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For Education Leaders

Focus areas to develop effective schools

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The seven areas schools can identify and work on to create happier, collaborative and effective environments that foster student and staff satisfaction. Read more

Video gaming design hacks PE class

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Flinders University’s Associate Professor Shane Pill has recently undertaken research looking at the intersection between teaching PE, and video games.
   He found both rely on problem solving and using the principals of game design to structure PE curriculum could create agile thinking in students and an ability to stick it out with something that is sophisticated, complex and involves repeated failure.
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Prominent alums give back to public schools

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Some of our most famous and distinguished people came out of public schools and The Acacia Program is an initiative to enable alumni of Australian public schools – the Acacia Fellows – to give back through scholarships, mentoring and advocacy.
   Acacia will nurture public school students by creating a network of alumni to support them, while documenting success stories out of public education to demonstrate the value of public education. Read more

Creating positive conversations

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All too often, many conversations that we have with each other fall short of being built on meaning, purpose and substance. We engage in conversations that not only fail to draw in the person we are speaking to, but also retain their attention for longer than that of 35 seconds.
   It's far too easy to blame the busyness of the day, or mayhem of that particular moment.
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The hidden educational benefits from an agile IT environment

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The use of technology throughout a range of services and institutions has led to countless opportunities and improvements – and the education sector is no different. For schools specifically, it has provided a wide variety of advantages, including speeding up the process of admin work, such as marking attendance and grades, creating a direct line of contact between parents and teachers, or making it easier for students to access class material. Read more

NIDA Open launches Equity Program to foster disadvantaged new creatives

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Finance, geographical location and school can prevent a young person from experiencing the rush of performance so the National Institute of Dramatic Art's Open program is offering over $50,000 worth of complimentary tuition in 2021 to help young people and adult emerging artists who are experiencing financial or other disadvantage.
   Often it takes just one open door to unleash the passion and empower the imagination of a young or emerging artist. Read more

Using multiple fraction representations to build a foundation of success in mathematics

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The teaching of fractions is often identified as the point in primary school instruction when the “wheels tend to fall off’. Zoltan Dienes, the Hungarian mathematician and learning theorist promoted the use of the full range of resources that collectively show the many features of a single mathematics concept. This raises the question: what is the ‘full’ range of materials we need to teach common fractions?
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