficult’ students?

It is no wonder children with disabilities are over-represented among the tens of thousands of Australians who leave school before…

4 years ago

Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read

40% of children manage to learn to read without explicit and systematic phonics instruction due to a confluence of biological…

4 years ago

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