Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
Australia’s most forward-thinking schools are already stepping forward—have you secured your place? As nominations continue for this year’s 5-Star Best Schools, The Educator is once again…
By Kelsey McCallum At a time when teachers are under tremendous pressure to deliver test scores but are concerned about the lack of…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
Beyond the Classroom: How Esports Spaces Double as Learning Hubs – YouTube Watch On Either watch above or listen/download below. For school districts…
Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly…
Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
When there’s a bug going around the school, teachers are usually the first to know—and the first to catch it. But not only…
MORE THAN COPING Life in a time of war is difficult and often tragic, but thinking of others has helped the students at…
Qualitative feedback also suggests our approach is beginning to have an impact in important ways. One secondary teacher reduced report writing time from…
From labs to learning laboratories When lab work is reimagined as an opportunity for questioning, exploration and reflection, science becomes far more engaging…
Why regeneration? Why now? The dominant leadership model in many schools still revolves around performance: outputs, outcomes, evidence. But the global conversation is…
ONCE UPON A TIME For Giles Abbott, the ancient skills of creating and telling stories are life-enhancing and can be used in any…
One in five children across Australia lives with chronic pain – and while their suffering often goes unseen, its impact can echo through…
Agencies and safer recruitment Effective safer recruitment needs training. We work with the Safeguarding Alliance and are currently in the important process of…
This Fall, Emanata, the young adult graphic novel imprint of Conundrum Press, will publish Quiet Crossings, a poignant and visually rich debut by…
Mr Lauf’s Café Classroom Sipping an expresso in a trendy coffee shop, Kyle Lauf started to plan a radical makeover for his classroom. …
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK TAKER What makes an educator who loves his work leave the safety of salaried teaching? In Pete Milne’s case it was…