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Expert advice for Year 12 assessments As Year 12 students enter the final leg of an unusually challenging school year the key to coping lies in being adaptable and realising that there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

Deep Work: Sunk on the treacherous shoals of time control in tough schools How school leaders, including teacher leaders developed while engaging in activities that would promote deep learning, and consequentially influence their leadership effectiveness. 

Talk-and-Walk-a-Thon to build connections and beat isolation Peer Support Australia’s annual Talk-and-Walk-a-Thon has returned during a time when 40 per cent of young people report concern for their mental health.

YouTube Scholarship to NIDA supports diversity YouTube has committed USD $100,000 (approximately AUD $135,000) worth of scholarships for three creative individuals to study at NIDA.

Why we need to teach students about skin cancer prevention It seems our young people have adopted our love for the sun, which can have serious consequences.

Screen time should be shared time Children are heavy users of screens and they need some guidance as to what is acceptable and where screen use starts to be negative.

Literacy rates are in decline. Let’s do something about it If you've been working in education over the last decade, you probably already know what the data is now telling us. Australia's high school students just aren't writing at the same level as they once were.

Mental health tools for Victorian secondary school students Free, tailored mental health and wellbeing tools to support students in a tough year.

No Failure Learning: growing the skills and knowledge in every student Most of the teachers and other staff in schools are motivated by the moral intent of doing goodfor the students in our care,  and  this  has pushed our exploration of no failure learning in our schools.

Australian students among the best in maths and informatics Olympiads Two teams of Australian high school students took gold, silver and bronze in the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and the 32nd International Olympiad in Informatics.

Autistic students respond badly to remote learning Autistic students look to be among the worst effected by isolation from their regular learning schedules.

APM for schools: overkill or overdue? Selected APM can make the school IT admin’s life easier, while increasing overall IT budget buy-in from the rest of the body.