2025 is just around the corner
Photo by Anna Louise “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is ...
The intersection of education and community
Image: Jonathan Borba “For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, ...
Catching the morning star!
Image: Torie Roman “Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also ...
International Day of Tolerance 16 November
Image by Alexander Grey “The highest result of education is tolerance.” Helen Keller UNESCO’s Member ...
Term 4 = 10 weeks, 70 days, 1680 hours
Image: Clmcdk Fejcn “Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right.” ...
World Teachers Day 25 October
Photo By: Mikhail Nilov “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to ...
Spring into the Equinox
Image: Dyana Wing So “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ...
Literacy Across The Spectrum
Image: Greg Rosenke “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything ...
International Day of Charity (5 September)
Image: Joel Muniz “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in ...
Happy Birthday (Horses for Courses)
Photo by Amy Humphries “Every birthday is like a step you take. You have to ...
Mid – Winter Blues
Image: Annie Spratt “A good teacher is like the rising sun that comes to fill ...
Semester 2 is coming!
Image: Oleksandr P “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If ...
EOFY – What does this mean for teachers?
Image - Mikhail Nilov “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” Claus Moser What ...
Planning for Personal Growth
Image By Jill Wellington “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the ...
Star Wars Day/World Labyrinth Day (May 4)
Image by Ksenia Chernaya “Life is a kind of labyrinth, with all its twists and ...
The Work of Teachers and School Leaders
Photo by Arthur Krijgsman “You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. ...
Earth Day April 22 ‘PLANET VS. PLASTICS’
Photo - Rui Stenio “If every day was Earth Day, we wouldn’t be in the ...
What are you doing to support Gender Equity?
Photo - Ksenia Chernaya “True confidence is infectious.” Ann Friedman The SHINE theory is used, ...
International Womens’ Day (March 8)
Photo By Priscilla Du Preez “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong ...
Celebrating Harmony Week
Photo By - Hannah Busing “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's ...
Are all schools the same?
Photo By - Ksenia Chernaya “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. ...
2024 Doesn’t have to be a personal ‘Ground Hog’ day
Photo By - Stas Ostrikov “The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our ...
School, already …
Photo By - Ron Lach "Rest when you are weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your ...
What would it be like to be a Principal?
Photo by Mart Production Teachers might feel the relief as the final, end of year ...
How will improved salaries address the complexities of schools to retain and attract teachers?
Photo by Melissa Walker-Horn "Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs; they're building our ...
United Nations Day 24 October
Photo by Jason Leung "The United Nations is like a spade; it is not self-operating. ...
Teachers Make a Difference
Photo by Max Fischer "One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change ...
Will the salaries agreement come at the cost of teacher workload?
Photo by Karolina Grabowska “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to ...
Celebrating the Summer Equinox
Photo by Photo by Jordan Elliott "Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night’s ...
Professional and Personal development are two parts of the whole.
Photo by Photo by Brad Barmore "What lies behind us, and what lies before us, ...
School Holidays or Planning for next term?
Photo: Olia Danilevich "A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the ...
I remember the 3-term year!
Photo - Museums Victoria “As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of ...
What makes an ideal team player?
Photo - Pixabay “Collective efficacy creates a self-sustaining cycle: The belief that we can make ...
Semester 1 – nearly there!
Photo by Alexander Dummer “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to ...
Life Long Learning (LLL)
Photo - Andrea Piacquadio Professor Pierre Vellas (Toulouse University) coined the phrase ‘University of the ...
What really matters?
Photo - Andrea Piacquadio German philosopher Herbart (1806) believed that the mind was the sum of ...
Teaching is more than data entry
Photo by Artem Podrez “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away ...
The Promise of Elections
“The ability to read, write, and analyse; the confidence to stand up and demand justice ...
Professional Goals
‘Practice design, not decoration: Don’t just make pretty talking points. Instead display information in a ...
Taking a Breath – Managing The Start Of The School Year Rush and Strategies For A Healthy Work Life Balance
How has the year started for you? Inspiring professional learning to start the year? Social ...
Goals for Growth. Importance of professional learning and self-growth
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." Albert Einstein AITSL describes ...
Recharged and ready to go. Starting the year with a self-care plan
Teachers look forward to summer breaks as much as students - maybe even more than ...
Summer Days…
The perennial media cries of 'all' the school holidays and teachers working daylight hours, not ...
Reflecting on your successes this year
December 1 is the 335th day of the year and the first day of Summer. ...
21st Century Learners
"Everything changes and nothing remains still…and you cannot step twice into the same stream."Heraclitus Education ...
Take a moment for yourself
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts ...
Term 4 is here! Professional learning, planning for 2023 and self-care
Racing toward summer holidays, rest, and recovery.Time to take a breath. Family, friends, and a moment ...
How often do you think about reading for pleasure?
“Reading is a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I don't read to learn, I ...
Reading for pleasure (why it is important)
Roberts (2010) argues that leisure is an important part of modern industrial societies. The time ...
Why I should leave the laptop at school this weekend?
Hewlett-Packard was one of the pioneers of portable computers, releasing a laptop in 1987. Soon ...
Term 3, but who is counting?
It is almost unimaginable that the school year once spread across 2 and then 3 ...
Accreditation v Compliance
Colin Thompson tells the story about the Puzzle duck who was once asked by a ...
Why does workload matter?
Schools are dynamic and ever-changing. Just when you think you are on top of one ...
How to handle difficult conversations in the workplace
Last month I had a phone call from a friend wanting my advice as they ...
Stop being busy and start being efficient
Our team of leadership coaches has the pleasure of spending time with 100’s of school ...
Why Perspective is Important in Building High Performing Teams
When I began our organisation I researched everything I could on high performing teams, both ...
High performing schools and their leaders: The secret we discovered!
Over the past 4 years I have worked with hundreds of schools and thousands of ...
How we started helping teachers with feedback
I made a decision to leave my tenured University job and join a start-up back ...