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Overcoming bias

The Matthew Effect: School boundaries, school funding and resources, and school staff Belief drives behaviour.

Ray Boyd, Principal, West Beechboro Primary School (Independent Public School), Dr Neil MacNeill, Principal, Ellenbrook Primary School (Independent Public School)

Get positive

HSC success is all in the mind A positive mindset is powerful, achieving one requires structure.

Connectivism

The Clarkson Recovery Mission post–COVID-19 – Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in a Professional Learning Community 2020 has been a watershed, a change that has been unforeseen and dramatic due to COVID-19. At Clarkson, we began to conceptualise how to lead our school out of this crisis situation.

John Young, Principal

Mental health

Returning students' mental health needs monitoring A comprehensive online resource to help children to stay mentally healthy is now live.

Inclusion

New online platform to support the autistic in classrooms https://www.inclusioned.edu.au/inclusionED is a new online professional learning community helping the inclusion of students on the autism spectrum.

Refugee inclusion

Volunteer English teachers are helping refugees overcome social isolation English skills are helping refugees to succeed.

$30k prize pool

Australia's best early childhood educators awarded Nominations open for the 2020 HESTA Early Childhood Education & Care Awards, $30k pool.

Education targeted

Securing the virtual education sector In 2019, the education sector was rated as one of the top sectors targeted with ransomware attacks; a statistic that is likely to continue to increase

Scott McKinnel, ANZ Country Manager at Tenable

AI proctor

How AI supervised remote exams make assessment possible As education contends with remote delivery, the question of how to supervise examinations needs to be addressed.

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Recess rethought

Recess key to reintroducing children to schools It’s crucial to allow soft skills to develop in the playground but so is doing it safely.

Hands-free

New hands-free door opener aids back to school hygiene Touching an unsanitary door handle after washing his hands irritated XUNO school management software CEO Kiki Tanousis ... so he did something about it.

Hidden gifts

Beyond the worksheet: creativity and resilience in online learning The ‘new normal’ of online learning from home is stressful for parents juggling work and supervision and intimidating for teachers

Tanya Rao is a teacher, writer and soon-to-be mother

Visible learning

How do you know they’ve learnt? IanWorley was appointed principal of Quirindi High School in July of 2016 and an early decision after he had settled in was to implement a three-year Visible Learning School Improvement Process.

Hard for young disabled

Young disabled face more mental health concerns and are often bullied Young disabled are more likely to report mental health concerns and are twice as likely to have experienced bullying.

Home advantage

Covid-19 and home learning: Metro students more likely to get live teaching The educational divide has been starkly obvious during Covid-19 and home learning.

Selina Samuels Chief Learning Officer, Cluey Learning

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