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 For Education Leaders
Beyond Nope... Deepening Invitational Education  Invitational Education is known to provide a spark to rekindle the positive can-do spirit needed to renew a school's deeper purposes and provide systematic strategies to keep things going. However, an evolving theory of practice needs continual examination and reflection or else it can get stuck in a world that is not always wonderful, sometimes threatening, and so does not always feel good. Without reflective, theoretical, renewal, Invitational Education can be unintentionally calling forth the NOPE (naive optimism, pessimistic entrenchment) downward spiral. Read more Setting Student Teachers Up for Success  Student teachers can complete a course and arrive at schools underprepared for what is a challenging line of work and stressed young teachers tend to lose motivation and leave the profession. Teens Scrolling to Sleep  It looks like Instagram and Youtube sessions create a distraction from troubling thoughts and positively affect teenagers’ ability to get to sleep. How Can We Make STEM More Approachable at School?  As a woman in a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field, I usually fall into the gender minority at meetings or customer interactions. While I have seen a shift in the tech industry over time, such as support networks for women and inclusive hiring practices, there’s still a long way to go. Being a mother of a ten-year-old daughter, it is abundantly clear to me that equity starts early. Consent Matters  The Australian curriculum now supports ‘respect’ which is good. Academic papers on gender equity proliferate. Schools have CONSENT programs and tick the boxes. But do they reach their male young adult audience? Are they listening? Focussed? Or are they on their devices as teachers instruct? Elvis, Effort, Education, Success and Neuroscience  Austin Butler totally committed himself to portraying Elvis, and even though the filming concluded some time ago, there are occasions when Mr Butler continues to present the voice of the late King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, with many still saying that his ongoing use of the voice of Elvis voice is “cringe”. From a brain plasticity and neuroscience perspective, Mr Butler is proof positive of intensive effort and repetition changing the brain. Slovenia to host 2023 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad  The 2023 European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) Australian team has been named with four talented mathematicians heading to Slovenia to compete from 13-19 April 2023. 
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