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Connect
Connect
Connecting schools boosts performance A peer group of schools that can exchange ideas and draw inspiration from each other’s experience has boosted the performance of the schools involved.
Space
Space
Five simple strategies for improving your students’ reading habits The real way forward is to find tangible strategies to establish and sustain an engaging reading environment for students.
Robert Tall, Literacy Coordinator at Waverley College
Home Camps
Home Camps
COVID-safe school holiday camps from home Kids activities provider Skills and Thrills has launch of its new Home Camps offering created during COVID-19 to help parents occupy their kids during school holidays while they work from home. 
Fail forward
Fail forward
Inspiring kids to fail: The entrepreneurial mindset for the future Becoming, and being, an entrepreneur is hard work, and a lot of it has to do with embracing failure as the catalyst for success.
Michael Holmstrom, CEO of STEM Punks
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs
$2,500 in prize money in First Pitch For Kids 2020 comp Young entrepreneurs pitch their ideas for the chance to win a generous cash prize.
Sick
Sick
Poor air quality has drastic effect on student learning A classroom with poor lighting or inadequate heating rarely goes unnoticed. But until recently, good air quality wasn’t on the radar of most Australian educators.
Dr Vyt Garnys and Prof Tony Arnel
Techniques
Techniques
Learning how to learn: Metaskills are higher-order skills that lay the foundations for learning Metaskills are higher-order skills that lay the foundations for learning and succeeding at almost anything in life. Essentially, skills that help us to acquire skills.
Steve Glaveski, author and entrepreneur
Amplified
Amplified
Frenemies can do the most harm – Peer Aggression and Wellbeing Study Bullying by close friends can be dismissed as horseplay, but when it becomes exclusion or rumour spreading the hurt is amplified.
Screening
Screening
Dystech screens for dyslexia with machine learning Australian startup Dystech has created Dyscreen, a simple to use but tech heavy screening app for dyslexia.
Psychology
Psychology
How teachers can engage students learning from home Teachers are very familiar with the challenge of keeping students engaged in the classroom, however keeping them interested and on task when they are learning remotely takes this challenge to a whole new level.
Sharon Turner, School Psychologist at Strathcona Girls Grammar
Security
Security
The state of cybersecurity in Australia’s education sector Cybercriminals only grow smarter as time goes on, and it seems that no one – no individual, company, or government – is ever prepared for the latest attack. Unfortunately, Australia is no different.
Jr School head
Jr School head
Wesley College names new head of junior school Mrs Jo Edinger is the new Head of Junior School at Wesley College in Perth, the school chose to promote a long term staff member.