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 Nupur Bagoria Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement—and that’s completely understandable. Day-to-day classroom demands often leave little room…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
Repetitio est mater studiorum. Or to say it another way, repetition is the mother of learning. And while repetition sometimes gets a bad…
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…
In Australia, a staggering six in ten children experience maltreatment during childhood, while half of all young people report being targeted by hurtful…
By Nupur Bagoria With the right tools and products at your side, you can turn the chaotic transition from summer break back to…
Teachers everywhere are trying to figure out how to make artificial intelligence work for them in the classroom. Thankfully, Khan Academy has introduced…
Tired of your tried-and-true math routine? Chances are if you’re feeling the itch to incorporate new activities into your math time, your students…
I used to teach in a district where our staff was a mix of progressive and conservative teachers. Our students and their families…
Two years after the Disability Royal Commission called for urgent reform, Australian students with a disability continue to be excluded, bullied and denied…
Some educators assume it doesn’t matter which AI platform they use because the tools all perform similar tasks. Innovative educators know this is…
Australia’s two peak bodies for public school principals have joined forces to drive a new reform agenda aimed at lifting equity, wellbeing and…
How quickly we seem to forget how much we love our teachers. Don’t get me wrong. We do love them, especially during those…
Realistic forms of assessment Change need not be complex. The alternative forms of assessment are already here and practised widely. He foresees the…