Posts by Rochelle Borton

Photo by Photo by Jordan Elliott “Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night’s hallucinations and the non-being of light’s judgments.” Michel Foucault School leaders have the profile in the community, and all the responsibly for all things in, around and of the school. Policies spew from tired printers, phones scream for attention, and…

Photo by Photo by Brad Barmore “What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. When was the last time you thought about something in your life that you have made a conscious effort to improve, for example, increasing exercise by going for…

pexels-olia-danilevich-5088188 “A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others.” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Can you imagine a school year without holidays? The screams of teachers and school leaders would echo around the school fence. To be fair, the roar of workers in other industries would be just as loud.…

Photo – Museums Victoria “As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.”John Battelle In the time of the 3-term year, the winter vacation was always very welcome. The coughs and sniffles of the staffroom, student absences and half-year reports crowded the…

Photo by Alexander Dummer “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”Malcolm X Education is all too often referred to as ‘the business of education. Business, measured on a Profit/Loss statement or as a unit of productivity?’ If education describes the sum of many parts i.e.,…

Photo – Andrea Piacquadio Professor Pierre Vellas (Toulouse University) coined the phrase ‘University of the Third Age’ (U3A) in 1973. Aimed at older students, usually aged 55 years or older, this simple model of leaning has expanded into countries around the world. In the context of schools, professional and personal is not simple. It is…

German philosopher Herbart (1806) believed that the mind was the sum of all ideas which entered one’s conscious life. He emphasized the importance of both the physical and the human environment in the development of the mind. To Herbart, ideas were central to the process. To this point, what really matters in planning for a healthy…

Photo by Artem Podrez “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”B.B. King Education has an important social, industrial, and democratic purpose. The overt political influence on pedagogy in pre-schools through to tertiary education systems is changing the work of schools. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) states…

“The ability to read, write, and analyse; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; the qualifications and connections to get your foot in the door and take your seat at the table — all of that starts with education.” Michelle Obama Every election campaign brings with it funding commitments, reforms and smiling…