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 For Education Leaders
Evening the Playing Field - Schools as a Network  Working together; networking schools and sharing facilities beats scarcity and boosts efficiency. Read more A Cool Opportunity: Video Cross Between Students and Scientist in Antarctica  When a major windstorm with gusts of more than 200 kilometres per hour damaged special air sampling equipment in Antarctica, CSIRO senior research scientist Dr Ann Stavert packed her bags and made the journey to one of the world’s most remote research labs to replace it. Ann made the trip doubly valuable by taking some time to connect via a live video cross with her six-year-old daughter and more than 500 of her peers. Read more Embedding Trauma-informed Student Wellbeing Practices  There are many kinds of trauma and living with adversity born of structural inequity affects development like trauma does. Adversities like poverty, community violence, and racism cause traumatic stress, which impacts children’s development causing compounding inequity. NAPLAN Influences Teaching, Learning and Decision Making  NAPLAN has infiltrated everyday teaching and learning practices. Initially intended to identify students below minimum standards for literacy and numeracy and to target funding based on need, this has been overshadowed by NAPLAN’s covert impact on school decisions and classroom practices. The high-stakes test has become so embedded that teaching work and NAPLAN-oriented teaching work are indistinguishable. Read more Overcoming Teaching Challenges with Efficiency and Innovation  One of the best things about teaching is the ability to make a direct, positive impact on kids’ lives if given the opportunity. Take Victorian teacher Liam Benton from Kolbe Catholic College, who went the extra yards for an ESL student and turned her into the school’s highest-ever ATAR achiever. Another Year Done!  It has happened again, what was January has become December in an instant and we'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of you the best of the season and thank you for reading Education Today. We have already lined up features from some of the top education thinkers in the world for 2024 and our stalwart writers will continue to contribute their practice informed work. So we'll be back in the new year, scrappy, stubborn and as always open source. Cheers! Jeremy 
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