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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 Priten Kadakia Soundararajan-Shah In the last few years, we have seen an increase in the number of technology solutions being proposed for…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
AI hype keeps getting bigger and the offerings more complex. It’s being pitched to schools from every direction, but what really matters when…
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…
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ReferencesErnst-Slavit, G., & Gottlieb, M. (2025). Academic Languaging: Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning. Corwin.Flores, N., & Rosa, J. (2015). Undoing appropriateness:…
IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and UNESCO have launched a global call for books to be included in their Collection…
Western Australia’s teacher workforce is fraying under a double whammy of burnout and rising classroom complexity, recent reports show. A recent ABC article…
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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…