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 For Education Leaders
Resilience Through Dialogue: Why Talking it Out Matters in Education and Beyond  When students learn to engage with disagreement without humiliation, they develop coping skills and emotional regulation. Dialogic teaching has been shown to increase tolerance of uncertainty, interpersonal trust, and the ability to navigate difficult issues. Such students are less likely to retreat from conflict and more likely to see it as part of growth. This is not about shielding students from ideas but equipping them to meet ideas with confidence. Read more Systemic Problems in Maths Delivery Lead to Drop in Participation  With the number of students selecting higher-level maths subjects in the final years of high school steadily dropping for decades, research has discovered the reasons why and how these barriers are locking promising students out of in-demand jobs. Meeting Schools Where They’re at: How Wakakirri’s Beginners Program is Helping Time Poor Teachers  When the team behind Wakakirri, Australia’s national Story-Dance festival, began consulting with schools in recent years, one message came through clearly: teachers love Wakakirri, but time and resources are limited.  From Near Death to New Learning  In the middle of a life-threatening anaphylactic episode - gasping for breath, fighting not to suffocate - I came as close to death as anyone would ever want to be. For most people, the only thought would be: how do I not die? But I’m not most people. What ran through my mind wasn’t fear - it was my daughters. Not seeing them again. Not guiding them through life. Not teaching them. NSW Premier's Spelling Bee Winners  Year 4 Narellan Vale Public School student Finn McGhee and Year 6 Eastern Creek Public School student Svastik Biswas have won this year's junior and senior Premier's Spelling Bee rounds. Building Blocks for Success  School ReadY is an evidence-based program devised by The Y WA that has been rolled out across all 14 of its Early Learning Centres (ELC) across WA starting in April 2024. It is delivering learning experiences with notable results according to feedback from families. 
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